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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? But those are two separate functions that require different staffing, relationships, and resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey.

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

With due diligence and decent design, these partnerships can go beyond good results and energize organizations that have become too comfortable or complacent with everyday routines. This sharply contrasts with typical legacy reactions to more comprehensive testing or innovation rollouts, i.e., resistance and confusion.

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