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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

They drive innovation and speed up time to market. But, they can also represent a significant cultural challenge to implement and require strong leadership and cooperation from your organization. They reduce duplication of efforts and skills, thus reducing operational costs.

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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. Cultural differences can severely hamper cooperation between Western and Eastern engineers. and the U.K. Communicate constantly to break down cultural barriers.

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

Harvard Business Review

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

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” Incorporating rapid programming practices (“ Agile ” and “ Extreme Programming ”) to bring significant time-to-market and productivity benefits also required new and different skill sets than what were traditionally found within GE.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Having a clear lead site ensured prompt decision making and a project successfully delivered on time and on budget. That meant that every decision and aspect of cooperation had to be negotiated among multiple sites, at best a slow and cumbersome process. With each site defending its own corner, stalemates were common.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Having a clear lead site ensured prompt decision making and a project successfully delivered on time and on budget. That meant that every decision and aspect of cooperation had to be negotiated among multiple sites, at best a slow and cumbersome process. With each site defending its own corner, stalemates were common.