Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed. (To Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. However, the quality of work will always be crucial. Perhaps now is finally the time for this staple of working life to also experience the transformational impact of new technologies.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Suppressing Innovation. Not Listening.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Don’t answer the question with technologies, offerings, or categories.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

It’s often not much more complicated than studying the patient’s needs, studying the work, and respecting and engaging team members to have a say in how processes, technology, and spaces are designed and utilized. The beatings (and blaming and punishing) will continue until quality and safety improve? Why was the payment delayed?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

During those two years, I got to see and be part of a great, mission-driven company’s effort to grapple with moving into the 21st century, trying — for the first time in its existence, really — to be innovative and find new paths to growth. It was also a resounding failure. But the exercise wasn’t a complete failure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. That vestiges of old technologies linger on, capable of being resurrected into viable businesses again, doesn’t seem strange to us. cut of sales.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Ford invested heavily in digital initiatives only to see its stock price lag due to cost and quality issues elsewhere in the company. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. The Launch. What features would make the site inviting, accessible, and useful?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

They are convinced that if people can shop freely for the plans they want and insurers must compete actively for their business, everyone will gain: customers will get coverage that matches their preferences, and insurers will become more cost- and quality-conscious than they now are. Not all of these innovations will succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

I could not be a bigger proponent of technology. My day job as a venture capitalist focuses on innovations in digital media and big data, and new models of business information and community connectivity. In fact, it is quite clear that in many instances it has diluted the quality and relevance of our conversations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. A similar phenomenon happened in the 1980s, when quality became a significant issue for manufacturers. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. In order to accomplish this, proposals will largely focus on what is termed “wasteful spending” in health care, spending not associated with improved quality that, by some estimates , accounts for over one-fourth of total health care spending. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In my work on complex systems procurement (PDF) and participation in project and program reviews, the only variable more important than the quality of the people doing the work was the integrity of the individuals responsible for governance. These are issues of character and culture, not technology and money. Leadership Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

During the summer of 2014 alone $3 billion poured into India’s e-commerce sector, where, in addition to local innovators like Flipkart and Snapdeal, there are nearly 200 digital commerce startups flush with private investment and venture capital funds. Even Amazon localized its approach in India to offer COD as a service.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. As the 24 th biggest industrial consumer of water, Coca Cola has now invested $2 billion to reduce water use and improve water quality in the communities in which it operates. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Any product that requires some expertise to use is a candidate for analytics innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Unfortunately, health care as an industry continues hiring far faster than demand is growing, adding 119,000 new workers in the first half of 2013, for example, with little increase in patient volume. For example, new innovative reimbursement models aim to reward providers for lowering health care costs on the supply side.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Without such data it is simply too easy for competitors to let you do the hard work of innovation, then copy your insights and erode your competitive advantage. There, he introduced the contrasting notions of "infrastructure" and "proprietary" technologies. This logic applies directly to data.

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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. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Toward the end of last year, one of the first platishers, Say Media, announced it was selling off its publishing properties to focus on its technological platform. But these differences are largely cultural.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Innovation in Cities. Competition in forming accurate forecasts will incentivize such firms to design high-quality, useful forecasts. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. Think BlackBerry, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

1) Each is based on relationship quality rather than production volume; as a result, each is smaller than the average U.S. Thanks to lower overhead, she is able to earn a full-time salary working part time. ”It’s actually very easy to run a solo ideal medical clinic in 2013,” she said. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Among the approved recommendations were opportunities to save nearly $4 million in HR administrative cost by deploying more self-service technology supported by a shared services organization, nearly $8 million from insourcing second physician reviews of inpatient charts, and up to $3.5 Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. innovative alternatives. Individual empowerment. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges! '.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments. Here, the government’s innovative capacity shone through.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation.

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