Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. .” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. Too often, proposals that look great in PowerPoint turn out to be unappealing, unhelpful, or unworkable to the people whom the success of an idea ultimately depends. farming communities, accomplishes several things.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations. The proposed rules are vague and incomplete, where they could easily be straightforward and even obvious. But are the delays justified?

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. The “Free Our Beer” petition gained more than 400,000 signatures in 2014, equivalent to nearly 4% of the province’s adult population. In the U.S.,

Licensing 9

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. Data Is Deglobalizing.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Looking ahead to 2014, one of the most urgent issues will be a new war for talent: not yesteryear’s broad-based need for all top talent but an increasing demand for the right kind of talent. How can leaders leverage and develop diverse talent in 2014? What does it take to consistently drive growth and innovation?

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EPS Diversity Innovation Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

During the presidential campaign, Americans will be bombarded with proposals to improve the U.S. These trends likely result in market-share gains for providers that deliver high quality at lower costs. health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

product placement market grew by 12.8% in 2014, to over $6 billion, and is set to reach over $11 billion by 2019. The trouble is that the huge success of product placement is causing a dip in its credibility and effectiveness as a marketing channel. This leaves marketers scratching their heads. Research by Eva A.

Bond 8

Bond Productivity Products Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

President Obama’s new raft of proposals aim to address the growing concern that America is not taking tough-enough action against the increasing cybersecurity problem of nation-states and criminals (usually criminal gangs) attacking U.S. The cornerstones of the proposal are to: Prohibit the sale of botnets and similar tools.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2015

The “them” the leader was referring to were zombie projects: the nefarious enemies of well-intentioned innovation efforts around the globe. We had suggested that at least one reason why the company was struggling to successfully commercialize innovative ideas was that zombies were draining its resources and clogging its pipeline.

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Project How To Innovation Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve. Leadership would shape the conversation to ensure proposals were strategically on-point. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

the approach to digital privacy has been more piecemeal: in effect, it is predicated in part on the idea that the ability of companies to collect, analyze, sell and monetize user data with minimal restrictions is the basis for an innovative digital industry; new users are drawn by free services and companies make money from the data collected.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. It intends to open two more warehouses and add 300 more employees in 2014. BuildDirect encourages its people to propose imaginative, off-the-wall, and even downright weird ideas.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. To achieve those ends, we propose that business leaders support a new agenda, comprising seven areas of opportunity.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 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. After an assessment phone call that includes PBGH, HDP, as well as physicians and administrators from the health system under consideration, an extensive request for proposal is sent for completion.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Why did it take until 2014 for the world’s second-largest toy maker to offer girls (and their toy-buying parents) products they might actually want? The new ‘Research Institute’ range was proposed by geoscientist Ellen Kooijman on one of the company’s crowd-sourcing sites. In business, this is what we call a market opportunity.)

Management 14

Management Niche Marketing Retail Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

However, I fear the Burr-Feinstein proposal could have just the opposite effect. companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. market accounts for more than $1 trillion.).

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

The EU has spent twenty years trying to create the kind of market conditions needed for explosive growth seen elsewhere in the digital economy. VCs provide the funds that fuel every significant innovation in the region and beyond. or even Silicon Valley, has figured out every legal hack that would make innovation flourish.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

For example, one of her key proposals is for shares to be held well beyond the current minimum period of one year before the profits from their sale are taxed as a capital gain. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

cleantech innovation declined from 2014 to 2016, as measured by patents. as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India. America appears to be pulling back on cleantech innovation when it can least afford to do so.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Kleiner Energy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

But for Catalyst, the pharmaceutical company that purchased the North American rights to a slightly modified formulation of 3,4 DAP (Firdapse) in 2012, the drug represented a market opportunity to the tune of $300 million to $900 million annually ($60,000 to $100,000 or more per patient).

Price 14

Price Pharmaceuticals Company Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

According to an analysis by Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University, in 2014 nearly one-third of new H-1B visas went to 13 of these so-called “outsourcers.” on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. What Could Change?

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

The 1984 Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act gave pharmaceutical companies exclusive protections for innovating a new drug. If they brought a new therapy to life, they enjoyed patent protection to effectively monopolize the market. During this time, no other companies can market a generic product. Not anymore.

System 12

System Pharmaceuticals Company Sample 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Perhaps most radical of all, however, is what the NBP didn’t propose. This time period has also seen new entrants to the infrastructure market, notably Google Fiber, whose early deployments in Kansas City and elsewhere provide important insights. EU digital divide ).

Wireless 8

Wireless Policies Proposal Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

His pick for Labor Secretary is staunchly opposed to covering overtime pay or increasing minimum wages (something many leading companies have been doing on their own since 2014. Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy even proposed taxing U.S. days of innovation). goods if the country pulled out the Paris agreement.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8