Ambidextrous Organizations
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To make innovation work in companies of all sizes we need to find ways to have a strong core business that exploits existing markets aside a strong innovation culture exploring new possibilities, leveraging lean startup principles and business model innovation. This is the core idea of an ambidextrous organization.
Martin works on those topics as consultant, investor, as well as researcher and lecturer at business schools.
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This is how it all started. Professors O'Reilly and Tushman coined the term ambidextrous organisations and did tons of research about it. This article is a great intro and overview directly from them.