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Before Hiring a Design Partner, Consider This

Harvard Business Review

Designers are problem solvers, and this worldview has enabled them to move from the world of making objects into the world of defining strategy and influencing consumer behavior. The outcomes will only work in the long term if both sides combine their expertise into a rich body of shared experience and understanding.

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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

As Karim Tabbouche, the chief strategy officer of VIVA Bahrain, told me: “Our planning process had become myopic and short term in nature, with our objectives becoming tactical and linear in nature. Vijay Govindarajan. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Add to Cart.