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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. Research & development Financial management' So what was going on?

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter).

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