The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. Many innovations were unplanned and unexpected.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The two individuals fund high-risk economic initiatives in exchange for participation (partnerships), often bringing experience, management expertise, and contact information. Instead of signing a lease in an upscale neighbourhood, prefer renting in a cheaper area or use a business incubator. Develop Excellent Customer Service Skills.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One company that has managed to thrive off of the beaten track is UK Internet company Zen Internet, who were created in the Lancashire town of Rochdale in 1995 by Richard Tang with a desire not only to provide high speed Internet to the nation, but to do business in the right way. .” Rural innovation. An entrepreneurial beacon.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

” I am blessed to have had bosses who saw soul sparks in me and gave me opportunities to develop and spread them. Because that was how I was managed and led from the start of my career, because that was really all I personally and gratefully knew, that was how I managed and led others; how could I know otherwise?

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

” I am blessed to have had bosses who saw soul sparks in me and gave me opportunities to develop and spread them. Because that was how I was managed and led from the start of my career, because that was really all I personally and gratefully knew, that was how I managed and led others; how could I know otherwise?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

The reason these name-brand companies are migrating to blockchain is because they recognize it offers a more efficient way to manage projects and tasks. Brad Robertson is the founder and CEO of Polyient Labs , a Phoenix-based blockchain incubator with offices in Denver and San Diego. It levels the playing field. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. The asymmetrical aspects of America’s security, as well as the growing threat of flashpoints with China and Russia , require constant innovation at a quick pace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta , Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit. While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. We would examine my stalled plans in order to better understand how people make progress, and more specifically, what leads us to innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation. Second, demystify the process.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Innovation, in word and deed, has been a golden calf of the business world for decades. Now the concept has taken on a second life in the social sector, where a tougher than tough economy has made "innovation" the theoretical one-size fits all answer for every challenge, with little discussion about the associated costs and challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

These three aspects of emerging markets require innovations that can subsequently be taken global — a phenomenon known as " reverse innovation." However, a fourth and powerful driver of reverse innovation is the comparative absence of intermediaries: an institutional gap. Reverse innovation can be sourced in many ways.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Provide “Worthless” Rewards.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. Everyone else, whether in the C-suite or in the senior management ranks, runs a piece of a business or a support function. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Its members had a carefully constructed PowerPoint document, replete with facts and figures that showed the attractiveness of what we''ll call the booming management-training market in China (details have been disguised to protect the client''s confidentiality). Certainly, the end goal of many innovations is to generate financial returns.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

The early stages present numerous opportunities for disagreement, whether it’s around funding or product development, and when stress and tiredness are added to the mix, it can be incredibly combustible. There’s no manager to select team members, much less to assign them the roles they’ll undertake.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I call this the Six+Six Model for entrepreneurship ecosystem development. In fact, in developing countries no tech and low tech startups actually usually create more jobs than high tech startups (think Starbucks or IKEA vs Google or Apple). the total spending on entrepreneurship promotion in developing countries is still miniscule.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Through our research at DXC Technology’s Leading Edge Forum (LEF), we have identified eight breakthrough talent management stratagems that most organizations aren’t doing — so almost none have mastered — but that hold significant promise. Managers lose the automatic right to “own” staff.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Cancel further funding for the project in favor of developing an updated version of an existing company product? Similar fates often befall innovations within large companies. Gaining support for an idea for which people have no point of reference is a huge challenge for innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. By contrast, the emergence of new cloud-enabled, incubator-supported manufacturing startups could widen the aperture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Now, well over a decade later, as developing-economy competitors take the lead, U.S. will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy. Ultimately, these innovations can trickle up to the top of the pyramid, presenting enormous profit opportunities through reverse innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

That's one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. Managers working on ideas discover that detailed PowerPoint documents are their biggest enemy, because the details act as bait for nit-picking devil's advocates. "Make sure you ask the right questions at the right time." Then, the bar goes up.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

To help address it, ADO has, with the help of some innovative business firms, leapt to the forefront with a new approach to sourcing cybersecurity talent: “Dandelion programs.” DXC developed the Dandelion Program based on this metaphor, in collaboration with a number leading universities and independent advisors.

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