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Innovation is a Team Sport

Post Author:Michael F. Arrigo
Post published:September 22, 2008
Post Category:change management / Innovation / killing innovation / organizational development / process automation
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Indifference, Hostility, Isolation Are Obstacles to Healthy Innovation BusinessWeek said it well. In most companies, just about all the cards are stacked against the nurturing of innovation, especially the kinds…

Preventing Corporate Antibodies from Killing Innovation

Post Author:Michael F. Arrigo
Post published:September 27, 2007
Post Category:Analytic Thinking / Cisco / collaboration / Design Thinking / framework / Innovation / killing innovation / mass collaboration / Six Sigma
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Corporations have antibodies that attempt to kill innovation. Six Sigma for example can take defects out, but it can be counter to the very culture that innovators seek. Companies need…