Coaching Ourselves

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

CoachingOurselves, the world leader in peer coaching is reinforcing our commitment to CSR with the publishing of our new sustainability module “ One Planet Business ” by authors Jean-Paul and Sally Jeanrenaud. After all, what major social change ever began without a groundswell of concerned human energy?”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Innovation success stories are all strikingly similar: a bright idea, supported by a zealot-innovator who sees it through. This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them.

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Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Business leaders have significant concerns about energy. Yet most companies reported that they still manage energy on a short-term, reactive basis. Only a third of the executives surveyed said their organization have an energy management strategy or have the ability to generate power onsite.

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Energy Cost Content Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

It turns out that the word “innovation” is not a Harry Potter-esque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative, and entrepreneurial. It can be emblazoned on the door to a new innovation center in Silicon Valley. Yes, even Toys R Us had a head of innovation.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The true solution, we think, lies in understanding the changed nature of modern supply chains and identifying new business models better suited for managing them. We think the answer to that problem lies in the novel business model pioneered by companies like Li & Fung Ltd., Firms like Li and Fung ltd.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

A few weeks back, we saw firsthand a hotbed of innovation in a place that many observers had long ago given up on. Its resurrection convinces us that other organizations can do the same by creating a culture of consideration, coordination, and communication, and marrying that culture to a responsive business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Wack perceived the world differently than his colleagues in the energy business. The practice is helping people manage stress and maximize creativity.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. And digital innovations will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Our overarching conclusion is that, while many companies undertake digital initiatives, most do not manage to bring about transformative change. The second is too often forgotten.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The inability of established firms to come up with breakthrough innovations is a truism today. Joseph Schumpeter, the 20 th century economist known for heralding the role of innovation in the evolution of society, argued that established firms were best positioned to innovate because of the resources available to them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Established industries aren’t ripped apart overnight.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Business models are being transformed, lives are being upended, vast new horizons of possibility opened up. These are all pretty common assertions in modern business/tech journalism and management literature. But he's not alone in the judgment that we're not actually living in an era of great innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Type 1 diabetes renders the pancreas incapable of producing the insulin necessary to shift glucose out of the bloodstream and into cells where it can be converted into energy. When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. Consider alternative business models.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

"Asia Fueling Global Innovation." That was the theme of the 2-hour panel discussion I moderated as part of a full-day ceremony celebrating the groundbreaking of Procter & Gamble's SGD 250m Innovation Centre in Singapore. Historically, 80 percent of its growth comes from innovation. Simplifying technology and new business models."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Unfortunately, when companies launch innovation initiatives, they tend to devote most of their time, energy and attention to that initial 1% – the thrilling hunt for the breakthrough idea. The real innovation challenge , however, lies beyond the idea, in a long, hard journey from idea to impact. Think Different. Opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

“Death by a Thousand Cuts” Based on a comprehensive five-year study, my new research paper, published in the Academy of Management Discoveries this year, systematically identifies the reasons behind the failures of major Western digital firms in China. poor management of relations with Chinese regulators and the government.

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Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. number of copies each month).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

As part of the fast-growing "managed print services" sector, the company shows organizations how to reduce the number of printers they use. The shift helps customers reduce their environmental impacts and costs by cutting back on paper, energy, and waste. Consider the printing business again. But the present status quo.is

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Positioning Christensen Business Model Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

And what can Grab teach us about the future of platform businesses? To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Transportation, aviation, health care, and energy all require physical delivery, whereas media, music, and advertisement do not.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

based solar energy companies produce systems that compete on price, opening up huge new mass markets for renewable energy? will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy. infrastructure and business models — and so policy inertia and entrenched incumbents can stifle them.

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Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. In 2015, it had been one of Wall Street’s most favored alternative energy companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Edison’s insight provides a useful frame for viewing Tesla’s splashy launch of Tesla Energy and its battery systems — Powerwall for residential use and Powerpack for commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Tesla’s flashy electric cars are positioned as but one component in the energy system of the future.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox , Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. what is driving the transformation of Xerox to a services-led business.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Pioneers of new business models, such as Alibaba and Amazon, are launching innovations in rapid succession, such as voice ordering and real-time pricing, while simultaneously building scale and driving down costs. Danita Delimont/Getty Images. Few industries are being disrupted as drastically as the retail industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. In Colorado, the state renewable energy mandate was bumped up from 20% to 30% in 2010.

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