Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Any promising new initiative — a stand-alone business venture or an innovation in an established organization — hits roadblocks and unexpected obstacles. Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Late in June, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed technology and innovation platform. ” Clinton’s tech and innovation plan is more measured, if noncommittal, about whether she sees the sharing economy as a direct attack on unions and labor regulators.

Planning 8

Planning Innovation Review Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. So let’s set a goal of getting to the 90th percentile in 90 days. For a nurse or an x-ray tech with 10 or 20 years of experience, delivering health care is a routine. Let me be the patient.”

Innovation 8

Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

A focus on solutions might mean they figure out how to help you reach your goal weight. Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard.

Project 8

Project Productivity Products Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Edison’s insight provides a useful frame for viewing Tesla’s splashy launch of Tesla Energy and its battery systems — Powerwall for residential use and Powerpack for commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Tesla’s flashy electric cars are positioned as but one component in the energy system of the future.

Strategy 8

Strategy Levitt Energy System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. But nowhere is the potential of this new era of opportunity more apparent and exciting than it is in health care. They can pinpoint treatments that sustain health in a more precise way than ever before. But not for long.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Nine years ago, when I launched The Energy Project during an economic boom, it was nearly impossible to find senior leaders open to the idea that demand was exceeding people's capacity, and that it was critical to the bottom line to teach employees new ways to manage their energy more skillfully. The way we're working isn't working.

Meyer 14

Meyer Goleman Emotional Intelligence Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, which has already had a major impact on industries such as transportation, retail, energy, and banking, is only just beginning to be applied in medicine. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. clem onojeghuo/unsplash. Insight Center.

Mayo 9

Mayo Health Care Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. Germany, and Walmart — add lots more renewable energy. In October, 99% of the new energy added to the grid in the U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Imagine if only a fraction of it had been focused on improving our education, health care, energy, and economic systems. McGonigal suggests that the four defining traits of any game — a goal, clear rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation — can be applied to any challenge.

Kaplan 14

Kaplan Health Care Incentives Sports 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

Middle Management 9

Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

In a glittering ceremony in Skhirat, Morocco, three African innovators emerged as winners in the annual Innovation Prize for Africa competition. The African Innovation Foundation , which organizes the event, focuses on identifying homegrown and scalable innovations that address local problems in Africa.

Innovation 8

Innovation Health Care Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. But they recognize that they — and the organization — need a process to help them reach their goals.

Middle Management 13

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

That’s something any forward-thinking provider must aim for in today’s data-driven health care environment. I have a Withings BP cuff linked to my iPhone 6 via Bluetooth Low Energy. My iPhone is connected to my clinician’s electronic health record via a new app called BIDMC@Home. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Climate change, building a clean economy, reducing inequality and raising wages, providing health care to support general wellbeing — all are big unknowns now. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. Our goal is to increase demand for local trades, not drive them away. How do you get corporations to invest in a significant way?

Suri 13

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM Watson’s progress in the health care market is a significant example and driver of the transformation, providing big lessons to IBM and to every large company that must disrupt its own business — or watch competitors do it first. Acquire ideas, not just revenue. The strategic rationale for specific acquisitions varies.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. Customers and suppliers: The ultimate goal of our business is not to sell products but to serve customers.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

By loving TEDx, a volunteer army of people are saying they believe that smart ideas that get people to think more about their world is a cause worth putting energy into. Collaborating with people through shared purpose creates advantage because it allows everyone to work towards a shared goal.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. In modern times, alternative health care concepts and practitioners have been embraced by all sectors of society. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Goal Inspiring.

Planning 60

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

If you’re managing two teams that must collaborate to achieve larger goals, you’ll have to establish a third, overarching set of rules. Ideally it lists basic rules for respect and trust; meeting discussions and decision making; dis­sent and innovation; feedback and reporting; and conflict resolution.

Team 8

Team Follow-up Consultative Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

He was the scientific expert on the team, having earned a PhD in biology and worked at a health care company in Israel before studying for his MBA. We want to establish a prize to reward innovative ideas in this particular area.”. Our goal would be to fill the treatment pipeline with fresh ideas,” Arthur said.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Planning Learning-by-Doing 8