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Moving Beyond Stage-Gate Project Management

Harvard Business Review

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. The key to innovation has been and always will be People. Blue Lobsters are just plain innovative.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. The key to innovation has been and always will be People. Blue Lobsters are just plain innovative.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one.

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Unrealistic Expectations of Innovation & Entrepreneurs

Mills Scofield

Humans are one of the few mammals whose babies are not fully developed at birth. Yet, when we discuss the birth and development of innovations and companies, it’ [.]. Unlike horses, whales, etc., human babies can’t stand, walk, or forage on their own at birth.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship In Brazil In The Wake Of Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

After all, hugely successful people, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college before building their hugely successful businesses. Tamo Junto are intervening at the very early stage of this process, and often need to forment the notion of oneself as an entrepreneur in the first place.

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3 Personal Lessons On How To Succeed At Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. Develop a learning mindset to embrace failure and discover new opportunities Given my scientific background, I’m sure it comes as no surprise that for the past 5 years, I’ve been experimenting with what and how I write for this blog. What Have You Learned Going Forward?