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6 Ways for Entrepreneurs to Manage Their Ideas

CO2

While generating ideas comes easily for entrepreneurs, discerning which ideas to implement and which to discard does not usually come as easily. CO 2 Partners specializes in working with entrepreneurs and helping them organize, sort, select, and manage their ideas. Idea Generation Trap.

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How Iteration-itis Kills Good Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Instead, there was a problem with the process that an idea generator had to go through before they stood in front of senior leadership. You see, before anything made it onto the agenda of the top management's biweekly meeting, it was vetted. The idea generator had to show the idea to their line manager.

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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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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious. Enlist project managers and ensure clear roles and responsibilities for all centre employees. As a result, team optimism and ambition can be wasted on activities that lack focus. Acknowledgements.

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Taming Your Company's Most Elusive Beast

Harvard Business Review

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place.

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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.