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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. To ensure first mover advantage, the schedule was extremely aggressive.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. To ensure first mover advantage, the schedule was extremely aggressive.