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Stop Saying Big Companies Can't Innovate

 


MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Harvard Business Review

June 29, 2016

Stop Saying Big Companies Can't Innovate

By Vijay Govindarajan


Want to Do Corporate Innovation Right? Go Inside Google Brain by Greg Satell

A look at their machine learning team.


A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative by Joe Peppard

How to work backwards from the outcome that you want.


Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform by Satya Ramaswamy

It requires facing some hard truths.


What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera by David Hoyt, Robert I. Sutton

A perfectionist organization learns to experiment.


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