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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

Cloud-based services are also now being bought directly by functions like HR and marketing, resulting in IT losing its control over technology purchase within the organization. They have changed their IT functions utilizing three related management interventions which, taken together, represent a fundamental re-invention of IT.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets. and the U.K.

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

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.