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Review of “Open Leadership” Framework (Leadership and Social Technologies Book)

Steve Shu Consulting

This part also frames open strategy in terms of four objective areas (applicable to company/brand/product) of learn, dialog, support, and innovate and increasing levels of engagement with constituents. So the sections covering organizational change are a nice wrap to the book and provides concrete inspiration from which to draw.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

This can result in favoring projects promising a quick ROI over riskier projects offering bigger impact in the long-term. Outcomes of successful innovation projects, such as a product, service or research finding, often need varying types and degrees of support to transition to the next phase of development.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. They Focus on the Business Challenge, Not the Technology. IoT technology is very cool.

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