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How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?
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How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?

by Jaideep Prabhu, Gerard Tellis, Mark Dodgson, Erwin Danneels, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Weintraub, Jay Rao
April 2013
Beginner
9 pages
28m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review
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How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?

Many executives want their companies to be more innovative. A new assessment tool can help pinpoint your company’s innovation strengths and weaknesses.

JAY RAO AND JOSEPH WEINTRAUB

TODAY’S EXECUTIVES WANT their companies to be more innovative. They consume stacks of books and articles and attend conventions and courses on innovation, hoping to discover the elixir of success. They are impressed by the ability of comparatively young companies such as Google and Facebook to create and market breakthrough products and services. And they marvel at how some older companies — Apple, IBM, Procter & Gamble, 3M and General Electric, to name a few — reinvent themselves again and again. And they wonder, “How do ...

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ISBN: 53863MIT54315