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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. The trick for entrepreneurs and digital innovators, then, is to use a bricolage strategy to obtain modern digital infrastructure and tools to transform existing businesses or conceive and build new ones.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare. The number of people affected by an innovation.

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