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The Revolution in Innovation Management: The Challenge for Legacy Firms

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  1. 1.

    Garnering over 200 responses from thought-leaders across and outside advertising and marketing, the project asked two questions: (1) What could/should advertising look like in 2020? and (2) What should we do now for that future?

  2. 2.

    John Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, New York Times best-selling author, and founder of Kotter International (a management consulting firm), he is renowned for his work on leading organizational change.

  3. 3.

    For background on morphological analysis, see Kwanyoung Im and Hyunbo Cho, “A systematic approach for developing a new business model using morphological analysis and integrated fuzzy approach,” Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 40, Issue 11, September 2013, Pages 4463–4477.

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Wind, J., Rhodes, K. (2017). The Revolution in Innovation Management: The Challenge for Legacy Firms. In: Brem, A., Viardot, E. (eds) Revolution of Innovation Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57475-6_9

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