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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. A preoccupation with benchmarking against other projects.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. This definition may seem somewhat generic.