CEO Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Still reporting from #WBF11. I had lunch with the people putting on C2-MTL , a creativity conference being held in Montreal in May of next year. The sessions are awesome and inspirational. Their program looks great. Cohosted with Circ du soleil so should be inspirational.

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Hamel Management Bureaucracy Benchmarking 133

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. She is a seasoned business professional and author, who brings a wealth of real-world experience and an innovative style to her position at Hammer and Company.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. Among women who have achieved success in STEM, 39% report such confidence. Claim credit for your ideas.

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Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

They are professional Predict, Plan & Execute (“PP&E”) machines, and as they have evolved over time, are carefully engineered to stamp out anything that induces uncertainty. Innovation is the number one topic on CEOs’ minds in various surveys. Many companies are creating chief innovation officers.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

This should be obvious to all of us; after all, decisions don’t just materialize from the ether, ready to be executed on by managers sitting in a conference room primed to act. He didn’t have one, so why did our engineers need to? People make decisions. It’s probably not surprising that we forget this.

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Content Engineering Education Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” This was innovation all right – an innovation-induced wasteland. The picture surprised me. The thought gives me chills.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Discover the reporters in your area and profession. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Tom Peters reports that packaging on a store shelf is judged in.06 5% response is success!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. Roughly half of the world’s hundred largest economic engines are corporations, not governments.

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PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. What if a new buyer happens upon them, or, God forbid, a reporter? And everywhere you go in this gathering of the smartest people in the most exciting business category on the planet, there are marketing mistakes being made.

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Marketing Press Release Wireless Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse. And that was just from one company's private R&D engine, Xerox's PARC. But each of us as individuals can also work to optimize our innovative capacities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. At the Center for Talent Innovation , we have constructed a unique, robust framework for measuring the things that matter.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. Read widely and systematically scan sources, from new consulting reports to business headlines, to discern the zeitgeist. It can even be quantified. As the U.S.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. For more information, see the conference homepage. STEM-driven.

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Research has also found that workplace discrimination against women physicians is common, as women have reported not only receiving lower pay, but being disrespected by colleagues , being held to a higher standards than male peers, being treated less formally than men (e.g. Better reporting systems for harassment.

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Policies Leadership Mentor Career 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the way we naturally gesture as we casually chat with colleagues, deliver presentations, or brainstorm with engineers. In what situations (one-on-ones, conferences, or team meetings) am I learning new and challenging things, according to the data? Apple Innovation Technology' Gesture-based productivity apps.

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Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. In 2016, DJI had 1,500 people in R&D , or 40% of a workforce of 4,000 – a luxury only available to a company that can tap into low-cost engineering talent. Having a manufacturing ecosystem confers several benefits.

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Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

He did not train as an engineer. When we think of innovation, we tend to think of smart, technically trained people sitting in a room coming up with game-changing ideas. When a country has strong English abilities, its innovation sector can better pull from the global pool of talent and ideas. That doesn’t surprise me.

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Innovation Metrics Globalization Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s the project for a major client, the opportunity to build out a new team, or the chance to represent the company at an industry conference. Procuring the conference room. Getting everyone on the conference line. Our own research focused on engineering and law. Office housework happens outside of the spotlight.

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Management Committee Diversity Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On Tuesday, Amazon.com reported third-quarter earnings that fell far short of Wall Street's expectations. Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 per share by nearly a dime.

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Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

I hear it time and again — How can we compete with Facebook or Google for young engineers? Unfortunately, young people “just don’t want to work for insurance companies,” the Journal reports, which has led some companies to develop brash recruiting campaigns. Substance matters more than style.

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Insurance Company Article Wilde 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning models used in a popular search engine struggle to differentiate human images from those of gorillas , and show female searchers ads for lower paying jobs relative to male users. However, in the Stroke Belt project, we circumvented annotation entirely, instead relying on self-reported data.

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Sample Project Self-aware Training 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

True, Zappos’s recent experience with holacracy, as widely reported in the media, demonstrates that the transformation to distributed management is not easy. Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation.

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Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

In 2014, women constituted only 14% of GoDaddy’s engineering interns and new graduate hires. In fact, it was just the opposite — the company reports that because of its efforts, it’s attracting candidates of a higher caliber. Within six months InMobi saw applications increase fivefold.

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