Coaching Tip

MARCH 13, 2011

Google clearly hopes to recapture some of the nimbleness and innovative spirit of its early years. Let the engineers do their stuff. Once they had some working theories, they figured out a system for interviewing managers to gather more data, and to look for evidence that supported their notions.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? Here are a few reasons I could think of: Checklist can be a progressive database of your knowledge on building certain type of systems. People get blinded so much by checklist that they stop innovating, experimenting and learning. Why checklists?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Cambridge, U.K.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). How to define your vision Jim Collin’s suggests asking three questions to determine your vision ( Jim Collin’s Vision Framework ): What can you be world best at?

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). How to define your vision Jim Collin’s suggests asking three questions to determine your vision ( Jim Collin’s Vision Framework ): What can you be world best at?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Worse still, Bob’s behavior and the accolades he receives simply reinforce the notion that everyone should work around the system. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Health care systems are transforming themselves to deliver the “Triple Aim” of providing better care and a better patient experience, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care. The boards set the standards and decide whether the physicians have completed this requirement based on the results submitted to them.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Refreshingly direct and right to the point, this system is based on 12 years of research and thousands of sales prospect interviews. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. He left behind a lovely wife and 3 small children. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, In August 2011, consumers in Mexico's fifth largest urban area, Toluca, were offered a new product, PureIt , a home water purifier that enabled them to not have to lug 40-pound garrafones (bottles) of drinking water to their homes from the grocery store.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Setting up a Criteria Ranking System There are different ways to set up a system. When choosing your system put them all on the same scale 1 to 3, 1 to 5, 1 to 10 so that you can better align each factor with each other. XY-Axis by ideaWallets – Use a Cartesian coordinate system to sort your ideas and find patterns.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Setting up a Criteria Ranking System There are different ways to set up a system. When choosing your system put them all on the same scale 1 to 3, 1 to 5, 1 to 10 so that you can better align each factor with each other. XY-Axis by ideaWallets – Use a Cartesian coordinate system to sort your ideas and find patterns.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

This decision promises to accelerate the flood of patent litigation, which shows that the recent America Invents Act does not go far enough to fix the patent system. This case is but one example of patents discouraging further research and innovation. The unpredictable boundaries and the increase in litigation discourage innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. To obtain an understanding of the costs, the center is applying a combination of two management tools: process mapping from industrial engineering and activity-based costing from accounting. Kaplan and Michael E.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted to master developing microcontroller-based systems, but had never had the opportunity in practice, because no company there offered it. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Our system is at risk due to increasing inequality.”. The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. “Inequality is bad.” Inequality is dangerous.” “Our

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. It started with just a few dozen people, but as we grew, (2977 employees have attended our yearly summit as of January 2011) I would inevitably get questions about how long we could keep holding such a meeting. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. Consumer demand for innovative digital services, when executed ably, seems unquenchable; and that demand is stimulating capital flows. An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Make the tough calls on people.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

America's higher education system is a magnet for talented leaders from all over the world. has become a Mecca for international scientists, engineers and business students — particularly those undertaking graduate studies. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo''s CEO, ended the company''s work-from-home policy to foster a more collaborative, innovative environment. Build smart support systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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Ask Atma

MAY 6, 2011

[A 5 minute talk given at LA Hackers on April 23, 2011 at Coloft]. My goal is to teach whoever is ready to re-engineer their business, startup, or organization. Wiring in innovation as a cultural behavior. Hacking your management system. My name is Atma. I am an industrial psychologist. Super Group Networks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc. Microsoft is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Recent headlines have been foreboding, highlighting concerns that the retrenchment could leave the most promising engines of global economic growth sputtering. Ensuring customer support through cutting-edge systems and IT will be critical, as will the ability to tap online, mobile, social, and analytic innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

As Levie put it, “in this industry, people already think they have innovated if they have painted a grey wall green.” In both 2010 and 2011, TripAdvisor voted citizenM “The Trendiest Hotel in the World.” You can’t] create a boat that has an engine, is a row boat and a sailboat all in one.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

They spend long hours over the years to understand, study, apply and innovate ideas in this core area. In my experience, the key to remain innovative in your core area is to find an ‘alternative’ – a creative pursuit that you love, that is different from your normal work and where you spend at least a few hours in a week.

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Building Personal Strength

JULY 8, 2011

Atlantis - 2011 NASA photo Less than an hour ago, the space shuttle Atlantis launched safely into space to link up with the International Space Station. And engineers have no answer for it. The futurists never talk about this when they theorize about building sexy super-fast propulsion systems. Copyright 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. We are always on the agenda of the executive team and are a significant part of the leadership meetings,” says Bert van Meurs, CMO of Philips Healthcare Imaging Systems. That was very helpful.”.

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