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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.