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The New World of Beta Curation

Strategy Driven

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. Copyright © 2013 by Dana Ardi and reprinted by permission of St. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. Each was set loose to develop or acquire products to satisfy those markets. Once they have a strategy to fit the context, they can sequence out the various steps to implement it.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.” provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. Construct a prenup.

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Making #GivingTuesday a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Across all kinds of platforms, individuals from nonprofit development staff to celebrities to CEOs helped spread this compelling idea. There is not a development team or nonprofit board in the world that wouldn’t perk up at that number. Encourage innovations on the theme. And most importantly, more giving took place.

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Making Management as Simple as Frisbee

Harvard Business Review

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival. In fact, these companies are not behaving chaotically. Keep your gaze on the customers.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Redefining the Patient Experience with Collaborative Care

Harvard Business Review

For example, its accountable-care-organization partnership with Bellin Health, a health care system in Green Bay, Wisconsin, presently has the lowest cost per Medicare beneficiary among 32 pioneer ACOs, and the ThedaCare Physicians group was ranked first in quality performance statewide in 2013 by Consumer Reports. Involve the patient.