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The Innovation Traps

April 15, 2005

Emerging opportunities for innovation are often obscured by current business concerns. Managing ongoing growth or dealing with imminent performance issues — as important as they are — tend to ensnare companies into innovation traps that are difficult to escape unless such trap avoidance is a conscious strategy.

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