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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

It, too, was enthusiastically embraced by managers and policy makers, and was invoked to reshape practices in firms and government. Rational-experimental problem solving was built around a series of stages, each leading up to the identification of a solution.