Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. As they spread to all its software development teams, Michael Holm, the company’s CEO and cofounder, began to worry that his leadership team was hindering progress.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

While leaders of many care organizations may be fearful that a new centralized staff function would add to corporate overhead and bureaucracy at a time when they are trying to reduce expenses, becoming adept at the delivery of value-based care requires capabilities that provider organizations currently lack.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. Mayor Thomas Menino launched the Boston Innovation District in 2010 with his fifth inaugural address. Economy Entrepreneurship Innovation' Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

But even as she gained status by getting her PhD and becoming a clinician scientist, she came up against persistent bureaucratic and organizational barriers to innovation. Stinson''s challenge is common at big organizations, but overcoming bureaucracy and breaking down silos is especially critical in healthcare.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

In April 2010, V.R. Frustrated employees were complaining about the lack of amenities — such as child care facilities — on campus and the stifling bureaucracy which, for instance, made expense reimbursment a time-consuming process.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

On August 5, 2010, a mine collapsed in Chile’s Atacama Desert, trapping 33 miners more than 2,000 feet underground. Innovation in Cities. Project engineers possess a wealth of good ideas and creative solutions, but too often these ideas are just not able to carry the day inside the bureaucracy of large capital projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

These new ecosystems with their hundreds of species from flesh-eating sharks to sulphur-metabolizing worms also include "innovative startups" — previously undiscovered new sea animals that have naturally selected to flourish in the unique ecosystem.

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