Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. He traces this dynamic back to Frederick Taylor, who was both an efficiency engineer and a fierce advocate of workplace democracy. Behave less hierarchically! Become a change agent!

Open-book 260

Open-book Books Competitive Advantage Participative 260

Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. Machine learning develops predictive capabilities with a form of number-crunching, a trial-and-error learning process that builds upon statistics and computer science.

Learning-by-Doing 276

Learning-by-Doing Insurance Wireless Discount 276

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

To be innovative is to act with creativity by experimenting with how things get done in ways that are good for you and for the people around you--taking realistic steps aimed at scoring four-way wins. HE ENCOURAGES INNOVATION IN HIMSELF AND OTHERS. A great storyteller must be a great listener.

Learning-by-Doing 129

Learning-by-Doing Audience Open-book Innovation 129

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. Packaging designers developed a six-sided box that allowed them to ship nine filtration systems in a container versus six in a square box, further reducing the costs of production.

Leadership 98

Leadership Automotive System Motivation 98

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. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Innovation Centers. Insight Center.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Curious Cat

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

I have written a few posts on my science and engineering blog about his work over the years including a short post on the first web server (Tim’s NeXT computer). In 1999, I was giving a presentation at a conference on Using Quality to Develop an Internet Resource (link to my paper for the talk was based on).

Health Care 40

Health Care Innovation Follow-up Quality 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. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

International Harvester changed its name to Navistar International in 1986 when it sold its farm equipment business and entered the truck, diesel engine, and bus markets. The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time. No wonder there’s a smile on the box.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. Futurists call them “weak signals.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

In three recent blog posts we looked at the innovation mindset in individuals, profiling game changers Jerry Buss , Peter Jackson , and Shantha Ragunathan. Innovators maintain a laser focus on outcomes , avoid getting caught in the activity trap , and proactively "expand the pie" to make an impact. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Wireless Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Open-book 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. Toyota sometimes talks about the primary goal of improvement efforts to be learning and the development of people, with improved metrics being a secondary goal. Instead of development, we got regression, apparently.

Kaizen 28

Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

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. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. If you're not asking customers all about this before you invest significant resources in the development of your product and marketing, then you are just guessing from a conference room. You don't know better than your market.

Marketing 15

Marketing Press Release Wireless Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

Company 10

Company Insurance Engineering Software 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Another framework for developing a mission statement is to ask three questions: 1) What do we do really well as a company? greater revenue growth 34.7%

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Another framework for developing a mission statement is to ask three questions: 1) What do we do really well as a company? greater revenue growth.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

.” Before long, Lane left GE to join medical device firm Medtronic and within months he was leading the engineering team commercializing an “adaptive cruise control” system to partially automate insulin delivery. Citizen hackers are enabled by technology but they are motivated by passion.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Business Model System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. In 2016, the U.S. Add to Cart.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries.

Chief Technology Officer 12

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

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

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% We see a rich pipeline of innovation ahead in both developed and emerging economies. over the next 50 years.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

Without knowing their place in Indian life, an outsider might take one look at their loud engines and open sides and suggest that rickshaws should be replaced with modern vehicles that are faster, bigger, and more comfortable. Innovation in Cities. Most technological innovation is geared toward the planet’s richer populations.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development. Too many CEOs fall short of these skills.

CEO 8

CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. The new reality for communicators at all levels is that we have to develop deeper, broader and more integrated social media skill sets -- for ourselves, our teams and our businesses. IBM 2012 CEO study.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

For the last 75 years products (both durable goods and software) were built via Waterfall development. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort — and in having products better match customer needs. The Old Days – Waterfall Product Development.

Agility 8

Agility Software Engineering Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians. It includes five health system engineers, five administrative staff, and 15 physicians representing multiple specialities as well as Mayo Clinic sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Georgia.

Quality 8

Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

This is a perfect way to think about the way a brain develops, influenced by its surrounding people and experiences. It's also how we should think about the way the Internet is developing, and about the way our choices in how we use technology are shaping this global brain. But its success has generated a worrying backlash.

Globalization 11

Globalization Film Participative Bottom-up 11

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. But don't take it from me.

Management 11

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live. Papert’s work has had a major impact on how people develop knowledge, and is especially relevant for building twenty-first century skills.

Education 10

Education Human Resources Participative Training 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. As we look to develop competence within a new domain of expertise, moving up a personal learning curve, initially progress is slow. Images copyright 2012 Juan C. Let's do a quick review.

Learning Curve 9

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher!” Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. So venture out.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

That was the question we put to a global community of hackers and innovators in the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. In just two-and-a-half months, we received some 148 entries from leaders, thinkers, and innovators of all stripes, from every corner of the globe. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Innovation Diversity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8