Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

Recently, space and automotive titan Elon Musk said the machine-over-mankind threat was humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” On the other hand, work that requires a high degree of imagination, creative analysis, and strategic thinking is harder to automate. Sponsored by SAS.

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Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

His new book, “ The 4 Lenses of Innovation “, examines the thinking patterns or perspectives that have been catalysts for breakthrough innovation throughout human history, and shows you how to use these perspectives to infuse creativity into your own organization.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Asking tough questions has become a hallmark of AT&T research culture and has helped to establish Bell Laboratories as one of the great creative institutions in America. The best firms are diligent about uncommon things — for example, asking creative questions. Too often, schools turn diligence into drudgery. PERSEVERANCE.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Asking tough questions has become a hallmark of AT&T research culture and has helped to establish Bell Laboratories as one of the great creative institutions in America. The best firms are diligent about uncommon things -- for example, asking creative questions. Too often, schools turn diligence into drudgery.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

You have a book that teaches creativity, one that teaches how to test and validate those ideas, and now this one which is unique. “If you keep following the edges and watch what the youngsters are doing, it gives you a pretty good idea of what’s coming.” Indra Nooyi. Lessons from Tesla versus Edison.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

The study of mindfulness — often defined as paying attention, nonjudgmentally and on purpose — is a regular part of the creativity and wellness culture at firms around the world. The practice is helping people manage stress and maximize creativity. The rise of mindfulness is unquestionably a positive development.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 12

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Fast Company – ‘100 Most Creative People in Business.’. Brown Johnson – EVP, Creative Director, Sesame Workshop. Former CEO of KKR Capstone for Asia Pacific. Advisor and Speaker at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The epitome of a "loose reins" approach, though, is French automotive parts maker FAVI, a 600-person company led by a CEO, Jean-Francois Zobrist, who describes himself as "a stupid and lazy manager" who has "no idea of what people are doing."

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Innovation Self-aware Automotive Trends 16

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Lack of resources often forces you to be creative and flexible instead of relying on brute-force analysis and planning. If they had doggedly followed this idea, things could just as easily have turned sour and today Honda would be just a footnote in automotive history. Don't over-plan when doing the unheard-of.

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Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator. Inclusive engagement is central to orchestrating co-creative engagement, involving stakeholders in the process of gaining insights and designing solutions together.

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

By sheer happenstance, I had just gotten a copy of Gemba Walks , a collection of essays by James Womack , a co-author of the automotive classic The Machine That Changed The World and a pioneering importer of Toyota-inspired lean production insights and methodologies to America. "We provide the space, equipment and expertise.

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

” An increasing number of companies — particularly in the auto industry — are heeding that call, setting aggressive, creative, and visionary goals that change their approach to business and how they relate to the wider world. Sam Walton once said, “High expectations are the key to everything.”

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Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

But paint is really not as simple as just paint; for example, coatings for automotive applications are very different from decorative finishes. Creativity Diversity Innovation' AkzoNobel is a multi-national, multi-divisional manufacturer and distributor of coatings systems, or more simply put, paint.

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Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

” Hyundai Motor announced its plans to invest widely in leading Israeli start-ups to fast-track the manufacturer’s future advanced automotive technologies developments. ” In October, Samsung Electronics unveiled Bixby 2.0,

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Press Release Automotive Innovation Technology 159

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive. That brings us to the second step: expanding the company’s peripheral vision. Sällström mapped outside industries, looking for people with pertinent skills.

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Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

We have compiled the data for the top three tiers of a particular automotive company to its third-tier and identified over 8,000 suppliers. Once we have computed initial NSI scores for all suppliers, we can use business analytics to validate the scores.

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Supply Chain Operations Automotive Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

AutoEmotive , Affectiva’s Automotive AI , and Ford are racing to get emotional car software market-ready to detect human emotions such as anger or lack of attention, and then take control over or stop the vehicle, preventing accidents or acts of road rage.

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Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Dassault Systemes is making a push to make PLM technology more co-creative. What is needed is a broad-based engagement platform that attracts car customers and their social partners and gives them tools and structure to interact effectively with car company designers, their automotive parts, and software suppliers.

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Engineering Automotive Objective Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

But our company makes software that is used across dozens of industry verticals — automotive, health care, hospitality, and the public sector — each with their own specific needs and goals. When I say diversity, I don''t just mean racial and ethnic diversity — San Jose actually has New York beat on that front.

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Diversity Software Engineering Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

ROWE (results-only work environment) has become a popular strategy too, especially in companies with predominantly younger workforces, like automotive web publisher Edmunds.com. Even at Toyota headquarters in Japan, a surprisingly flat organization given its size, a newly hired associate is often told, "Dig your own job.".

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Management Automotive Policies Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Authorship creates ownership and commitment, and ultimately leads to creative and impactful solutions.

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Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Collaborative innovation models require you to trust the creativity and intelligence of your employees, your clients and other members of your innovation network," said Sam Palmisano, IBM's CEO, in a press release. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

One pillar of Bosch Automotive Aftermarket's recent sales strategy change was to foster entrepreneurship and risk taking among Key Account Managers. By introducing this ritual we could arouse creativity and people who had always kept silent until then, when forced to speak, would often contribute the best ideas.".

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Sports Bond Automotive Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

For instance, at one automotive company, the CMO and CFO worked together with their teams to draw up a global set of financial and non-financial metrics for the short and long term. CFOs don’t look just at the ROI of the creative process; they want to know the money is being spent wisely. Get more for the money.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Bankruptcy was a mechanism for cleansing the economy and providing for creative renewal. Enormous energy is spent in the White House — it was done with respect to the automotive bailout, but with respect to many other things as well — when the president is going to announce a decision.

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Process Uncertainty Analysis Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

However, they often don’t look carefully or creatively at the business models this might inspire. Clearly, the makers of physical products (like cars or home appliances) understand that digital convergence is the next frontier. The physical asset itself is just the beginning.

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Business Model Engineering Download Power 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

But the better and more challenging question is, how would the automotive industry’s incumbents respond to genuinely disruptive competition? The money, frankly, is secondary; the real issue is creativity and capability. Innovation Design Automotive' Consider what happened with the iPhone. Or will they take the wheel?

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Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

You can immobilize people with too much stress: You stifle the creativity required to come up with new ideas, trigger fear of taking a wrong step in a high-stakes situation, or unleash frenetic but ineffective activity. “This week, we’re going to focus on the automotive sector. ” Add structure to the problem.

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Team Stress How To Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

GM lost the ability to demonstrate leadership in a time where the advertising and automotive industries are flailing. The company claims that the combination of advertising and creative storytelling helped it outperform a traditional Super Bowl advertisement for a fraction of the cost.

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Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

GM lost the ability to demonstrate leadership in a time where the advertising and automotive industries are flailing. The company claims that the combination of advertising and creative storytelling helped it outperform a traditional Super Bowl advertisement for a fraction of the cost.

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Advertising Storytelling IPO Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

Premium brand advertisers such as Samsung, Nordstrom, Coca-Cola, MasterCard, Kia and Home Depot have all had great success with highly creative and interactive mobile campaigns. Automotive (car quotes, loans). Campaigns such as Samsung''s use click-through rate and engagement with an ad as their primary metrics. credit cards).

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Advertising Call Center Brand Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These data sources spanned numerous systems—like the membership program, ticketing system, online store, and mobile apps that enable fans to gain loyalty points—and wrangling the data into one platform was a key creative and technical challenge. Ignite your fan engagement and apply those learnings across your business.

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Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

I''ve written before about the science that helps explain why and how constraints and limits, often in the form of intelligent, well-set stretch goals, result in more creative solutions. The project demanded rethinking the entire concept of what automotive luxury performance meant. Creativity Innovation Managing people'

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Supply Chain Productivity Products Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

There''s an incipient venture-capital and startup scene , and lots of small creative businesses. A small group of affluent, well-educated Creative Classers (and a larger number of occasional suburban visitors) has occupied an island in a sea of economic despair. The area''s pro sports teams are almost all back downtown.

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Gilbert Venture Capitalist Class Entrepreneur 8