Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. All that is true, or least should be so, but companies are also forever having to reinvent themselves — IBM, Nucor, and Wipro bear only the faintest resemblance to their founding forms — and boards ought to be at the forefront of those transformations, not rearguard or resistant.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

Often referred to as pacesetters, companies that have chosen to embrace and engage cloud, analytics, mobile, and social strategies are cleaning the clock of their competitors who have chosen the path of cautious resistance or even abstinence. Sandy fed me some support data from their recently published IBM’s 2014 Business Tech Trends Report.

Competitive Advantage 50

Competitive Advantage Trends Bottom-up Loyalty 50

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%.

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Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber has used petitions to demonstrate consumer—and voter—support in at least 10 cities, mostly in North America and Europe, where it has met resistance from local taxi companies. The “Free Our Beer” petition gained more than 400,000 signatures in 2014, equivalent to nearly 4% of the province’s adult population.

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Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Here are six ways to change that.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

But just as vital is continuing to innovate on core product and experience while also building a sustainable model to make sure that all sides (publishers and readers) are deriving value — actual value — from the content, for the long-term. Both launched in 2014.).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. When people sign up for Omada’s offering, they receive a wireless, digital bathroom scale, pedometer, resistance band, and tape measure. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Leverage big data.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. Their number one answer: employee resistance. The first surprise was that few firms adopted the new die, despite indications that it was yielding more pentagons per sheet.

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Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

When Target hired Brian Cornell as CEO in 2014, expectations were high that he would inject fresh energy into one of the largest U.S. On average, they are thus more likely to initiate a shift to a more entrepreneurial and innovative strategy. A new face at the top brings new hopes, and often, new strategic priorities. retail chains.

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CEO Letter Retail Strategy 8

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.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation. In other words, the initial innovations that made Uber dominant also left it vulnerable. Historically, some platforms haven’t embraced localization because the allure of quick scaling was too much to resist. “‘Why us?

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Baker Hughes had resisted Halliburton’s overtures for months before agreeing to the deal, fearing that it would not pass anti-trust muster; it accepted the offer in the end only with a large break-up fee of $3.5 This would reduce options for customers (huge oil companies themselves) and may reduce innovation, they reasoned.

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Guidelines Long-term Short-term Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

I met Metis’s mother in Los Angeles in the summer of 2014. As global director of guest experience and innovation for the Dorchester Collection’s ultra-luxury hotels, I was intrigued because I had a problem I thought Metis could help me solve. We were introduced by a mutual friend.

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Hotels Film Fashion Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products. With barely any legacy infrastructure or status quo to be overcome, the existing commercial landscape feels ready for disruption.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. However, impact investing’s legitimacy as an alternative asset class remains elusive.

Commitment 9

Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

The road map starts with creating an environment for frontline workers to imagine innovative new ways of delivering care. When I was CEO of ThedaCare in Wisconsin, we chose a medical-surgical unit at our Appleton Medical Center in 2007 as the place to develop an innovative process for caring for inpatients we dubbed Collaborative Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

The issue is that Greek “resistance”—not just Syriza’s, but also that of the previous government—takes the form of protecting rent-seekers. growth in late 2014 to a 2.5% The reality, though, is more complicated. To be sure, excessive austerity is bad macroeconomic policy. In a country slipping from 1.8%

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Ability to resist reimbursement pressures. Population-driven innovation. By 2014, more than 1,100 Parkland patients had been safely treated this way. We improve care for patients like these (with diabetes and many other conditions) by using electronic decision support, tracking outcomes, and sharing the data with providers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 170 executives who work in R&D, strategy, and new product development roles at large public companies, we found that 82% said they’ve already deployed some elements of the lean startup approach. “Anticipate resistance and welcome it,” one survey respondent advised.

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Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.” ” A 2014 survey by Deloitte of top U.S. When Hiroshi Yamauchi took over the company in 1948, there was considerable resistance by insiders to innovation. Nintendo has roots back to 1889, as a company making playing cards.

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Management Drucker Survey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. That is exactly why technology-led disruption is generally resisted by status quo interests: at least some of them lose out as a consequence of change.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. I recently spoke to John about his research.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

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. It will surely meet resistance.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

The same software combined with robotics, 3D printing, and myriad other innovations will continue to eliminate jobs throughout the workforce. It was listed as the number one global risk by the World Economic Forum’s 2014 meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Advisory firm IDC predicts that by 2014 there will have been over 76 billion mobile apps downloaded resulting in an app economy worth an estimated thirty five billion in the same year. Resist the temptation to rely too much on a guru; hiring a guru will only take your organization so far.

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Download Content Follow-up Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Advisory firm IDC predicts that by 2014 there will have been over 76 billion mobile apps downloaded resulting in an app economy worth an estimated thirty five billion in the same year. Resist the temptation to rely too much on a guru; hiring a guru will only take your organization so far.

Download 15

Download Content Follow-up Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

The same court rejected that effort in 2014, however, concluding that the agency had failed to identify a source of legal authority from Congress, precipitating the 2015 Order. And that is exactly what House and Senate Republicans proposed in late 2014. That’s because utility treatment comes at a high cost. Not exactly.

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Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8