Companies often ask us about open innovation as a way to address this problem, but in many cases, effective open innovation requires more effort from internal resources than they would have imagined.
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Corporations are creating Chief Brand Officer positions in an effort to create internal brand champions and guardians.
We have expended significant internal and external resources in this effort.
Significantly, the internal sabotage of the Pakistan educational reform effort was not a failure of public diplomacy vision.
But White House aides are tempting fate with their reluctant, piecemeal and contradictory disclosures of what they knew and when they knew it, especially about a report on the Internal Revenue Service's 18-month effort to target tea party and other conservative groups for special scrutiny.
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They are also increasingly targeting high-profile Iraqis, presumably in an effort to destabilise the country's internal politics.
The Internal Revenue Service has a low-profile but sweeping effort under way to use state land-transfer records for evidence of omissions in reporting gifts of real estate to family members.
"All the potential effort that these countries are doing painfully for internal devaluation by cutting wages, keeping them below productivity growth and so on can be undone by the strength of the euro, " said economist Nouriel Roubini at an interview in Davos last month.
Some made a deliberate effort to appear that they were coming from the Internal Revenue Service.
Such input has become a valuable way to temper traditional public mistrust toward the government, which historically didn't make much effort to include the public in any of its internal discussions.
The negotiations between senior Fatah and Hamas officials are seen as a last-ditch effort to form a unity government after months of internal fighting, which has left scores dead including more than one hundred in the last month.
This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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This effort at consolidation has extended into North Korea's extensive internal security services as well.
If you perceive your success is due to your effort or your skills, you are likely to have an internal locus of control you believe that this positive result is the effect of something inside yourself.
Any partnership that makes a concerted effort to put its women forward will inevitably encounter some hurdles, both internal and external.
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Its executives and internal security experts such as Michael Howard and Adam Shostack talk openly about the specifics of the Trustworthy Computing effort, its limitations and even its failures.
Internal restructuring is not the only reason for this slowdown (the bank is also in the midst of an overdue effort to improve the quality of its loans), but it is certainly a big factor.
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