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Honda’s executives were eager to exploit the company’s low labor costs to export motorbikes to North America,
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
They actually create new knowledge and information, from the inside out, in order to redefine both problems and solutions and, in the process, to re-create their environment.
Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
“The key to the Post-it adhesive was doing the experiment.
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
First, it gives rise to a whole different view of the organization—not as a machine for processing information but as a living organism.
Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Middle managers usually have been portrayed in recent literature as frustrated, disillusioned, stuck in the middle of a hierarchy in dreary jobs (Johnson and Frohman, 1989) with little hope of career progression, and increasingly subject to being replaced by technological advancements (Dopson and Stewart, 1990).1 Doomsayers argue, according to Boru
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At a startup, it’s unlikely that the CEO will tell the PM to take on these roles; usually the PM notices that there’s a gap and starts doing it himself.
Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro • Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology (Cracking the Interview & Career)
If the acquiree’s processes and values were the reason for its historical success, a better strategy is to let the business stand alone, and for the parent to infuse its resources into the acquired firm’s processes and values. This strategy, in essence, truly constitutes the acquisition of new capabilities.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma
Jack Welch, the legendary CEO of General Motors, called the idea of maximizing shareholder returns as “the dumbest idea in the world.”