Tag: Peter Drucker
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The Search for a Reliable Engine of Innovation: 4 Case Studies
“Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs . . . It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced.” Peter Drucker When Hank Shaw and I started writing The Perpetual Innovation Machine, colleagues would ask us why we chose to call the management methodology we describe in…
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Innovation, Benchmarking & the 5 Stages of Grieving
92% of executives surveyed as part of the “GE Global Innovation Barometer 2012” agreed that innovation is the main lever to create a more competitive economy. Steven Johnson identifies 7 key principles that are a catalyst for innovation in his book “Where Good Ideas Come From“, 2 of which I’ve noted below: seizing existing components or…