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A New CEO's Reinvention Road Map

Harvard Business Review

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. Especially right now.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Top startups already have market leading solutions. Creating the Venture Client Model. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. But only large corporates can offer the last one.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators.

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Playing a Dangerous Game With Job Creation

Harvard Business Review

technological and economic leadership in the world. In fact, our "first to invent" patent system with its accompanying grace period enabled several of the startups I built into market leaders to ration their limited resources for only the most crucial patenting needs, creating thousands of new jobs as a result.