Tomasz Pilewicz

What is technophobia and how to deal with it?

Strategy of Innovation /

Authors of scholar paper in Behavioral Sciences defined technophobia as extreme and abnormal fear of effects of advanced technology. According to research, technophobia demonstrates through irrational behaviors not only toward technology artefacts such as computers, drones, autonomous vehicles, but also toward advanced-technology-related phenomena of work automation, or personal data processing in the cyberspace. Particular type […]

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How to Run Lean and Agile at the Same Time?

Entrepreneurial Leadership, Strategy of Innovation /

Frameworks for projects delivery or products development are like multivitamin pills – they offer plethora of elements and compounds you can select from depending on your need or challenge. After years of practicing lean and agile frameworks I concluded that there is no conflict between the two – on the contrary, you can benefit from

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Innovation Performance Controlling

Strategy of Innovation /

Implementing innovation strategy within planned resources and estimated timeframe is what management control of innovation is striving to achieve. Management control systems differ depending on type of innovation, measures monitored, and role of innovation portfolio managers in decision-making. Key contemporary approaches for innovation performance controlling are The Innovation Value Chain, Innovation Scorecard, and Stage-Gate system.

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Collaboration strategies – how to partner right?

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One of principle rules in attracting external resources to a starting-up enterprise is to make its expected profits highly plausible to interested parties, including investors. One of approaches toward de-risking planned activities is to bring attention to formal partnerships formed by the company. Having a right partner might increase chances for start-up’s commercial success and

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Disciplined Art of Scaling-Up

Entrepreneurial Leadership, Strategy of Innovation /

In previous post I’ve covered topics related to business formation and new market entry, incl. business model development, prototyping minimal viable product or service, valuating new venture, making it investable, and getting founded. In this post, I relate to a phase of company’s development following market introduction –so called growth phase. G. Duruflé, T.Hellman and

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Design Thinking – Think Big. Start Small. Move Fast.

Strategy of Innovation /

Design Thinking, traditionally used by architects and designers, recently gained popularity in business, in which it is applied to define new business models and to plan start-ups’ acceleration. So what’s design thinking is about, and how you could apply it to what you do? Design thinking means not thinking in sequences, as in typical linear

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Platform Economics – What Matching Users is About?

Entrepreneurial Leadership, Strategy of Innovation /

Nowadays companies can reach valuations exceeding billions of dollars and deliver value the customers look for without even physically owning resources they trade. In times when access to resources is becoming more important than their ownership, economists debate whether we should call this phenomena a sharing economy, community marketplace, or simply uberization of everything. So

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Project Management 3.0 and Large Scale Projects

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Current definition of a project has evolved from temporary endeavors undertaken to create unique product, service or result, as described in PMBOK Guide, to collection of sustainable business values scheduled for realization as defined by dr Harold Kerzner in one of seminars at International Institute for  Learning I was privileged to attend. So what has

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