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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within.

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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business Review

This is the classic upmarket march described by the theory of disruptive innovation, and today it represents 25% of the worldwide commercial aviation market. Today, air taxi companies operate in a similar fashion to the Southwest of yore. Today, air taxi companies operate in a similar fashion to the Southwest of yore.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. Regards, Steve [link] Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation – N2Growth Blog « Tech4buziness – Eng [.] I do agree with your basic premise though.

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Too Much Profit Can Doom Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The leading enterprises of the world were ones that fashioned a profitable business model and leveraged it over time. Profits appear more and more as a lagging indicator of yesterday’s innovations. What defines success for a business? For most of the last century, it was profits.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

Those that do spend an evening discussing the challenges of digital disruption with us and some of the brightest MBA students on the planet. Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes.

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Best Buy Can't Match Amazon's Prices, and Shouldn't Try

Harvard Business Review

It could charge equipment manufacturers for showroom space, forcing their profit to come from those customers who can't afford to set up their own distribution networks in the same fashion as Microsoft and Amazon.

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