Using Adverse Conditions to a Company’s Advantage OR Assessing Risk and Reward

Choose ONE of the following discussion question options to respond to:

Using Adverse Conditions to a Company’s Advantage

• Chakravorti (2010) discusses four methods that corporate innovators use to turn adverse conditions to their advantage. Examine an organization of your choice and briefly discuss how the organization might use one of these methods.

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Assessing Risk and Reward

• Using the company of your choice, identify an important and difficult decision that they faced. What were the most important risks and the most important rewards of the decision. What data, analysis or perspective would you have used to help Sr. Management decide if the rewards outweighed the risks?