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Add You - Creativity and Innovation - Large Firms Versus Small Firms
This is a question that has no absolute answer. In many aspects of life an entrepreneurial spirit is useful. For our purposes, we will stick to the commercial and business areas and narrow the field of possible answers within this scope.I believe that theoretically any per
g) There is confusion between organisational size and team size. Small teams working with direct access to decision makers in large organisations can be just, if not more (with larger resources), effective than small firms.
These and other
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a) Small firms suffer from a different set of problems than larger firms. Small firms, for example, tend to lack resources whereas larger firms tend to have more resources but may be less ready for wholesale adaptation in times of radical change. But these limitations do not mean that one is more innovative than the other. The sheer availability of resources means larger firms should be able to innovate along product, process, positioning and paradigm lines more often.
b) Large firms register more patents than small firms.
c) Relatively little data is available about innovation in small firms.
d) Most research of small firms has been conducted in the technology sector – a very small sample with it’s own idiosyncrasies – the very large investments that some tech firms get skews the data.
e) There is little data analysing whether the innovations produced by small firms has any significance at all.
f) Small firms will inevitably tend to suffer a lack of intellectual cross-pollination and frame breaking and higher degrees of path dependency and parochialism.
g) There is confusion between organisational size and team size. Small teams working with direct access to decision makers in large organisations can be just, if not more (with larger resources), effective than small firms.
These and other
Many of us remember the days when it was claimed that computers and other technological advances would give us so much more time. The reality is that all these gadgets have in many ways made it more difficult to manage our time. In the past we had letters and phone calls to res
b) Large firms register more patents than small firms.
c) Relatively little data is available about innovation in small firms.
d) Most research of small firms has been conducted in the technology sector – a very small sample with it’s own idiosyncrasies – the very large investments that some tech firms get skews the data.
e) There is little data analysing whether the innovations produced by small firms has any significance at all.
f) Small firms will inevitably tend to suffer a lack of intellectual cross-pollination and frame breaking and higher degrees of path dependency and parochialism.
g) There is confusion between organisational size and team size. Small teams working with direct access to decision makers in large organisations can be just, if not more (with larger resources), effective than small firms.
These and other
Related to the topic of problem-or-solution-oriented change is the topic of participation. But this issue of participation is more delicate than the previous one.This is about the amount of space for negotiation around the proposition. The proposition however is something
b) Large firms register more patents than small firms.
c) Relatively little data is available about innovation in small firms.
d) Most research of small firms has been conducted in the technology sector – a very small sample with it’s own idiosyncrasies – the very large investments that some tech firms get skews the data.
e) There is little data analysing whether the innovations produced by small firms has any significance at all.
f) Small firms will inevitably tend to suffer a lack of intellectual cross-pollination and frame breaking and higher degrees of path dependency and parochialism.
g) There is confusion between organisational size and team size. Small teams working with direct access to decision makers in large organisations can be just, if not more (with larger resources), effective than small firms.
These and other
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e) There is little data analysing whether the innovations produced by small firms has any significance at all.
f) Small firms will inevitably tend to suffer a lack of intellectual cross-pollination and frame breaking and higher degrees of path dependency and parochialism.
g) There is confusion between organisational size and team size. Small teams working with direct access to decision makers in large organisations can be just, if not more (with larger resources), effective than small firms.
These and other
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g) There is confusion between organisational size and team size. Small teams working with direct access to decision makers in large organisations can be just, if not more (with larger resources), effective than small firms.
These and other topics are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with a Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power Point Presentation) from http://www.managing-creativity.com/
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Kal Bishop, MBA
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