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Hallmarks of Organizational Ambidexterity

Integrative Innovation

If you are a frequent reader of this blog, you may know we’ve been relentlessly highlighting the importance of organizational ambidexterity as vital requirement for modern dual corporate innovation approaches. But what are hallmarks of successful organizational ambidexterity?

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Episode 14 The Fruit Tree Analogy: Cultivating Business Value at Microsoft Garage

IM Insights

Ed emphasizes the importance of creating organisational ambidexterity to execute known businesses while creating entirely new ones. The soil is the nourishing culture for the tree to produce. Unsuccessful fruits fall down and become fertilisers for the tree.

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Episode 15 The Fruit Tree Analogy: Cultivating Business Value at Microsoft Garage

IM Insights

00:06:16] Organizational Ambidexterity – Ed talks about the importance of creating organisational ambidexterity, which is to be able to relentlessly execute unknown businesses on the one hand and then on the other hand to be able to create entirely new businesses. [00:09:52]

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Establishing a new mentality for innovation

Paul Hobcraft

To achieve this innovation requires a greater organizational engagement than ever before. Second, the key to making both transformations work is to establish a new organizational process we call a “capabilities exchange,” through which the parallel efforts can share select resources without changing the mission or operations of either”.

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Beating Complexity with Flexibility: Corporate Innovation Insights and Inspiration with Dan Toma

Qmarkets

The two worlds I avoid using the most are ambidexterity (in the context of corporate innovation and transformation) and Minimum Viable Product (MVP). In cybernetics Ashby’s law states that: the complexity of a control system must be equal to, or greater than the complexity of the system it controls.

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

Open Innovation EU

When taking into account a wider definition of entrepreneurship, a more organizational perspective on the matter has described the same divide as causation versus effectuation. Entrepreneurial universities and research ambidexterity: A multilevel analysis. Corporate entrepreneurship. Are managers prepared to allow experimentation?

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A Model for Dual Corporate Innovation Management

Tim Kastelle

Premise 3 : Exploitation- and exploration-oriented initiatives are separated in terms of organizational anchoring, governance and funding. Moreover, it avoids exploration to fall victim to common and dangerous organizational traits: short termism and resource prioritization in favor of of core business.