Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

I share this story with students in the courses I teach and I jokingly tell them, as I finish the story, that I learned one valuable lesson that day….not 2015, November). I asked with some frustration in my voice. But Mr. Stilwell, this is my real life, right now.”. Pause… “I guess it is,” I replied. End of conversation. Richardson, W.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2015

As a result change and course corrections are easily implemented. Innovation and creativity thrive in new organizations. It will be uncomfortable for some whose main desire is a smooth operation, but growth is not smooth. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Formal Organization. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

And our open curriculum is the University trusting in us saying “we don’t know every course you’ll need to make your impact on the world. And then a friend in the Class of 2015, Yao Lui, was visiting Ghana with a Brown-founded medical nonprofit. Only you can discover that.” It was a beginning.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

And our open curriculum is the University trusting in us saying “we don’t know every course you’ll need to make your impact on the world. And then a friend in the Class of 2015, Yao Lui, was visiting Ghana with a Brown-founded medical nonprofit. Only you can discover that.” It was a beginning.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Without mapping a course, how can any organization reach a destination? Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Faster innovation. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Research shows they can be cut in half.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Unilever, for example, has found that its sustainable living brands are growing 30% faster than the rest of its business and in 2015 delivered nearly half the company’s total growth. I call this new breed of companies the “inclusive innovators.” Segment the SDGs. You can see these focus areas in the chart below. (In

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Of course, low productivity can depress wages, but in recent decades, wages haven’t grown as much as expected even during periods of robust economic productivity growth.

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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?”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff. .” Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. Of course, the shuttered stores, depressed execs, and tanking stocks suggest otherwise. Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. Of course, there are some limitations to our methods.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course). Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

The speed of technological innovation and industry demands is moving faster than higher education’s ability to adapt. Business courses are available across devices, in multiple languages, at the school’s campuses in France, China, and Morocco as well as on “pop-up” campuses in emerging markets, such as West Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. Innovation comes from courageous people with an entrepreneurial spirit. infrastructure problems.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

In February, as part of an FAA spending bill, Congress ordered the agency to develop rules by 2015 that would allow military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. That last phrase, of course, is a big "unless." He asked the operators to relocate their activities, and they did.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

In 2015 the Army informed Riley that, because of his time away, he was not being promoted alongside 90% of his peers to the rank of 1st lieutenant and he would soon be facing a board to determine whether he should be separated from the Army altogether. That was where the trouble began. Today he continues to wear the uniform.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” Dell was responding to a 2015 PwC survey of more than a thousand CEOs, a number of whom cited “curiosity” and “open-mindedness” as leadership traits that are becoming increasingly critical in challenging times. The notion that curiosity can be good for business is not entirely new, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. The Port of Miami Tunnel was completed roughly on time and under budget, thanks to the Miami-Dade County’s financing partner Meridiam and the group it formed to build and operate the tunnel.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S. Of course, corporate leaders claim that they are legally bound to do everything possible to maximize shareholder value. wage to 11 million workers — considerably more than our 7.8 million citizens who are currently unemployed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. Despite flouting straightforward, widely applicable law in most jurisdictions, Uber usually managed to slow or stop enforcement, in due course changing the law to allow its approach. But Archive.org kept a copy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. ” Insight Center. Project Credibility. Communicate Effectively (Even Virtually).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. In 2015, it had been one of Wall Street’s most favored alternative energy companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. billion in net economic benefit between 2009 and 2011 and is on course to cut region-wide power plant carbon pollution by half from 2005 to 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. Of course not. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

After all, in 2015 Nucor recycled 17 million tons of scrap. Basically, unable to innovate their core offering, airlines have figured out a way to innovate in the way costs are allocated. Of course, Southwest is a lone bright spot in an otherwise stagnant industry. There is no Plan B.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The ability to meet challenges with a willingness to depart from standard operating procedures; to confront anxiety, tolerate criticism, take intelligent risks, and refute conventional wisdom—especially one’s own views—in order to achieve breakthroughs” is what Jonah Sachs calls unsafe thinking. W E ALL GET STUCK IN RUTS. Thinking ruts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In 2015 U.S. The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. Of course, not all of that $1 billion will be due to the CEO. In the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns. Generations of Filipinos have been raised on Hollywood movies, Friends , the NBA, and of course, Facebook. For example, American services marketplace Thumbtack leverages close to 1,000 home-based contractors in the Philippines to help with business operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

A broad, seemingly impossible systemic goal like this might seem like a social responsibility or public relations strategy — and of course it has those elements. The company has been developing vehicles that help the world meet its carbon reduction goals, including most prominently the 2015 F-150 truck. It’s brave.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Given our staff’s nimbleness, willingness to experiment, and strong relationships with the hospital’s leaders (in addition to external factors in our region), our board of directors concluded that pursuing strategic partnerships was the best course. If not, can we become the best on our own? A culture of shared values.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This is the kind of worry, as I discussed in an earlier piece , that is driving many state and local governments to enact bans and restrictions on the use of unmanned aircraft in advance of 2015 FAA rules that will allow them into US airspace. Assuming, of course, that existing laws are found not to apply, or to apply effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

And third, various machine-learning techniques should be combined to effectively identify insights and foster innovation. When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate? Stitch Fix, which lives and dies by the quality of its suggestions, has no choice but to do better.

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