Creating an innovation culture | McKinsey & Company - 1 views
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we’re also seeing a renaissance of something decidedly traditional: the corporate R&D department.
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We all need mechanisms and a culture that encourage the embrace of new technologies, kindle the passion for knowledge, and ease barriers to creativity and serendipitous advances
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Scientists should stick to two projects—having only one can be boring; having three can overextend you.
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Conventional wisdom holds that organizations die of starvation from a shortage of good ideas and projects. In reality, they are much more likely to die of indigestion. A surfeit of projects with inadequate staffing makes delivering on anything less likely.
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R&D leaders need to hire people who are willing to join multiple projects and to move from one to another as needed. Call them ambidextrous; call them system thinkers. These are people who want to solve problems that matter and that take them from invention to final product