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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business Review

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. That’s quite a mismatch.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. Conversely, figuring out how to maximize ROI on terabytes and gigabytes can't help but force leadership to reevaluate how orders of magnitude more data should make their business more valuable.

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