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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions. They must also be willing to see value in absurdity. The risks-rewards are relatively low.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Given that some of these problems are rooted in people’s tendency to resist change, do newer firms have an advantage when it comes to creating the best new business models?