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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet.

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Driverless technology: a soon-to-be reality?

Tom Spencer

Flash forward over 30 years, much of the tech that the film predicted has come true. Most driverless cars at the moment operate at Level 3, so the car is in control but a human safety driver is present to intervene when required. Another large obstacle that driverless cars must surmount is gaining consumer trust.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. When sales of the Frankenstein product missed their mark, everyone shared the blame. D-BASE/Getty Images. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. The challenge of experimenting at an organization committed to perfection. The SFO project began in January 2015.

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