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Understanding the Language of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We all know innovation has its own language conventions, rich with revolutions , evolutions , ecosystems , and more. Innovators, after all, are trying to communicate the promise of something that may not exist yet, and sometimes that requires some optimistic adornment. We wanted to learn more.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience. ” In 2011, Rita McGrath echoed another one of Iver and Davenport’s points: the importance of failure.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling. Be guided by appropriateness and tie into what the target values or needs most.

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Good Management Predicts a Firm’s Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills

Harvard Business Review

In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. Sure, there are thousands of case studies and small sample studies, but it’s hard to generalize from them, since the companies they focus on are seldom representative of the broader economy.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. In a recent study that matched random samples of U.S. The course culminates in a team-based innovation project presented to hospital leadership.

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What Makes New Orleans a Startup City to Rival the “Big Three”

Harvard Business Review

Now, New Orleans is being recognized as a hub of innovation, with a rate of business startups 64% higher than the national average. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s Katrina allowed one of America’s most historic places to reimagine itself as a startup city.