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HBR on INSPIRING & EXECUTING INNOVATION: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on INSPIRING & EXECUTING INNOVATION Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to create and then deliver new or better products and services This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in HBR.

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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge.

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Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! There is just one little problem. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. HBR's 11 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011. by Vijay Govindarajan. Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. by Heidi Grant Halvorson. by Rob Wheeler.

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The Three-Box Approach to Business Model Reinvention: Putting the Idea into Practice

Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan's and Chris Trimble's article, " The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention ," appeared in our January-February 2011 issue. To give readers a sense of how to apply the approach to their own setting, we interviewed Vijay Govindarajan and Brian Goldner, the CEO of Hasbro, Inc. Box 3: Create the future.

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The Most Intriguing HBR Blog Posts of 2010

Harvard Business Review

A post that neatly distilled a problem, framed an important question, and led to much commentary was Vijay Govindarajan's The $300 House: A Hands-On Lab for Reverse Innovation? We hope you'll visit our blogs regularly in 2011 and participate in the conversation. And that's only a dip into the ocean here.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. And an August 2010 blog by Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar challenged designers to create a house for $300 and set off a campaign to re-invent housing for the world's poorest people, building on C.K. Who is the most influential living management thinker?

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James. The "new normal" of constant change requires mastering perpetual transformation. Why is innovation so hard? Who are your influences?