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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. There are two ways to set revenue targets.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. How do we add value in ways that others do not?

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Personalized Technology Will Upend the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Harvard Business Review

As with the original Gold Rush of the 1840s, we believe two principal business models will emerge: Goldminers , who dig deep in one major area, and Bartenders , who offer customized and convenient options to address routine needs. The Bartender strategy represents a much more dramatic transformation.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. On the use side of the water issue, companies with products that depend on water in production (beverages) or in use (shampoo, apparel) are also seeing the writing on the wall and getting creative.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Hack by Valeria Budinich, Ashoka.