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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions. In pursuit of breakthrough, management is not the enemy as it is so often portrayed.

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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. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. How do they do it?