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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

Usually when people talk of DNA they're raising questions of corporate culture: Does the company rely on consensus among managers or are strategies and tactics directed from the top? In a company setting, that would be the economics of its business model. How does the company deal with dramatic change?

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What Makes Some Silicon Valley Companies So Successful

Harvard Business Review

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business. The editors of Fast Company say Nike. But there are some measurements that try.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business. The editors of Fast Company say Nike. But there are some measurements that try.