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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In response to reading Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup , GE adopted Lean and built their Fastworks program around it.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Tim Kastelle

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

Focus on innovation not changing others – They were not expected to “make everyone innovative” or change company culture. CEOs who focus their attention on future events and external activities lead their firms to early adoption and invention of new technologies and greater and faster development of innovations. It can be done.

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The Case for Dual Innovation

Integrative Innovation

Evaluating breakthrough innovation cultures and organization s, BCG concludes in their annual 2014 study: By definition, breakthrough innovation is the introduction of new ideas that drive a different way of doing things. Similarly, about 70 percent of disruptive innovators also lean toward a more centralized approach.

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Successfully shaping Digital Transformation

ITONICS

This will challenge your company’s culture and its willingness to embrace change. Transform your corporate culture slowly but steadily and involve all stakeholders, expand the roles and the skill portfolio of your employees, in particular. E = Experimentation: Fast pace on the markets require a culture of experimentation.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

50 what-if questions to reimagine the future We have handpicked a selection of trends & shifts in technology to help you come up with more relevant business ideas. For example, Spotify offers personalized playlists reflecting the cultural music of users’ heritage, based on their DNA test (provided by Ancestry).

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Four Innovation Paradoxes driving disruption

Innovation 360 Group

Before getting into the paradoxes, we have seen that when linking paradoxes to strategy, leadership and capabilities, the cultural context impacts alignments and misalignments more than other factors. Which cultural region your headquarters is located in also seems to have more relevance than in what market you operate.