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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

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Now, of course, increasingly technology is changing the way that information is distributed around organizations. We came up with this notion we called the Management Innovation Lab, which had two guiding premises. Why shouldn’t we be innovative in the work of management just as we do, we in are the products and technology?

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The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

Harvard Business Review

“First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. This is already happening in many industries — workers are being replaced with robots, especially for work that is more manual than mental, more repetitive than creative. pchyburrs/Getty Images.

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Is Your Company Fit for the Future (and for Human Beings)?

Harvard Business Review

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The first phase of the competition, the Management 2.0

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You Innovate with Your Heart, Not Your Head

Harvard Business Review

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. To do that, he said, I want to challenge you to bring your heart to work in new and creative ways. ” By the way — that CEO was my brother, Dr. Loren Hamel. It does not have to be this way.

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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms. Disney’s core competencies of characters and creative storytelling shape virtually everything it does. Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies?

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. This means a lot of change for enterprise IT organizations.

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.