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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. A compelling case for innovation. Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For example, some may provide a source of competitive differentiation like the investment that German manufacturer Bosch is making in its internet of things (IoT) data platform. Others are essential to running the existing business but don’t necessarily provide a competitive advantage. Implementation criteria.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. How can we go even faster? Insight Center.