August, 2018

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Innovation isn’t just in tech

Martinka Consulting

When we think of innovation we think of the technology industry, don’t we? Here’s an interesting non-tech industry innovation taking place in Washington (and I’m sure other states). Voila, an innovative workaround. So ask yourself, are you doing anything innovative in your business? That’s atrophy.

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team.

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What Tech Companies Can Do to Become a Force for Inclusion

Harvard Business

” Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said that to TechCrunch in 2010 , but the line from then to now is the graph of our growing disenchantment with tech. Tech was supposed to unify society and increase inclusion, but for the most part it hasn’t worked out that way. Technology permits anybody to play.

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