Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns. But some of the most interesting examples of innovation come from new additions to the BCL Top 20 list. Create a safe space for innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. When functional boundaries prevail, there is no construct for managing capabilities. It makes a company good at many things, but great at nothing.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Unlike design thinking, an iterative process for developing alternative ideas and strategies based on understanding a “user” and a specific problem, social design addresses the needs of whole communities or societies. Planning, especially facilities planning, almost inevitably stifles ongoing innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Business growth can also depend on factors such as the availability of talent or scarce raw materials that influence, say, a company’s innovation capabilities or its ability to manufacture cost-effectively. We call that process the A-B-C (which stands for Analyze-Benchmark-Calibrate) of developing a globalization strategy.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Employees must buy into the process by offering constructive input. Faster innovation. Benchmark measurements of accomplishments. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Even non-profit and public sector organizations must utilize quality approaches for staff and volunteer councils/boards. Higher sales.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Adrienne Tom ( Career Impressions ) ​ My #1 tip for being successful in a career today would be ongoing investment in professional development and skills development. Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. Confidence is the #1, must have for everyone's development plans. Self-assuredness.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This sweeping development known as “common ownership” – the same firms owning the competing firms in the same industry – is relatively new. On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Q: What are some of the institutional barriers to developing an outside-in orientation? A: Developing an outside-in orientation is difficult to achieve because it requires both insight and action. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Given the growing sensitivity to widening income inequality in many developed economies, it is no wonder that criticism of soaring executive pay has intensified. Some countries have been highly innovative in this area. Additionally, in lieu of granting shareholders additional rights to dictate executive pay (e.g.,

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 8