Management Practice Insights
DOI: 10.59571/mpi.v1i1.2
Year: 2023, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 8-11
Original Article
Malay Krishna 1,*
1 Professor in the Department of Strategy & Innovation, SPJIMR, India
*Correspondance: [email protected]
Received Date:22 September 2022, Accepted Date:21 October 2023, Published Date:09 May 2023
Problem of Practice: While most large companies are making conscious efforts to make their businesses future-ready, truly disruptive ideas face multiple hurdles. Even before a new venture faces the market test, it must attract investment — and decision makers often hesitate to invest precisely because a radical new idea is so unfamiliar. Research1 by Mount and team reveals novel and useful ways to protect a company against this 'unfamiliarity bias.' First, the idea evaluators' background and expertise should be relevant to the ideas under review. Second, the evaluators should engage a lens of 'how' instead of 'why' while making the investment decision. Using a warm-up task is one application of the 'how' approach.
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2 “Overcoming the Innovation Readiness Gap,” BCG Global, March 22, 2021, https://www.bcg.com/publications/2021/most-innovative-companiesoverview.
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5 Alex Konrad, “Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! The Exclusive Inside Story Of The New Billionaire Behind Techs Hottest IPO,” Forbes, April 19, 2019, https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/19/zoom-zoom-zoom-theexclusive-inside-story-of-the-new-billionaire-behind-techs-hottest-ipo/.
6 Joel M. Podolny and Morten T. Hansen, “How Apple Is Organized for Innovation,” Harvard Business Review, November 1, 2020, https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovation.
7 Wendy-Lynn McClean, “Strategy Tool: Amazons PR/FAQ,” Intrico.Io (blog), October 8, 2022, https://medium.com/intrico-io/strategy-tool-amazons-prfaq-72b3e49aa167.
8 Larry Page, “G Is for Google: Read Larry Pages Entire Letter,” CNN Business, August 10, 2015, https://money.cnn.com/2015/08/10/technology/googlealphabet-restructuring/index.html.
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