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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003.

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What Is The Job Metaverse Is Trying To Do?

The Horizons Tracker

One of the more interesting applications has been “StockCity”, which was developed by Fidelity International to allow traders and investors to traverse a fully 3D virtual city, with buildings representing each stock and complete with pertinent data about that company. Experiences in VR may be a poor proxy for real life.”.

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Attracting Top Contributors to an Open Innovation Project

Harvard Business Review

“Not all smart people work for you,” begins Henry Chesbrough’s classic 2003 HBR article on the merits of open innovation. Firms must find a way to tap into external knowledge and ideas to innovate. Today, this premise is the basis for crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, open source development, and more.

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9 Team Dynamics That Get Results

Mike Cardus

Two key leader roles are required for a project team. Additionally taking time to know expertise and special interests of team members will all people to me matched to their capacity to complete the project tasks, as they are assigned. Teams must have leadership. One is the strategic leader and the other is the team leader.

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If You Want Innovation, You Have to Invest in People

Harvard Business Review

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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The Planning Fallacy and the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. But anyone with near-term innovation targets with nine (or six or even four) digits in them should ensure they are familiar with the concept of "planning fallacy.". The average actual cost?

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Tele-Mentoring Is Creating Global Communities of Practice in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In my role at the GE Foundation , I am lucky enough to meet pioneers with a global vision for health and sustainable development. This rare genius truly shines in Dr. Sanjeev Arora, the creator and founder of Project ECHO. So he conceived of and launched Project ECHO. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.