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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. In the second case, the Innovation Unit directly initiates, funds, develops and experiments new ideas (typically focusing on discontinuous innovation) with a dedicated budget, staff and its own targets.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

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Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit

Harvard Business Review

This is not a matter of figuring out if a project was on time and on budget (although surely someone wants to learn that as well). One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate. But many companies fail to check if the benefits were ever achieved.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.); Executives realized that to do this, they would need to reallocate some of the company’s innovation resources from late-stage product enhancements to early-stage product breakthroughs.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. Pay your writers and creative team well.

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