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Why invest in innovation consulting?

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In the book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker defines innovation as “the specific instrument of entrepreneurship […] that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth” Scott Berkun, from Carnegie Mellon University, believes that “innovation is a significant positive change.”

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Experimenting 100 innovative solutions over 20 countries in Africa

Innovation Excellence

Ross , Innovation teacher at Carnegie Mellon University , about corporate open innovation in Africa, initially published in Disrupt Africa. Experiments with positive outcomes let you move further to exploitation and develop the solution in collaboration with the departments or business units, who then take full ownership.”.

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5 Excuses of companies that don't innovate (and how to overcome them)

Moves the Needle

There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues.

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5 Excuses of Companies that Don’t Innovate (And How to Overcome Them)

Moves the Needle

There’s a pervasive myth that suggests that all big companies need to get better at disruptive or breakthrough innovation. A culture of entrepreneurship snowballs. At Intuit, MTN Co-Founder Aaron Eden started the snowball by running “LeanStartIN” workshops under the radar to teach lean startup to small handfuls of colleagues.

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Why Corporations Need “Coopetition” with Startups

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Startup swami Eric Ries’ essential book The Lean Startup defines a startup as “a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty”, which implies an essential element of innovation. Innovation is the best way to create a sustainable business and avoid becoming obsolete.

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Corporate Innovation: How to Overcome Unique Challenges

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But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else. Lots of times, it’s just too difficult to ask the same people working on what your business is already doing to spend time breaking or disrupting it. Governance & Metrics 1.

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Corporate Innovation – How To Overcome Unique Challenges

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But if you don’t start believing that you need to disrupt yourselves before somebody else does, you’re likely going to get disrupted by somebody else. Lots of times, it’s just too difficult to ask the same people working on what your business is already doing to spend time breaking or disrupting it. Governance & Metrics.

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