Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

Next Monday I am going to be facilitating a panel discussion in Singapore on "Asia Fuelling Global Innovation." Thanks for your participation! In an effort to increase the panel's interactivity, I wanted to offer readers a chance to ask Brown questions.

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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. Brown noted three specific challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Motivated by the amazing people we met in England, we packed our bags filled with recording equipment and continued onward to Johannesburg, South Africa, where we would participate in the 2019 all-Africa Employee Engagement Awards and Conference. . Johannesburg, South Africa. Dan and I wanted to perform one last act of servant leading.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. Also, consider adding language expertise to your existing systems, so that you can identify employees who might already have this without their managers being aware.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Charlie Hill , Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Design, told us, “To deliver fundamentally different and better user experiences, designers want to take a step back and observe users actually doing their jobs. This new approach was recently on display in Rich’s participation with the “ Pizza 4 Patriots ” program.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

I am on record of being "long" on innovation in Asia, and I continue to feel tremendous innovation energy in the region. But observations during two recent meetings made me wonder about the degree to which Asia needs a "Woodstock moment" to realize its full innovation potential. Then the top brass left.

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