Idea to Value
JANUARY 4, 2022
Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? In organsiations which suffer from the ostrich effect, it is not just that bad news is ignored. Two examples where leadership failed to take on board bad news are Volkswagen and Nokia. Volkswagen.
Idea to Value
MAY 31, 2022
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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TechEmpower Innovation
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? These are the worries that keep team leads up at night.
Idea to Value
JULY 20, 2023
Diamonds are formed under pressure There are numerous examples of companies who allowed staff to take time to work on their own innovations and creative ideas. Or how modern video game developers often need to work right up until the last minute to finish a game before it is released to critical acclaim.
Tullio Siragusa
JULY 24, 2023
Example: Kodak, a once-dominant player in the photography industry, struggled to innovate and adapt to the digital age. One famous case is the dismissal of the digital camera concept by an engineer in the 1970s. Example: P&G used Design Thinking to redesign its Pampers product.
Brunner
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Building a new way to measure marketing impact To deal with this challenge, a collaborative team at Brunner has started building a system to replace media performance reporting. We collaborate closely with Brunner’s media teams, who are running campaigns on various channels. A good example comes from image classification.
Idea to Value
MARCH 25, 2020
The real stories behind some of the famous examples people usually refer to when they talk about big aha moments and overnight successes are often quite different. Let’s look at a few of these examples. The end result was an adhesive that was very weak but reusable as it peeled off without leaving stains. Newton and the Apple.
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