First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 19, 2012

Here is an excerpt from still another outstanding article, written by Oliver Alexy and Markus Reitzig, featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2012), and published by McKinsey & Company.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 4, 2012

Then once a printed or photographed product was copyrighted, people, companies and industries began to protect their printed or photographed intellectual property via copyright protection in a court of law. . Source: Roger Parloff , senior editor, FORTUNE, July 23, 2012.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 22, 2019

That’s what Chris Duffey, creative technologist says about this incredible technology revolutionizing industries the world over. His new book Superhuman Innovation showcases how AI will supercharge the workforce, the world of work, and can be harnessed to deliver powerful change. AI to the Rescue. Read the rest of this post.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

And finally, business model innovation is getting the recognition it deserves. That’s why I was thrilled when my friend and one of business model innovation’s gurus, Saul Kaplan , wrote a must read book sharing his real world experiences - The Business Model Innovation Factory. The Business Model Innovation Factory.

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Experience to Lead

JUNE 8, 2023

After that, he was appointed Deputy Chief Diversity Officer for KPMG International for over two years before he founded the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) in 2012. At the core of CCDI’s approach is the point that IDEA is a business imperative to all business verticals, industries and sectors.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Amy Cuddy – She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history. He speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work. He is the top ranked leadership blogger by Huffington Post. Ron Friedman, Ph.D. –

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 3, 2020

The other side offers raging competition as the internet opens up the market to international players through innovation and technology that is hard to keep up with. Do not dismiss an innovation, thinking it is too early for its implementation. The giant company that was in operation for 130 years came tumbling down in 2012.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

With few natural resources and a lack of major incumbent industry to gravitate towards, Estonia was forced to be entrepreneurial after emerging from Soviet Union occupation in 1991. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. An entrepreneurial nation.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In 2012, the UK government rolled out a policy commonly referred to as the “hostile environment”, through which as unwelcoming an environment for illegal immigrants would be created as possible. “In the higher education sector specifically, internationality is particularly important because of teaching and research.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

After I left Kodak, as a marketing specialist, to take a new leadership position in another industry in 1973, Fujifilm's technology was catching up with Kodak's and by the 1980s Fujifilm had technically surpassed Kodak in nearly all varieties of film. In 2012, Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy. What happened? What did Fujifilm do?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. This generation is the first to be raised in a post-industrial era driven by technology. So how do we lead this generation of rookie talent?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Not only do Hans and I share a common industry, we also took graduate studies at the same university. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. The Top Ten Leadership Commandments (2012) by Hans Finzel.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? Innovation is important in any profession, and leadership development is no exception. Network analysis may change the way we assess leadership potential, lead change, recruit and retain, innovate, and how we collaborate to achieve results.

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Women on Business

MAY 24, 2012

Seventy years have passed since women left the confines of being homemakers and joined the work force en mass. Today, in 2012, there are only 12 Fortune 500 companies are led by women CEO’s. They tested leadership skills from development to problem solving to innovation etc.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 4, 2011

by Alexander Hiam, author of Business Innovations for Dummies. The key to improved results is innovative actions that, while they stick within the limits of your budget, also take you in exciting new directions. Here are some resolutions to help small or mid-sized businesses innovate in 2011. . Be proactive in 2011. .

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 1, 2012

Innovation and Continuous Improvement Come from Personal Mastery. Once you master then innovation inevitably happens.”. Innovation Comes From Standardization of Processes. Innovation comes from mastery. Application to Standardization of Innovation Processes. Standardization is the first step to innovation.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ An Ambassador for Inclusion.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. Even more interesting is that we’re now seeing women lead companies in industries that have been historically male dominated. We have massive silos in all sorts of industries. Increasingly, it’s women. Everyone has heard of “silos” in companies.

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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. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

In commercial, industrial, and government applications—in the real-world usage of machine learning to predict—it's known as: Predictive analytics —Technology that learns from experience (data) to predict the future behavior of individuals in order to drive better decisions. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 17, 2020

The study gathered data on around 13,000 Danish SMEs from 1996 to 2012, with the data revealing that a five-to-seven day period of hospitalization for the CEO resulted in profitability of that business falling by 7% during that year. What’s more, this damage was even more severe if the period of hospitalization is longer.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This webcast shows Tom Rudmik’s presentation, Thriving in the World of Massive Change, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. ” Like Joel Barker, Tom stresses the importance of making a significant effort to understand the innovation around us and plan for a future using the understanding of where we are heading.*.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

“If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” ” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. Bloomberg/Getty Images. This may happen in two ways.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Build a gung-ho culture of learning and innovation. Murphy (AMACOM; November 13, 2012; $24.95 . “With that awareness, the team can plan a strategy for taking home their trophy.” ” Strategy #4: Reinforce relentless learning. Winning tactic: Think gung-ho — a phrase rooted in teamwork. Perkins with Jillian B.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 23, 2015

and Board of Directors, Capital Quality & Innovation. Mike Tveite, Statistician, Polaris Industries. Edwards Deming Institute 2014 Fall Conference, Oct 16-19 – 2013 Annual Deming Conference Recap: Homecoming At Purdue – The Neuroscience of Deming (2012 conference). Kevin Cahill , Executive Director, The W.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2012

What’s your industry reputation? How do both leaders and vendors perceive you in your industry? What are you doing to innovate it? They don’t have to talk about their competition – Apple is the innovator. Interview industry leaders. Create internal excitement about innovation and new ideas. Are you Amazon?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. That is hard no matter what size you are, no matter what industry you're in.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. New Skills Required.

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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. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Transformative CEO : Impact Lessons from Industry Game Changes. Innovating and making everything better. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. by Jeffrey J. Fox and Robert Reiss. About the Reference. The Transformative CEO by Jeffrey J. Building superior customer service. Thinking big and going global.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

Family firms aren’t typically thought of as particularly innovative. However, many family-owned businesses are among the most innovative in their industries. There are countless other examples of family firms that have brought innovations to market. The level of innovation is higher in family firms.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

Sure, it's an industry show, and the press here understands technology, but how do you think they will communicate about your product if all you give them is tech specs? This is a year-long problem in the industry, but it's especially pronounced this week. For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology. Too much ego.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The same sentiment was behind Twitter’s announcement in 2012 of an Innovator’s Patent Agreement, designed so that “employees can be assured that their patents will be used only as a shield rather than as a weapon.”. Instead, we treat patenting as a natural right, she said, ignoring the adverse impact on innovation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So with apologies to those who don't share this passion, I present to you the September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival, NFL Kick-off Edition. Dr. Anne Perschel takes us on a tour of French Forests and the Cognac industry, to learn why leaders need to create a 400 year business plan and how to get started. Miami Dolphins.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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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.

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