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Why Your Innovation Lab is D.O.A.
According to a recent Innovation Management post, Are Corporate Innovation Centers Too Big To Fail?, the number of such centers or labs across the globe jumped from 301 to 456 over the course of the 15 months ending October 2016. This 60%+ increase reflects legacy enterprise efforts to deal with inescapable disruption. Boards and the…
Why Founders Fail
A seed stage investor with a 20-year track record of success recently told me, “There are 100 things a founder must get right for his company to succeed, and if he only gets 99 of them right he is likely to fail.” While the number of “must do” items may be up for debate, it’s…
Strategy: Now is Not the Time, but Now is Always the Time
The Founder and CEO of an early stage company that has just closed a solid seed round tells me that what has benefited his business most in the past year, and allowed him to pivot towards a promising future, can be expressed in one word: Focus. The CEO of a late-stage startup who spent over…
About Amy Radin
Amy Radin is an adviser, speaker and author, working with executives and senior leaders to deliver growth through meaningful innovation. She offers an uncommonly pragmatic and disciplined approach that begins with pinpointing high-potential unmet market needs, and from there provides a proven framework for “what to do next” and how to lead through the inevitable, daily challenges any organization will face in pursuit of innovation.
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