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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Two, don’t assume that your firm or even your industry has the answers. A great place to look for new models is in adjacent industries or even entirely different industries.

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

When forced to present familiar metrics for truly out-of-the-box "beginning" ideas, work teams develop what our friend Jay Paap calls "Imaginary Numbers." A model that doesn't stimulate, value, and advocate for ideas that begin in absurdity will probably never change the game in its industries.

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