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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. ” Once an idea is out there, customers can express their desire for it, one of the most powerful forces for overcoming organization inertia and resistance.

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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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