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Beware of the HiPPOs, by Hugh Molotsi

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Beware of the HIPPOs from Hugh Molotsi

Beware of the HIPPOs

Hugh Molotsi explains why Intuit avoids HiPPO decisions, taken on the highest paid person's opinion, like the hippo, the most dangerous animal of the savannah. In its idea jams, customers rather than executives judge the ideas, investing play money in their favourites, and teams are rewarded for the real-world data they collect, because the best-presented idea is rarely the best idea.

Source: Hugh Molotsi, The Intuit Network, Web Archive copy

First published on LinkedIn on December 15, 2014. View the original post

Franck Debane helps large companies build new ventures with Forward Partners: about a hundred programmes in more than 50 companies since 2012. He wrote Passez en mode startup (Eyrolles, 2021) and organises the Lead Innovation Day.