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How to Innovate with an Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

Without the foresight and intervention of senior leadership, the firm will simply concentrate on the opportunities that it was destined to concentrate on. Middle managers with limited resources and set evaluation metrics will simply operate in a predictable fashion. These are by no means comprehensive. But hopefully they are helpful.

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The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

It turns out that many aspects of lean startup, like showing rough prototypes to customers before you’ve invested lots of time and money, iterating based on their feedback, and letting data prove or disprove your hunches, all have powerful appeal inside big companies, where endless meetings and executive approvals often bog down innovation.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.); Imagine a car motor that lacks a transmission, timing belt, water pump, or starter.