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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development. These metrics make it difficult for a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation.

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. Finance The goals for public companies are driven primarily by financial Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).

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