Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation.

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Curious Cat

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you would limit yourself to paying attention to 5 thinkers to advance your understanding of managing organizations Ackoff should be one of them. Of course, many managers don’t even try to learn from 5 leading management thinkers to do their jobs better over their career.

System 40

System Deming Conference Storytelling 40

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. In 2007, I was advising the credit union industry of America, reminding them that their upcoming 100th anniversary in 2009 would provide outreach opportunities for chapter members around the country. Benchmarking.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? Disruptive innovation India'

Technology 11

Technology Innovation CRM Retail 11

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Sadly, it didn’t take very long to realize that the plant had a very traditional management style, very traditionally combative labor/management relations, and a typical blame-and-shame, command-and-control environment that made people miserable and didn’t deliver quality to the customer or any of the right business results.

Kaizen 28

Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Still skeptical?

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). South Korea''s Public and Private Infrastructure Investment Management Center has saved 35% on its infrastructure budget by rejecting 46% of the projects it reviews, compared with only 3% previously.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

These are important traits, but it’s equally important for managers to stand down and listen up. ” Su had a client who was strong, passionate, and innovative. Case Study #1: Create an environment conducive to listening. Case Study #2: Don ’t let personality traits get in the way.

How To 8

How To Case Study Charan Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. Managing customer advocacy programs. Needed: A Customer Advocacy Apps Exchange. Corporations with Facebook pages can't (or simply don't) do this, either.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Conference Software Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Managers who want to recognize employees for good work have many tools at their disposal. However, managers in most companies have a good deal of input into the decision, and in some cases they are the ultimate decision makers. It's critical that managers make these decisions about promotions and raises carefully. "I

Learning-by-Doing 16

Learning-by-Doing Motivation Case Study Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers. There is not a "thing" to manage. Is a business built on volunteers manageable? We want innovation, but without experiencing failure.

Marketing 17

Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling.

Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. ” In this case, McDonald set out to transform the design of VA to help the organization better achieve its mission for veterans. The stakes, in other words, were high.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s initial failure in great detail (the company relaunched earlier this year). Marrion Barraud for HBR.

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8