Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

What kind of app will make you appear — or be — more "fit" at a brainstorm, a planning session, a company offsite or a 360 degree job review? These are Jeopardy's John Henrys except that they aren't going to die or even get a headache by digitally souping up their "hammers" when they compete with a Watson.

Hammer 13

Hammer Competitive Advantage Brainstorming Participative 13

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 28, 2017

There’s the content of the meeting, the information, the debate, the hammering out of different points of view. We think it best for the leader to have an estimated time and to keep the pace brisk. Leader manages the process Every meeting has two things happening simultaneously. Secondly, there is the process of the meeting. Are we on topic?

Productivity 100

Productivity Products Chief Executive Officer Participative 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

However much brainstorming your employees do, it will come to naught if they don’t have access to the seed money they need to prototype and test their ideas. In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. So it is with innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8