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How Real Innovation Moves the Needle
In the wake of the financial disaster, it’s entirely legitimate to wonder: Is innovation relevant anymore?Up until a year ago, innovation was the toast of the business world. Companies around the world...
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Forget Design Thinking and Try Hybrid Thinking
The true secret to innovation can be found in "hybridity," the conscious blending of different and disperse fields of thought--which doesn't always have to include design.When A.G. Lafley was named CEO...
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Crafting Your Own Innovation Strategy: The Who, What, and How
If companies seek to innovate sustainably over time, they need to understand who they focus on, what they should make, and how they actually conceive and develop new products and services.It's time for...
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Widespread Empathy: Rewiring Your Corporation for Intuition
Companies that make empathy an easy, everyday, and experiential part of work inevitably outperform their peers.How many times have you stared at a competitor's new product and said, "We had that idea...
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Embrace Your Small Ideas for Big Impacts
Nothing can kill innovation faster than the performance anxiety that results from outsized ambition. An ode to the little ideas that matter.When Interval Research Corporation opened its Silicon Valley...
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Reinventing the MBA: 4 Reasons to Mix Business With Design Thinking
A conversation with the author and dean of Rotman School of Management Roger Martin reveals why schools need to include design when teaching business.We've all heard the news that the traditional MBA...
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Why Can't Big Companies Solve Big Problems?
For the past few years, I've been trying to understand just what it is that prevents large organizations from doing great things. Clearly, one major part of the problem is their lack of empathy for the...
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5 Secrets To Pixar’s Success
Recently at Jump, I had the pleasure of interviewing Oren Jacob, the former chief technical officer of Pixar, in front of a small group of invited guests. Oren shared a number of fascinating stories of...
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