Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

To be innovative is to act with creativity by experimenting with how things get done in ways that are good for you and for the people around you--taking realistic steps aimed at scoring four-way wins. HE ENCOURAGES INNOVATION IN HIMSELF AND OTHERS. A great storyteller must be a great listener.

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Learning-by-Doing Audience Open-book Innovation 129

Mike Cardus

JULY 5, 2012

Below are the 25 most popular blog posts from April 19 2008 to July 5 2012, by pageviews according to google analytics. I don’t think these are my 25 best or even the 25 most useful. And this is what people are searching for and how they are finding articles I have written.

Team Building 127

Team Building Team Leadership Sample 127

Deming Institute

MARCH 6, 2017

What works to grow and sustain business over the long term is to focus on the desires of customers (including potential customers) and continually improve your organization’s ability to delight those customers (which includes innovation and process improvement).

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Deming Long-term System Conference 31

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. His firm grew explosively during the 90s and right up through 2008, constructing offices and high-end homes for the technological elite.

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P&L Construction Survey Stress 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

” Nonetheless, when the crisis hit in the Fall 2008, the financial world seemed to be blind-sided. Both were defined by financial innovations that seemed to defy the natural law of risk and reward, by promising a high yield and low risk. StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Panic of 1907 vs Great Recession of 2008.

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Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The same sentiment was behind Twitter’s announcement in 2012 of an Innovator’s Patent Agreement, designed so that “employees can be assured that their patents will be used only as a shield rather than as a weapon.”. Instead, we treat patenting as a natural right, she said, ignoring the adverse impact on innovation.

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Innovation Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Software 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Curious Cat

MAY 13, 2015

Hunter: An Innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement. One project he did take on, along with George Box, was creating the Center of Quality and Productivity Improvement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. George’s speech about Dad’s work provides a nice look at how work and life – William G.

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System Travel Software Career 40

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? Trouble often starts with the brand management itself – the loss of direction, the inability to inject innovation, the failure to recognize customer evolution, the lack of understanding of what the brand is and what it is not. This company lost $5 billion in 2012 and hasn’t made a profit since 2008.

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Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience. The authors are ex-DARPA leaders now running an innovation group at Motorola Mobility, which Google acquired in 2012.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. Iger used the Pixar and Marvel purchases to convince George Lucas to sell them Lucasfilm (for about $4 billion) in 2012. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation.

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Creativity Franchising Succession Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). percentage points in 2003-2012. This was obvious during the financial crisis in 2008, when the government invested about 4 trillion RMB to enhance growth. It contributed 1.4

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. For the 2008 Games, China built a spectacle of unmatchable scale , with a budget of some $80 billion. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less."

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Larry Lessig’s excellent 2008 book explains how this cultural remix creates new art. It is not surprising, then, that Google searches for business news using the term “mergers” peaked in 2008. Interest in “innovation,” on the other hand, has risen more strongly and continues unabated. I’ll extend that idea to business.

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Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

billion on these social sites by 2012. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive. Avon was one of the few companies to chart growth during the 2008-2009 recession. And guess what?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share. In effect, it becomes a sort of coherent conglomerate.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Reading HBR's List of Audacious Ideas is the perfect way to start 2012. The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. The real magic is in process innovation. The new reality is austerity. But that should only be fiscal reality.

Company 12

Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

That choice cuts to the heart of Alibaba, according to Porter Erisman, who served as a vice president at the company from 2000 to 2008, and whose documentary on his time there debuted in 2012. Though Ma’s apartment no longer serves as a rite of passage for Alibaba’s innovators, the culture it created lives on.

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Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Between 2001 and the end of 2008, for example, no less than 15 U.S. Around 2008, however, something unexpected occurred. The turnaround can’t be attributed to a bold, Da Vinci-esque initiative such as new carbon fiber aircraft, the pioneering of new markets or even low-cost innovation. In 2012, the major U.S.

Airlines 8

Airlines Industry Transportation Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In a study I published in 2008 , for example, eight months after 173 employees of a small city in California were trained in creativity competencies, managers were still receiving 55% more new ideas than they had been receiving before the training, and city officials attributed $600,000 in new revenues and $3.5 HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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Creativity Core Competence McClelland Team 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

European nations, so often criticized for stifling innovation in a tangle of tradition and regulation, have decisively leapfrogged the United States on this issue. France plans to impose a 20 percent quota by 2012 and double it to 40 percent by 2016 for the country's 2,500 largest companies.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Like many easy narratives, this one is not quite right.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2021

The researchers collected data on nearly 750 titles produced between 2008 and 2012, with information on the development team for each game. The gaming industry was chosen because so many games are released each year and gaming fans are very vocal about their preferences.

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Succession Project Wilde Sample 122

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. And not just their parents.

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Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But The Washington Post , which billionaire Jeff Bezos agreed to buy yesterday , had been losing money since 2008. But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. — dubbed a moat, which keeps competitors out and customers in.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The basic facts were established in a 2012 study by The Bridgespan Group in the Stanford Social Innovation Review , which looked at the more than 200,000 nonprofit organizations founded between 1975 and 2008 to determine how many had grown to $50 million or more in annual revenues. The answer? 201 — just 1%.

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Metrics Innovation Diversity Organization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Starbucks launched MyStarbucksIdea.com , in 2008, to get ideas from consumers, and has so far received more than 100,000 submissions from consumers around the world. In 2012 the party decided that it would crowdsource its platform instead of determining it internally. Some organizations have successfully mined its potential.

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Politics Organization Learning-by-Doing Motivation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Despite secondary-school enrollment increasing by 48% from 2000 to 2008 , access to university education remains severely limited. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. Even at three times the U.S.

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Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In fact, as recently as 2012, a Gallup poll revealed that 40% of U.S. According to a 2008 survey , the vast majority of professionals (94%) worked 50 hours or more a week, and almost half worked more than 65 hours a week. Unfortunately, this story of impending burnout is not unusual.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Metrics How To 15

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line Harvard Business Review, November 2012. North America Sees Lowest Levels of Employee Engagement since 2008 Canadian HR Reporter, May 2013. NEWS, January 2012. The Power of Empowerment TED Magazine, December, 2012. Your Company Needs a Purpose ERE.net, November 2012.

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Article CFO Magazine Library 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Consider the following examples: In 2007-2008, a former Credit Suisse Group AG trader committed wire fraud and manipulated the books on mortgage-backed securities to enhance performance and boost year-end bonuses. In 2012, a JP Morgan Chase & Co trader, nicknamed the London Whale , led the Chief Investment Office to lose $6.2

Compliance 8

Compliance Company Self-aware Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

By innovating, operating efficiently, and exploiting market niches, Zhang has confronted well-established manufacturers of the North on their own territory and used his success there as leverage to win in the global game. This is their only purpose. Our purpose in exporting is to establish a brand reputation.".

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

We saw after the 2008 recession how men lost their jobs in greater numbers than women. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. The gender gap has continued to widen since then.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Pieri is the Co-founder and CEO of The Grommet, a retail site devoted to promoting innovative, undiscovered products and the stories behind their makers. In 2012, Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten invested in The Grommet and the company has been soaring ever since.

Learning Curve 11

Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Retail Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. From 2008 to 2015 SCA’s revenue rose 88% (from $690 million to $1.3 OSI’s revenue are 65% higher than they were in 2012, and its valued has doubled.

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CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8