This is an overview of some interesting open access papers published in the last two weeks!
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The Lean Scale-Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship for New Ventures
Traditionally, organization design (OD) is an area of expertise focused on the roles and formal structures of organizations. The main goal of OD would be to design the organization in such a way that it makes it possible for the company to reach its vision and thus facilitates the growth.
Read moreAgile Methods in a New Area of Innovation Management and Business Modeling.
This article by Link and Lewrick (2014), presented at the Science-to-Business Marketing Conference, provides an interesting overview of the possibilities of Agile Methods in Innovation Management. The authors propose that Agile Methods should not be used in R&D only, but also in fields like organizational culture, management style, structures, effective working and cunstomer relationships.
Preliminary results indicate that using their methodology for Agile Business Models creates more than 100% growth in new business results year-to-year, 100 times cost reduction, innovative solutions, brand image growth and reduction of process life cycles.
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Brainport needs thousands of new knowledge workers
The Brainport Region has indicated to be searching for thousands of employees with a technical background. The local market is not offering enough, so the region has (again) started a campaign to attract knowledge workers from abroad. Good news in uncertain times.
Link: http://nos.nl/video/464667-eindhoven-gaat-personeel-in-buitenland-zoeken.html