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Your Innovation Strategy Doesn’t Need Disruption
A commonly held view is that routine innovation is not “real” innovation and that any company focused on it is myopic at best and suicidal at worst. But the truth is that routine innovation can, under the right conditions, be extremely profitable.
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Why Your Innovation Initiative Probably Failed
The usual suspects are lack of senior leadership’s commitment and middle management’s resistance to change, but I have found the real reasons run much deeper.