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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. Reliance MediaWorks' global creative network is highly decentralized, allowing each design studio head in the U.S. and the U.K.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. The BRIDGE that failed for Gap Makers #2, 3, and 4 : Company-Wide Coordination and Cooperation.

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The Promise of Blockchain Is a World Without Middlemen

Harvard Business Review

Blockchain experts call this “decentralization.” ” Decentralization offers the promise of nearly friction-free cooperation between members of complex networks that can add value to each other by enabling collaboration without central authorities and middle men.

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Successful Leadership Is Not One Size Fits All

Coaching Tip

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. At HCL Technologies, and India-based IT company, the corporate culture springs at least partly from a broader Asian idea of cooperative action. GE and HCL.

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New Technologies Won’t Reduce Scarcity, but Here’s Something That Might

Harvard Business Review

They argue that we cannot cooperate with each other to solve our major problems because our institutions and businesses are saturated with a competitive spirit. Thus, a post-scarcity world, premised on cooperation, would emerge. In a book titled Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?, But can we really end scarcity?