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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. For one, instead of establishing their own online sales site, they partnered with Amazon, a formidable rival. They were not agile enough. The company failed on multiple fronts.

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

Harvard Business

When sales of the Frankenstein product missed their mark, everyone shared the blame. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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