Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Spurred by new payment models and new incentives, health systems are increasing their commitments to innovation in health care delivery. Unfortunately, many systems are overlooking an entire class of innovations that are modest in size, low in risk, and highly likely to deliver wins for both patients and profits.

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Health Care Team Innovation System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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Innovation Health Care Globalization Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

No surprise, then, that it poses serious challenges for the health care systems, pension schemes, and public debt management of modern societies. Innovation could come to the rescue by boosting the productivity of the remaining labor force. Innovation is the means; economic growth is the end.

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Innovation GDP Health Care Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The pace of innovation is still fast, they say, and we can still expect plenty of technological breakthroughs capable of producing extremely high returns. It’s a lively debate, but here’s the perspective that isn’t being voiced: There’s more to progress than technological innovation. We can make new tools, and we can make new rules.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Wack perceived the world differently than his colleagues in the energy business. The practice is helping people manage stress and maximize creativity. Gurdjieff in Paris.

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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. Lakeland tracked the things that drove patient satisfaction — response times to call lights, pain management, the quality of the food, the effectiveness of patient communication, and so on. How could this be?

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Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Nearly 68% of these large-scale change and innovative efforts failed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

As more sectors embrace a digital strategy — transportation, aviation, health care, energy, and so on — managers will find that a deep understanding of their market is still the most potent defense against competition. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation. “‘Why us?’

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Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

In time, the unique public-private sector initiative will hopefully yield new ways to manage Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other related conditions. The health care system has had little to offer the 5.2 Physicians and nurse practitioners often focus their energies on the patients in front of them.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

While the world is seeking renewable energy alternatives to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, the world is still heavily reliant on oil, natural gas, and electricity generated using these fuels. Health care sector. This money will need managing and the financial services sector will be there to facilitate this.

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Health Care Biotechnology Energy Insurance 67

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

It was a week before a big innovation conference in Australia in which I was set to debate the negative side of the question: “Would innovation make the world a better or worse place in 2050?” My 2-year-old son, Harry, valiantly contributed a range of squiggles, which I suppose represented waves of karmic energy.

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Advertising Innovation Christensen Long-term 9

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

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Acquisitions always get a lot of senior management attention and, for those who want it, there is no shortage of outside advice, including a lot in the management literature. Pfizer divested its consumer health care business in 2006, selling it to J&J for more than 20x EBITDA. And it's a shame. GE-NBC/Universal.

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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.

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Meyer Goleman Emotional Intelligence Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

If you care about energy efficiency, the welfare of our senior citizens, equitable transportation services, jobs, or combating climate change, cities are the answer. Consider senior care. Over the past thirty years we have built thousands of senior housing and continuing care facilities in this country.

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Transportation Energy Efficiency Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. The result is akin to turning on a light bulb—it releases the energy needed to truly transform the quality and cost of care. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management.

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Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

By the time online games exploded onto the scene, I was so immersed in reality that I managed to ignore them. Imagine if only a fraction of it had been focused on improving our education, health care, energy, and economic systems. Saul Kaplan is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF).

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Kaplan Health Care Incentives Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? So who is to blame for the lack of big, transformational ideas?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

At present, the startup ecosystem's inability to differentiate mom and pop tech entrepreneurs from high growth entrepreneurs ready to build the next billion-dollar company wastes a lot of people's time and energy. Have all the innovative ideas already been done? So who is to blame for the lack of big, transformational ideas?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The public and private sectors need to work together to protect critical assets with confidence and trust — helping manage the risks we know, and getting ahead of those we don''t. Critical industry sectors from energy and banking to transportation and health care answer to different government agencies or regulators.

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Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Such ecosystems even the playing field for individuals and small firms to participate in technological progress, catalyzing both employment and innovation. We produce in order to consume.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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. It has started growing Watson Health through acquisitions and a new partner ecosystem.

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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. We pride ourselves on finding ways (through R&D) to use less energy and water in the production process.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

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. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same. How do you get corporations to invest in a significant way?

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom. Because that's the point.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

The energy and effort Marshall put into his work led Senator Henry Stimson to say, “I have never seen a task of such magnitude performed by a man.” George Marshall once said, “The less you agree with the policies of your superiors, the more energy you must direct to their accomplishment.” why is everyone smiling?

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Ryan Learning-by-Doing Career Magazine 220

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

By inviting collaboration in the change process from people across the organization, micro-moves tap collective energy and build enthusiasm that is essential for driving change. The insights gained led to the development of an innovative care model that has received widespread attention for its positive outcomes.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Innovation Consultative 8

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. by Hank Moore.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 62

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.

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