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Leading a Culture of Innovation

LDRLB

All companies, whether they are successful with innovation or not, have one thing in common: they have their own “personalities.” This last week at the Front End of Innovation conference in Boston, I shared a presentation on the Strategies and Tools for Creating a Culture of Innovation. LEAPS Innovation Leadership Competencies.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market. The other domain is leadership.

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts.

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Creating A Purpose-Driven Corporation

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, while the creation of common standards and metrics for governance are wholly sensible, the notion that companies must be legally bound to have a societal purpose seems excessively heavy handed and liable to receive considerable backlash from the corporate world. Some of these have considerably more merit than others.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. This is what we call a business’s health , and related metrics explain how financial results were achieved and provide causal insights into future performance potential.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?