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Yes, You Can Brainstorm Without Groupthink

Harvard Business Review

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Anyone, alone or with other people if they need or want help, can pick any idea and develop it further.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

But digitization is more than just a change of tools. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. The third step is about developing an organization that will foster digital practices. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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“Government Entrepreneur” is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

They are partnering with an Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston or in Philadelphia, co-developing products in San Francisco’s Entrepreneurship-in-Residence program, or deploying some of the more than $430 million invested into civic-tech in the last two years. Entrepreneurship Government Leadership'