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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

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Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. Volkswagen.

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Leaders will invest less in transformational innovation due to fears over the economy

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.” (available for download from Tuesday 7 Feb 2023), the outlook shows that there are potentially major problems ahead for innovation teams. This may upset a lot of startups or innovation teams who feel like it is their duty to look to the future and pull their company into new disruptive technologies.

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3 Dimensions of Innovation: the 23 Capabilities your company needs to succeed

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The image here is the list of exactly which capabilities your company needs to succeed at innovation. Almost every business leader will tell you that they value innovation and that it is a positive & important factor for their company. Now, I’m going to outline step by step what enables a company to deliver those ideas.

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Groupthink

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This might then also result in ongoing work in a team, or even an entire company, trying to avoid conflict and keeping the status quo. The theory was first extensively put forward by Irving Janis in 1972 , and expanded upon by him in the 1980s , based on this investigation into policy and military failures due to poor decision making.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

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It might seem like a straightforward question, but it is fundamental to whether a company will end up succeeding at innovation or failing. While many experts have argued for this in the past, in reality the research suggests it will depend more on the needs of each company. Companies that survive do both.

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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

You don't need a pill, you need a team. Red Team / Blue Team The idea of a red team (attacker or hacker) versus the blue team (defender or good guy) has become a staple of cybersecurity, but it has an older history than that. What should happen next, and rarely does, is the creation of a disinterested red team.