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agility and openness needed for new thinking.
As development teams became more productive
and their initiatives more predictable, incremental
improvements soared, project managers got
promoted – and radical innovation declined.
Companies soon began spending less and less
time on breakthrough ideas. At BCG we’ve found
that radical projects nowadays account for roughly
10% o b