Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. One company that’s making headway on that goal is CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), one of the insurance companies affiliated with the 55 million-member American Automobile Association (AAA).

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Most companies mistakenly believe that competencies are the #1 driver of performance. . Yet companies continue to invest in skills development only to be disappointed by little or no difference in performance. Decision making style. Requirements for change and variety.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. This new view and way of operating actually helps companies come closer to achieving the ideal of giving customers what they want, when, where and how they want it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Organizations fall victim to the same phenomenon in innovation. When implementing new customer offerings and experiences, an original idea is often inadvertently manipulated as it moves through development. The game here is called “silos,” and it too results in cumulative error. Business case developed?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

With control of the process, individuals are able to continue to develop and learn. A recent study of Millennials in the workplace by PwC found that the benefit they most valued from employers wasn’t more money (that was number three), but rather training and development. What came in second?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. Captive R&D Centers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Four million subscribers later, Khoja was running the largest company in Afghanistan and still marveling: " Those were our engineers." Because Roshan is in Afghanistan.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. And an ambitious 13% said that they''ll settle for nothing less than having the best customer experience across every industry — in other words, these companies want to be the next Apple, Disney, or Zappos. And 55% have dedicated innovation budgets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Four million subscribers later, Khoja was running the largest company in Afghanistan and still marveling: " Those were our engineers." Because Roshan is in Afghanistan.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. However, many companies don’t do that.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

We know that creativity and innovation fuel new products, services, even strategies. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. That’s important given that creative ideas often take time to develop and that productivity and creativity are often at odds with one another. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

However, I fear that Mexico continuing its existing trade-based economic strategy will not necessarily produce different results in the long term — as it wouldn’t for any other developing country. When the region can’t meet new demands for lower costs, foreign companies up and move, taking the jobs with them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bernstein studied assembly-line performance at a company he called “Precision.” But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. However, most companies measure only tactical performance. Building Balanced Cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Intriguingly, some start-ups are coming up with characteristically innovative ways to tackle the problem. Consider Zappos’ new “holacracy” organizational design as a novel example of how a company is trying to prevent efficiency from hampering new net growth. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In our work with leading companies around the globe, we have found that companies with strong presales capabilities consistently achieve win rates of 40–50% in new business and 80–90% in renewal business—well above average rates. Sales reps’ time on proposal development was cut in half. Submitting Bids.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. Utility companies are the traditional example. Once the lines are laid and houses are connected to the grid, it's unlikely that power companies are going to see new entrants.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

asks an executive at a large industrial products company. As a result, the company may find it hard to sustain the gains, much less drive future growth. As a result, the company may find it hard to sustain the gains, much less drive future growth. They serve and grow , by empowering, enabling, and developing others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

asks an executive at a large industrial products company. As a result, the company may find it hard to sustain the gains, much less drive future growth. As a result, the company may find it hard to sustain the gains, much less drive future growth. They serve and grow , by empowering, enabling, and developing others.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

[This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization.]. Many companies now have senior officers in charge of customer experience. Each customer designs her own experience in the unique context of each interaction she has with the company. The proverbial "touch points" are only the company's side of the interaction.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

CEO Ginni Rometty is leading the company into new areas, betting big on its Watson software and cloud computing. But these new services have yet to grow fast enough to supplant the profit declines in the company’s eroding legacy products. Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. “He was more concerned with protocol than personal development. And, when our seeking systems are activated, we feel more motivated, purposeful, and zestful. We feel more alive. Adapted from.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

For the moment, this is good news for those companies still experimenting or piloting AI (41%). Survey respondents from firms that have successfully deployed an AI technology at scale tend to rate C-suite support as being nearly twice as high as those companies that have not adopted any AI technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. If so many companies are using social media, it must be effective, right? For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. In this way, companies need to become like more like living businesses, building and sustaining symbiotic ties with their customers as if those relationships are with a concierge, butler, or friend.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

When evaluating talent for recruitment or development, you have just two key questions to answer: What should you assess? As for the how question, there has been much innovation in talent identification over the past five years, mostly as a result of the digital revolution and the ubiquity of smartphones.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”. JP Morgan Chase, although a digital innovator, has opened 600 branches since January 2010 while closing 325. In our view, no. Here’s why.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

When a new employee is hired under this typical scenario and shows up the first day, the company tells her what work needs to be done and shows her how to act. But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment. Insight Center. How to Be a Company That Employees Love.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In this next chapter, the Philippines — the world’s second-fastest growing economy — will play a crucial role in helping tech companies access the talent to scale efficiently and sustainably. A great web developer with at least five years’ experience can cost less than $25,000 a year.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That isn’t easy, but the payoff is worth it: Our most recent research shows that companies with excellent marketing capabilities outperform the market with 2-3X greater revenue growth. Yet, only 30 percent of companies believe they understand their customers’ needs well enough to identify what initiatives will drive growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

For businesses looking to keep pace with innovation and leverage AI, there are steps they can take today. Smart marketers are developing, partnering to build, or integrating AI into their tech stacks to get better at what they do. The good news is that, as an industry, we are starting to see meaningful progress on both fronts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Rather than letting the assumptions attached to their existing products limit how they explore and define customer needs, insurers can gain in-depth insight into what motivates customer decisions through a variety of sources, including social media, analytics, mobile and call center data, and feedback from digital marketing efforts.

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