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Use a foil to gain a cutting edge

By Mike Southon

Published: September 25 2009 16:40 | Last updated: September 25 2009 16:40

Ioften meet people in large organisations who want to be more enterprising. The discussion is always about new business ideas and how they plan to stimulate innovation from within.

Once the new ideas are on the table, the challenge is execution: how to make them happen. While most people think that the
next stage involves generating new revenue or an internal budget, I have a more immediate piece of advice: they should find a “foil”.

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