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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. One was that we thought companies should start to think, shall we say, as creatively about the ways they worked as they sometimes do about their products or services. DAVID: Yeah, I totally agree.

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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.

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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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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

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? Incidentally, this holds true even for a quasi-Web 2.0 company like Apple.

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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. CIOs must be an integral and vocal part of conversations on new ventures and resource allocation.

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

Similarly ingenious and purely homegrown rituals like the party seem to tumble forth from Lavoie and Marion, who are relentlessly creative, playful, often goofy, and utterly committed to inviting and supporting engaged contribution. Webinar Note: Join Gary Hamel for a free webinar focused on the best new ideas from the Management 2.0

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You Innovate with Your Heart, Not Your Head

Harvard Business Review

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. In one of his last presentations as Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs said his company lived at the intersection of “technology” and “liberal arts.”