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Ruaha Farm (T) Ltd: Engaging Local Beekeeping Communities in Tanzania
Wim Vanhaverbeke; Nicholaus Tutuba; Jasinta Msamula; Pulkeria Pascoe; Jerum Kilumile; Hawa Petro TunduiCase IVEY-9B20M220-EStrategyThe chief executive officer of Ruaha Farm (T) Ltd (Ruaha Farm), in Iringa, Tanzania, established his honey business, in 2012. The company’s business model relied on the engagement and empowerment of neighbouring communities of low-income beekeepers, creating mutually beneficial relationships with local beekeeping communities in the Iringa region. The business model was unique, asset-light, and scalable. In contrast with an integrated business mod...Starting at €8.20
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Curana: Managing Open Innovation for Growth in SMEs (B)
Wim VanhaverbekeCase IVEY-9B17M140-EStrategySupplement for product 9B17M139.Starting at €5.74
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Dynamically Balancing Supply and Demand: Driving Innovation to the Core
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5107BC-EStrategyTo build and sustain a robust innovation capability, your company needs to carefully manage both the supply and demand side of innovation. This chapter describes specific principles and techniques for dynamically managing this important equation. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates."Starting at €8.20
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Managing and Multiplying Resources: Maximizing the Return on Innovation
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5109BC-EStrategyWithin most organizations, there are formidable barriers that prevent would-be innovators from getting access to the talent and capital they need to execute their ideas. This chapter looks at examples of companies that have successfully overcome barriers to funding radical innovation by instituting processes that help them effectively manage and multiply available resources. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for...Starting at €8.20
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Constructing an Innovation Architecture
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5110BC-EStrategyWhile you need a lot of ideas and experiments to increase your chances of success, you also want your company's innovation efforts to accumulate over time so that you can build a defensible and differentiated competitive position in the marketplace. This chapter explains how your company can effectively build and deploy an innovation architecture to create a powerful strategy for revolutionizing your industry. This chapter is excerpted from "Inn...Starting at €8.20
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Innovating Across the Business Model
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5112BC-EStrategySome of the most successful innovations of our time have been business model innovations that break from company or industry norms in meaningful and sometimes radical ways. This chapter shows you how to take your company's business model apart and consider each component as an opportunity for game-changing innovation. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates."Starting at €8.20
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Producing a Torrent of New Opportunities: Enhancing the Innovation Pipeline
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5113BC-EStrategyThis chapter outlines five design rules for enlarging and enhancing your innovation pipeline so that it becomes capable of pumping out a continual flow of wealth-creating new products, services, strategies, and businesses. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates."Starting at €8.20
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The New Innovation Challenge
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5116BC-EStrategyIn today's innovation-based economy, where organic growth and strategic renewal are the new business mantras, either companies learn to build a systematic capability for innovation or they risk becoming obsolete. This chapter profiles innovation leaders to help you begin thinking about boosting your company's innovation performance in a dramatic and enduring way. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transformin...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Foundation of Novel Strategic Insights: Making Innovation a Systematic Capability
Skarzynski, Peter; Gibson, RowanBook Chapter HBS-5127BC-EStrategyHow do radical innovators come up with breakthrough ideas? In this chapter, the authors discuss four essential perspectives, or discovery lenses, and describe how innovators have used them to uncover powerful new insights and opportunities. Hands-on tools and techniques for using each lens, and specific criteria for evaluating the quality of prospective insights are included. This chapter is excerpted from "Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint fo...Starting at €8.20
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Quilts of Denmark: Managing Open Innovation
Wim VanhaverbekeCase IVEY-9B16M213-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyQuilts of Denmark was a Danish start-up company founded in 2000 with the goal of producing high-quality, functional quilts and pillows that contributed to healthy sleep. The company’s open innovation with a space agency and technology company resulted in an “intelligent” quilt that regulated body heat, providing users with an elusive but much-desired experience: a good night’s sleep. Selling a premium product in a commodity market was a challenge...Starting at €8.20