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Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean!

Legacy Innovation Group

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Jan 12, 2015 | Anthony Mills. Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean is a tool for driving efficiency. That, unfortunately, is simply not the case.

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

The Inovo Group

Just count the number of future-oriented sentences (not references to how innovative they are) in the CEO’s annual letter to shareholders (see sidebar). We’re taught that actions speak louder than words, yet words reveal whether a company is thinking about the long-term. All too often, though, innovation theater is the result.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Practice of Creativity: can be taught using creative techniques and methods such as design thinking (Neck et al., This is also referred to as the choice between pivoting or persevering (Ries, 2011). #3: References. Enterpreneurship is about finding the right mix between both causation and effectuation (Reymen et al.,