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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Designers often embrace quantity and speed of idea generation, with quick-and-dirty prototyping; clinicians, cautious, precise, and scientific in their approach to problem solving, can seem rigid and bureaucratic by comparison. Set project budgets and scope design projects at the outset to align with funding size and horizons.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

Rational-experimental problem solving was built around a series of stages, each leading up to the identification of a solution. Likewise, design thinking is generally described as being made up of modes, stepping stones in the design process, with each mode reflecting a different aspect of design thinking.