Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

One of the most common questions I get asked by senior managers is “How can we find more innovative people?” Yet in researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that most great innovators were nothing like the mercurial stereotype. The biggest misconception about innovation is that it’s about ideas.

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Innovation Team Diversity Creativity 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

Innovation 9

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time. However, the full name didn’t have the same meaning as it once did, so we changed one word that encapsulates aspects of our culture, our operating philosophy, and our service to our customers: “Ingenuity.”

Brand 59

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 59

You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Well, as I read through the variety of articles on offer, I picked up ten elements that figure prominently in the cultures of these highly successful organizations. Operating from a platform of respect and civility seems like such a simple thing to do and yet its potential for making productive conversations easier is enormous.

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Diversity CEO Bottom-up Commitment 84

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Philip Morris International Operations Center Lausanne, Switzerland. Charles Bendotti: With more than 77000 global employees at PMI, collaboration for us unlocks unprecedented value and it is a necessity to ensure we can operate effectively. This article first appeared in the April 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine.

Globalization 40

Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

In 1968 Frederick Herzberg reminded us of this in his now-classic Harvard Business Review article entitled “ One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? These managers purport to self-interest, but they are harming everyone including the company itself by operating outside of shared values. People need purpose, especially at work.

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Cooper Motivation Herzberg Maslow 48

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

And they face an even greater challenge: maintaining flawless consistency, while simultaneously being innovative and cutting-edge. Unlike test kitchens of large chains or FMCG products, the team would work in R&D during the winter and then resume restaurant operations during the summer.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation.

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Innovation Company Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 billion by more than 7%.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. The company is, of course, a massive enterprise, with $75 billion in revenues, over 60,000 employees, and a dizzying array of products, from the core search business to the android operating system to nascent businesses like autonomous cars. Innovating the core.

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Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Fifty-eight percent of patients referred to Virginia Mason, our medical center in Seattle, for back surgery would be more appropriately treated without an operation. Long before innovations become commercially available, they are tested and refined as small-scale improvements programmed into an individual medical center’s EMR.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When I met Lane, in 2012, he had just returned from a Medtronic-sponsored skills-based volunteering trip to Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Center in Chennai, India. That passion not only fuels innovation, but it also brings together communities that have common hopes and challenges, and are willing to float ideas and resources.

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Innovation Company Business Model System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? As leaders see their risks to current operations increase, and expected returns from planned investments decrease, it’s likely they’ll face larger growth gaps than they had expected. Growth strategy Innovation' But this is not cause for alarm.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% The next phase will be to use data for new products and other innovations.

Company 9

Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Jobs was an innovator at heart. To this day, Cook continues as one of the best when it comes to operational excellence. It's fascinating to watch where Cook has spent his time at work so far in 2012. Put two-and-two together, and you simply see less innovation with Cook at the top than with Jobs. Cook an executor.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. How Google innovates.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

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.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

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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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. That is good news for the companies involved. Several executives in my study had the same experience.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

opened the first leg of their 2012/13 M-Prize challenge: " Innovating Innovation." This particular challenge — where I'm serving as a judge — seeks "real-world case studies and bold ideas that demonstrate how every element of a company's management model can be retooled to make it innovation-friendly.".

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Case Study Uncertainty McKinsey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Close to 50 years ago, in March 1967, a landmark article described how to change the unit of analysis in medical care from an individual service to a medical episode. Since then, dozens of papers and articles have been written on episodes of care and their incarnation into a payment modality that, today, is referred to as a bundled payment.

Health Care 8

Health Care Analysis Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States.

Transportation 8

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.” We get back to core stuff.”

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. On April 8, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, Texas , disrupting residents and overwhelming 911 operators throughout the day.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization System Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

Rather than relying on happenstance, hailing an auto rickshaw became systematic, especially since the city of Rajkot launched a pioneering model in the form of G-Auto , a city-backed fleet of auto rickshaws, in 2012. Innovation in Cities. Most technological innovation is geared toward the planet’s richer populations.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” In other words, today’s innovators don’t “go global”—globality is baked into their origins. Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. from 2012 to 2014. For Silicon Valley, however, that proportion rises to 45%.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. Start before you need to.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. In a recent interview , Laszlo Bock, SVP of people operations at Google, said, "One of the things we''ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.''s

Education 8

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. In contrast, companies with a long-term orientation are rewarded with a lower cost of capital, which allows them to afford more innovation—a virtuous cycle.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. In 2012, the Pew Charitable Trusts said in its latest State of the News Media report, "the operating margin for Gannett was 9.9%, New York Times 5.4%, McClatchy 15.1%, E.W. Scripps 6.9%

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8