Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In our world of excess everything, savvy innovators realize that less is actually best. 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."

Innovation 15

Innovation Self-aware Automotive Trends 15

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. It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? Will it work? We believe it will but if you don’t, ask me again in 13 months and 13 days.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Sometimes, the best management is little or no management at all. Look around the corporate world, and you can find great examples of organizations also taking the "shared space" approach too so people can better collaborate and innovate. Take "shared space" urban design, for example. It's about performance, not presence.

Management 8

Management Automotive Policies Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

We know intuitively that innovation goals are well served by cross-functional “SWAT” teams that are diverse in their membership. They find that higher-valued industrial innovation (by its nature also riskier) is more likely to arise when diverse teams are assembled of people with deep subject matter expertise in their areas.

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Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I also find it interesting because the common hindsight narrative about Honda's success glosses over the many bumps along the way and imparts a sense of genius foresight to Honda's managers that they themselves would have rejected. Don't over-plan when doing the unheard-of. What is striking is Honda's lack of planning ahead of time.

Strategy 14

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 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. for Spain's financial sector.

CEO 10

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

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.”

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Operations Automotive Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Engineers are no longer design experts; they are mediators who structure and enable design interactions between imaginative customers and innovative suppliers of technologies and systems. Dassault Systemes is making a push to make PLM technology more co-creative. There are a few exceptions here and there. The race is on.

Engineering 13

Engineering Automotive Objective Technology 13

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. We have identified four principles with straightforward steps that policymakers, business leaders, and universities can take to restore innovation ecosystems.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Apple fanboys and Samsung’s “Next Big Thing”ers would hoot with derisive laughter if The Wall Street Journal or Financial Times reported that GM or Ford planned to rewrite the rules of smartphone innovation. The money, frankly, is secondary; the real issue is creativity and capability. They should.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. This has enabled us to grow our number of fan profiles by about 400 percent in the past two years—it’s now in the millions,” says Begoña Sanz, Commercial General Manager, Real Madrid C.F.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management. Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. Trucks clocked a cumulative 5.2

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

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. Too often, though, managers set what appears to be a good stretch goal, only to discover that it did not produce the hoped-for innovative thinking.

Supply Chain 8

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. Policy innovation. It has also been uniquely dysfunctional.

Gilbert 8

Gilbert Venture Capitalist Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8