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Innovation Thrives Despite Piracy

The Horizons Tracker

When Napster was released in 1999 pretty much all the way through until its demise in 2002, considerable unrest swirled around the platform. After all, when people could get your core offering for free, not only would that harm your income but it would discourage the industry from producing content and stifle innovation.

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Management Innovations Only Work When No One Else Is Doing Them

The Horizons Tracker

” Management innovation. A database was created with information about team payrolls, playing success, the use of analytics in that team and the contribution of each player to the team over a prolonged period between 1985 and 2013. By 2002 it was catching on and three teams had adopted it, but by 2013, a whopping 75% had done so.

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Gjis van Wulfen: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

At the end of 2002 he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation […]. He worked as a marketer in the fast moving consumer goods sector and switched to consulting at Ernst & Young Consulting and Boer & Croon Strategy & Management Group.

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How Disney Found Its Way Back to Creative Success

Harvard Business Review

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. In fact, WB does have a history of innovation. When Robert Iger, Disney chair and CEO, purchased Pixar for $7.4

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Building a Culture of Transparency in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

A 2013 article in The Ochsner Journal, titled “Just Culture: A Foundation for Balanced Accountability and Patient Safety,” concluded that “a fair and just culture improves patient safety by empowering employees to proactively monitor the workplace and participate in safety efforts in the work environment.”

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

Even when companies do want to expand their product offerings, internal preparation and sequencing can matter more than the innovation itself. The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 PayPal, the electronic payments giant, found itself at a crossroads in 2015.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

in 2013 to 3.7 Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S.