Organizational ambidexterity is what Jansen calls for in his substantial body of work around exploratory and exploitative innovation. His is a call for companies to develop the ability to pursue both of these types of innovation simultaneously. We believe that it is crucial to a company’s survival to do as he says. Exploitative...
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Q&A With Chris Miller What’s in a Name?
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Our new team lead has asked me to look into what other organizations call their ‘fuzzy front end'. A portion of her inquiry is a desire to rename the group into something more meaningful, better tied to other organizations’ vernacular and perhaps even have a cool... The Dark Night of Innovation
Disillusion and despair? Worry is not to worry about, it is merely to be overcome
By Gary C. Graziano, AIA and Christopher W. Miller, Ph.D.
You’ve found a great opportunity to leverage existing capabilities, enhance the value of your product, and reduce costs. And, if you don’t do it, a competitor...Forget Brainstorming?
This past month there was a Newsweek item called “Forget Brainstorming.” Earlier this summer A.C. Nielson came out with a report that indicated that companies that use outside facilitation for ideation increased profits of new products by 20 to 30%.
My answer to this article’s apparent deviation to this stance supported in these two...
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