Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Collaborative innovations. Companies must become more innovative to better respond to the highly competitive, global business environment.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

To serious motorcycle racers like Andrea and Barry Coleman , flat-track racing is the most primal, authentic, and thrilling form of competition, harkening back to the origins of the sport at the turn of the twentieth century. Today, on virtually every relevant health indicator, Africa lags. It isn’t the stuff of banner headlines.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Health Care Transportation System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Ask any sports fan about their favorite team and they will usually spend half the time either cursing or extolling the manager. The plants that have adopted these monitoring and incentives-based management practices were far more productive, innovative, and profitable. Nicholas Blechman for HBR. And while this study focused on U.S.

Skills 9

Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. Almost anything can be outsourced to specialists and reconnected.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the language of social innovation, it must have a well-thought-out "theory of change" (or "logic model"). If you have an innovative job-training program, for example, it must be clear why participants stay in the program, how it helps them acquire jobs upon graduating, and what promise it holds for improving the quality of their lives.

Library 13

Library Entrepreneur Operations Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

But according to data from industries including academia, health care, technology, manufacturing, retail, sports, and business services, people are actually “unconsciously incompetent” in a typical 20% to 40% of areas critical to their performance.

Skills 8

Skills How To Learning-by-Doing Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

It grows out of insights in fields like high-performance sports science, cognitive science, and health care. We can take some guidance from the health-care field. As a result, staff researchers have a radically new source of data to inform the way the company should support and innovate knowledge-work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative Wireless Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

Process 14

Process CEO Insurance Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. “The camaraderie develops naturally.” What the Experts Say. “We make judgments [about other people] in a nanosecond.”

How To 8

How To Bond Discount Case Study 8