Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. Best Leadership Books of 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Innovation cycles speed up and time-to-market goes down, and the resulting changes in the value chain compound customer demand for quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort — and in having products better match customer needs. Adobe and Tesla offer two examples.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

In a world of higher existential risk, agility of mind, flexibility in organization and redundancy in capacity will be critical factors in mastering the kind of complex risks and opportunities we increasingly face. His book CQ — Creative Intelligence , will be published by HarperCollins in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. There is so much to learn, borrow, and build upon in these winning entries when it comes to how we can use the principles, and tools of the Web to make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Story by Jim Lavoie.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. During 2012, Shuttleworth’s team took the prototypes and built them into draft products.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

November is National Entrepreneurship Month and, as someone who works with small business owners on a daily basis and knows how hard it is to grow a business, I can’t overstate how much I appreciate the creativity, innovation and hard work of today’s entrepreneur. It’s important to know that so you can invest in visibility or communications.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. 63% of firms reported that they expect to invest greater than $10 million in Big Data by 2017, up from 24% in 2012. 54% of firms say they have appointed a Chief Data Officer, up from 12% in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

of the GDP on healthcare in 2012. To meet these challenges, we believe academic medicine must embrace disruptive innovation in its core missions: educating the next generation of health professionals, offering comprehensive cutting-edge patient care, and leading biomedical and clinical research. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. A third example is Airbnb, now valued at $25.5

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