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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.

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Before Hiring a Design Partner, Consider This

Harvard Business Review

If you''re setting out to do so, you''ll need to confront uncertainty about how to get the most value from the investment and carefully consider what you''re setting out to achieve. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble have written at length on the challenges of execution in their book, The Other Side of Innovation.