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Some Principles of Innovation
- Organizational culture matters
- Need to challenge current ways of thinking, tacit rules and assumptions
- Practice of attention, escape and movement
- Cycles of divergent & convergent thinking
- Gradual application of judgment
- stage-gate or innovation-funnel concept
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