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Roy Zwahlen

@rzwahlen

Chief Strategy Officer, UNC Eshelman Institute for Innovation. All about innovation strategy. All views are my own.

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Congrats to Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative for 1st all oral treatment for Sleeping Sickness developed with Sanofi stories.dndi.org/sleepingsickne… Great to see a unique model have impact.

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It was standing room only at tonight's Eshelman Institute for Innovation's Igniting Innovation Symposium. Great presentations of our new start up companies showing their bold, high-risk, high-reward ideas #UNCPharmacy

It was standing room only at tonight's Eshelman Institute for Innovation's Igniting Innovation Symposium. Great presentations of our new start up companies showing their bold, high-risk, high-reward ideas #UNCPharmacy
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Great conversation today with a great entrepreneur Darrian Mikell of Qualifi (HR interview innovation). Want more innovation and more entrepreneurs? We need more pre-seed and seed capital outside of Boston and San Francisco.

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Branding and marketing efforts aimed at claiming #innovation and #entrepreneurship have simply muddied the waters. Here is some clarity from HBR article on the four types of #creativity. hbr.org/2023/01/cultiv…

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ChatGPT cites four areas of innovation: product, process, service, and business model innovation. It does not pull from subscription academic journals (at least for now). Here is a research based view. hbr.org/2017/06/the-4-…

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#Innovation is "something different that creates value." 94% of executives are dissatisfied with their firm's innovation performance. What is getting in the way? Organizational inertia. How to fight it? See this great article. hbr.org/2019/11/breaki…

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Tony Stark's 'do-it-all-by-yourself' innovation approach is fiction. Collaboration is fundamental to #innovation hbr.org/2019/11/cracki…

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#Innovation is great, but how do you build a strategy to successfully go to market? Do you 'build a moat' or do you 'storm a hill'? Do you compete or collaborate? As always, the answer is "it depends." hbr.org/2018/05/strate…

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Lack #innovation? Maybe your company is too risk-averse. Short-term performance metrics cause managers to reject innovative proposals leaving lots of value on the table. hbr.org/2020/03/your-c…

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#Innovation is not randomly throwing paint at a canvas. Yet, over management and too much discipline can kill creativity. Here is a great article on how to balance the paradox necessary to sustain innovation. hbr.org/2019/01/the-ha…

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Efficiency and cost-control management processes are not designed to successfully manage #innovation. We need to shift to a "project-driven organizational structure" to successfully launch the next generation of technologies. hbr.org/2021/11/the-pr…

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The 'Shots on goal' fallacy and what evolution can teach us about breakthrough #innovation. Great read on Flagship Pioneering's emergent discovery culture that delivered Moderna. hbr.org/2021/09/what-e…

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UNC Eshleman School of Pharmacy applying for $100 Million MacArthur grant to sequence/index the human kinome. youtube.com/watch?v=JO7Eg6…