Not Invented Here-ism: Most academic and commercial BPM activity occurred, and continues to occur, outside the US, mostly in Europe.

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At the January meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Pierre met the heads of the MacArthur and Rockefeller foundations, who moaned how poorly their grants were spent, or how they can't copy another program's success because of a "not invented here" bias.

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To create an economy that is built to last, we must ensure that the next generation of products are not only invented here, but manufactured here as well.

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Most financial services firms have been deeply afflicted with the Not-Invented-Here mentality.

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Aside from often being stinkers, pilots can suffer from the "not-invented-here syndrome, " as Levin calls it: the perception that once something is damaged or didn't work, it cannot be resuscitated elsewhere.

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Had we regulated the electronics industry as tightly as the medical industry, then much of the diagnostic and informatic equipment that we now take for granted would not have been invented here.

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