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Curt Carlson

@CRCinnovation

CEO SRI for 16 years. Now teaching at Northeastern and WPI.

 Silicon Valley
Joined January 2015
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The Great Management Distraction: Why Agile is Not Enough linkedin.com/pulse/great-man… via @LinkedIn
The Great Management Distraction

The Great Management Distraction

We Have Confused the Container with the Wine The Dogma For two decades, modern management dogma has insisted on an article of faith: if you break hierarchies into small, autonomous teams, run...

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Check out my latest article: Learn & Mitigate Risk Fast - Not Fail Fast linkedin.com/pulse/learn-mit… via @LinkedIn
Learn & Mitigate Risk Fast - Not Fail Fast

Learn & Mitigate Risk Fast - Not Fail Fast

The 4% of Companies That Drives Growth The Conflict Between Efficiency and Disruption Only a small minority of companies — the standout innovators and frontier firms creating new disruptive innovat...

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Check out my latest article: THE POWER OF INNOVATIVE KEY INSIGHTS linkedin.com/pulse/power-inn… via @LinkedIn
THE POWER OF INNOVATIVE KEY INSIGHTS

THE POWER OF INNOVATIVE KEY INSIGHTS

Why Value Creation Results are So Skewed Disparate Impact: In 1985, researchers noticed something puzzling about professional hockey players: the month they were born was a remarkably strong predic...

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Observations about Lean Startup and Incorruptible Complexity kills. linkedin.com/pulse/successfu… via @LinkedIn
Successful Enterprise Design

Successful Enterprise Design

An Unrelenting Focus on the Essential Few Eric Ries's The Lean Startup [1] shaped how many think about innovation. His new book Incorruptible [2] tackles a deeper question: why do good companies...

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Check out my latest article: The Last Essential Professional Skill linkedin.com/pulse/last-esse… via @LinkedIn
The Last Essential Professional Skill

The Last Essential Professional Skill

Why the AI Age Demands a Company of Value Creators Taylorism shaped a century of management by optimizing tasks. AI is eliminating those tasks.

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Check out my latest article: The Antifragile Organization linkedin.com/pulse/antifragi… via @LinkedIn
The Antifragile Organization

The Antifragile Organization

The Need for a Forcing Function to Make Success Inevitable Why Antifragile The Antifragile Organization, by Janka Krings-Klebe's and Jorg Schreiner, is a timely and important book. It frames one of...

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Check out my latest article: A Root Cause of Company Dysfunction linkedin.com/pulse/root-caus… via @LinkedIn

A Root Cause of Company Dysfunction

Framework for Exponential Improvement 1. We Must Improve Exponentially We are in the exponential AI era.

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Musk's Algorithm: Question, Delete, Simplify, Accelerate linkedin.com/pulse/musks-alg… via @LinkedIn

Musk's Algorithm: Question, Delete, Simplify, Accelerate

What Actually Makes Ultra-Fast, Low-Bureaucracy Organizations Work We've all read the articles: "Flatten your hierarchy!" "Empower the edges!" "Tech will kill bureaucracy!" They capture a real...

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Check out my latest article: Vignettes from "Moneyball" -- An Introduction to Value Creation linkedin.com/pulse/vignettes… via @LinkedIn
Vignettes from "Moneyball" -- An Introduction to Value Creation

Vignettes from "Moneyball" -- An Introduction to Value Creation

The movie addresses the major innovative failure: not identifying the actual unmet need The movie "Moneyball" with Brad Pitt tells the story of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, a perennial loser,...

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Denmark’s new burqa rule sparks global debate… W or L? youtube.com/shorts/LYWUy83QO… via @YouTube
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Check out my latest article: Core Principles of Value Creation linkedin.com/pulse/core-prin… via @LinkedIn
Core Principles of Value Creation

Core Principles of Value Creation

The Central Role of the NABC Framework in Value Creation Peter Drucker famously said, "The purpose of a company is to create a customer." That is achieved through value creation.

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Check out my latest article: Mastering Value Creation With AI linkedin.com/pulse/mastering… via @LinkedIn
Mastering Value Creation With AI

Mastering Value Creation With AI

AI tutors will transform the world's innovative performance I. Why is Value Creation the Missing Life-Skill of Our Time? In every profession, a core responsibility is creating value for others, yet...

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Check out my latest article: Customer-Centric Enterprises linkedin.com/pulse/customer-… via @LinkedIn
Customer-Centric Enterprises

Customer-Centric Enterprises

Improving our value creation abilities is the world's most significant unmet need. Enhancing value creation and innovation is humanity's most urgent unmet need because it directly determines our...

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Check out my latest article: The Customer-Centric Enterprise: 5 Pillars linkedin.com/pulse/customer-… via @LinkedIn

The Customer-Centric Enterprise: 5 Pillars

A Brief Playbook for Building World-Class Organizations Through AI Augmented Value Creation A. Introduction: The Innovation Imperative Master AI-powered value creation to solve humanity's greatest...

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Why Hierarchies Are A Barrier to Value Creation and Progress linkedin.com/pulse/why-hiera… via @LinkedIn
Why Hierarchies Are A Barrier to Value Creation and Progress

Why Hierarchies Are A Barrier to Value Creation and Progress

Mathematical Proof That Many Traditional Management Structures Destroy Value Creation and Innovation A. Introduction Traditional hierarchical organizations face a fundamental mathematical challenge:...

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The world's most important unmet need: The Value Creation Imperative linkedin.com/pulse/value-cre… via @LinkedIn
The Most Important Unmet Need

The Most Important Unmet Need

The most critical unmet need in the world is improving our ability to create value for others -- we will with AI Value Creation Value creation is the process of identifying and addressing the unmet...

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Check out my latest article: The Darwinian Approach to Innovation linkedin.com/pulse/darwinian… via @LinkedIn
The Darwinian Approach to Innovation

The Darwinian Approach to Innovation

How Constraints Drive Breakthrough Innovation I. Innovation: A Version of Darwinian Evolution Innovation parallels the principles of Darwinian evolution.

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Innovation 4 Impact Our value creation program on Coursera has how over 3,000 trained with a rating of 4.9 out of 5.0. Thanks to all who have joined us and made the program better.
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