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Why the Best Strategies Blend the Digital and Physical

Skip Prichard

Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything. Quality products that don’t break build customer loyalty. and it’s never the only answer.

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When You Can't Innovate, Copy

Harvard Business Review

In traditional investing philosophy, the most innovative firms are potentially the most profitable. So, from business books to business schools and corporate boards, everyone is talking about innovation. Yet, the focus on entrepreneurship training and startup intervention programs has centered on innovation.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To assess such risks to your business, consider the following six questions: Is customer loyalty decreasing? Are venture capitalists making significant and lasting investments in your industry? Growth strategy Innovation'

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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Making the Leap From Consumer Tech to Enterprise Class

Harvard Business Review

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. Startups and, increasingly, innovative mainstream companies converge on SXSW to test and launch new concepts. I predict a heightened frenzy of venture capitalists rushing to fund the next Pets.com or Webvan.

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There's No Formula for Fixing Detroit, and That's a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

The result was a city governing class clueless about and to a certain extent disdainful of economic reality and a regional economic elite with few ties and little loyalty to the region''s main city. Policy innovation. and venture capitalist. Entrepreneurship Government Innovation'