It was King Shaka's innovation of the amabutho system that became a cornerstone of the Zulu Empire and created the team spirit and camaraderie that would enable the Zulu impi to conquer an empire larger than Western Europe.

And, at the same time, holds the key to the one critical success factor of the modern innovators: Hyper-Collaboration, in other words to ability to collaborate deeply with other innovator and co-create new products and services.

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