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Don't Put Your Competitiveness in Jeopardy

Harvard Business Review

As publicity stunts go, having IBM's Watson beat the cognitive stuffing out of all-time Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings is the niftiest bit of artificial intelligence show biz since Deep Blue globally humiliated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. IBM's marketers apparently love promoting machines that make Mensa members look like morons.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

However much brainstorming your employees do, it will come to naught if they don’t have access to the seed money they need to prototype and test their ideas. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. So it is with innovation.