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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans.

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My New Book, Double the Love - Now Available on Amazon!

Management Craft

A bunch of fabulous people reviewed the pre-production version of the book and offered their endorsements. Cory Bouck , Director of Organizational Development & Learning at Johnsonville Sausage; author of The Lens of Leadership : Being the Leader Others WANT to Follow. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc.

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Answering Your Questions About P&G and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone.

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To Innovate, Play with Pieces Off the Game Board

Harvard Business Review

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Truly game-changing institutional innovations are unlikely to come about from internalizing the rules and making the moves that allowed others to win.

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My New Book, Double the Love - Now Available on Amazon!

Management Craft

A bunch of fabulous people reviewed the pre-production version of the book and offered their endorsements. Cory Bouck , Director of Organizational Development & Learning at Johnsonville Sausage; author of The Lens of Leadership : Being the Leader Others WANT to Follow. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc.

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To Innovate, Play with Pieces Off the Game Board

Harvard Business Review

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Truly game-changing institutional innovations are unlikely to come about from internalizing the rules and making the moves that allowed others to win.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones.