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Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

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Planting Entrepreneurial Innovation in Inner Cities

Harvard Business Review

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

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Innovation Needs a Lingua Franca

Harvard Business Review

The importance of speaking a "foreign" language was reinforced recently when I needed a new slide depicting the gears that drive innovation for one of my speeches. While working on Wall Street, I traveled to Latin America no less than 100 times, first as a banker, then an equity analyst. Sprechen sie the language of innovation?

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business Review

To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. For example, Uber and Grab link riders and drivers, Airbnb links hosts and travelers, and Amazon links shoppers and sellers. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation. job websites Indeed and Glassdoor.)

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. — data from the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor showed that the vast majority of the 69 countries surveyed reported higher entrepreneurial activity among immigrants than among natives, especially in growth-oriented ventures.

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What Makes Some Silicon Valley Companies So Successful

Harvard Business Review

Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. vincent tsui FOR HBR.

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The Right Way to Plan an Innovation Tour

Harvard Business Review

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.