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Intrapreneurship in "Social" Business

Mills Scofield

A powerful way to do this, called mobile recruitment uses text messaging (SMS: Short Message Service) to allow workers to find jobs. This customer discovery process let me identify the forces acting on a worker. This power has gotten intrapreneurship featured recently in publications like Forbes.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. If the CEO doesnt play this role, process improvement stays comfortably within functional boundaries. He wasnt a process manager.

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It's Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Admittedly, continuous improvement once powered Japan's economy. Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. Question whether processes should be improved, eliminated, or disrupted.

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Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

Christensen's research shows clearly that transformation often comes in the form a disruptive innovator that makes consumption simpler, convenient, and more affordable. Jack Dorsey's Square is processing millions of dollars in payments a day with its simple but powerful solution.

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The $2,000 Car

Harvard Business Review

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. The future is far from home.

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A Plan to Revitalize Greece

Harvard Business Review

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. That''s not right. Pick people carefully.

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