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The Case for Crowdsourcing Projects as a Business

Strategy Driven

If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market. Does your business suffer “blindness” to problems relating to your operations and its industry as a whole?

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* 6 Ideas About Creating Organizations That Value Ideas

You're Not the Boss of Me

John Cage once said, “ I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. This notion kind of struck me while I was watching a movie about Charles Darwin who had, and developed, one of the world’s biggest ideas, one that, even now, creates much spirited conversation. I’m frightened of the old ones”.

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6 Ideas About Creating Organizations That Value Ideas

You're Not the Boss of Me

John Cage once said, “ I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. This notion kind of struck me while I was watching a movie about Charles Darwin who had, and developed, one of the world’s biggest ideas, one that, even now, creates much spirited conversation. I’m frightened of the old ones”.

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. How centralized is the Innovation Unit? Let’s examine each archetype separately.

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Two Ways to Hire Effective Innovators

Harvard Business Review

For example, we'll ask candidates to develop an innovation strategy for the CEO of a major beverage company, synthesizing insights from the market conditions outlined in a beverage industry trend report (which we provide). The offering should at once communicate the candidate's individuality and appeal to a broader market.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Challenges.

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The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Strategy Driven

Business development. Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing).