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How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself? These are questions that stump senior executives, who understand that the ability to innovate is the secret sauce of business success. Unfortunately, most of us know very little about what makes one person more creative than another. In searching for answers, we undertook a six-year study to uncove…
Some in the Academy of Management have questioned the usefulness of case studies in teaching sound management theory. However, the authors' research and experience suggest that case studies can unite the development of theory with the teaching of it in a single enterprise they call course research. To show how research, course development, and teaching can be knit together in this way, this art…
This study traces the origins of innovative strategies by examining the attributes of innovative entrepreneurs. In an inductive grounded theory study of innovative entrepreneurs, we develop a theory that innovative entrepreneurs differ from executives on four behavioral patterns through which they acquire information: (1) questioning; (2) observing; (3) experimenting; and (4) idea networking. W…
An analysis of major innovations within existing corporations in the past decade shows that precious few have been business-model related. And a recent American Management Association study determined that no more than 10% of innovation investment at global companies is focused on developing new business models. A business model consists of four interlocking elements: 1. customer value proposit…
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