Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. A compelling case for innovation. Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. 37 103,000 2,813 132,141 Guy Kawasaki Innovation, Leadership Mantra: I empower people.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Consultative 100

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. People weren’t working together toward personal and organizational goals… and that environment was, I’d say, management’s fault. Guest post by Mark Graban. What a progressive view that was back in the 80s.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. Projects that would have taken months of calls are finished in weeks, demonstrating the importance of co-location in innovation. Who uses them?

Company 8

Company ROI Metrics Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

This is the safe route: stick with what you know but tell the public you are innovating, hoping they won’t notice you’re doing nothing of the sort. For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Metrics Middle Management 8

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” Many corporate visions also don’t provide a clear way to know if you’ve reached your goal because they lack tangible metrics.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.” Many corporate visions also don’t provide a clear way to know if you’ve reached your goal because they lack tangible metrics.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Metrics emphasized speed.

Organization 9

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? That could be any number of metrics — revenues, profits, total return to shareholders, or some combination — but for purposes of this discussion we’ll focus on revenues.). Growth strategy Innovation' Setting the growth target.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Your current business is the performance engine. But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Box 1 cannot execute Box 3 innovations. Excerpted from.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., It leads to a higher search engine visibility through stronger online authority (links and social shares). Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. Another piece of advice is to set measurable goals.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Data science can enable wholly new and innovative capabilities that can completely differentiate a company. But those innovative capabilities aren’t so much designed or envisioned as they are discovered and revealed through curiosity-driven tinkering by the data scientists. But they are also easily distracted, in a good way.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Innovation in Cities. Social impact bonds could be one of the most innovative and effective. The benefits are diffuse, including economic growth, city competitiveness, more jobs for more people, and more efficient use of scarce resources such as energy (which leads to less pollution). Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 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. By most of these metrics, the care compared well with others in the industry — but this wasn’t showing up in the overall satisfaction scores. A year earlier he had taken up his new post at Lakeland.

Innovation 8

Innovation CEO Benchmarking Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Top management swiftly established a new team in Guangdong, away from the Shenzhen headquarters, and tasked a small group of engineers to reimagine a different social media platform, giving them carte blanche to cannibalize the existing QQ product. Rule #4: Create a corporate goal with a percent of revenue earmarked to new products.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias. The importance of strong analytical skills will grow with the demand for human workers with a digital engineer’s skill set. Place your innovation bets. Remove the robot from the human.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies. Performing market assessments.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

The team of engineers at NASA worked in metric units (the standard they had adopted in 1990.) The engineers at Lockheed Martin who helped build the Orbiter and its navigation systems, on the other hand, worked in English units of measurement (pounds, inches, etc.). They excel when it comes to keeping things running smoothly.

Engineering 8

Engineering Metrics Goal System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Our goal is to leverage forecasting in order to make the “high-quality, high-velocity” decisions Jeff Bezos calls for in his 2017 letter to shareholders. Numerical predictions offer a range of benefits for large, innovation organizations like Twitch. The Arc of Forecasting at Twitch.

Company 8

Company Participative Training Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.

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Company Management Objective Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

Then there’s the fact that just maintaining the current offerings isn’t enough: operations is expected to constantly create new flexibility and capacity for the business to pursue its broader innovation agenda. We generally watch a bunch of metrics, like machine counts and failures, to figure out the next thing to automate.

Operations 8

Operations Engineering Software Long-term 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Reverse Engineering. The goal is giving students a vocabulary and capability for interactively understanding the links between technology design and construction.

Class 8

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? The metrics also changed. In a fragmented media and social landscape, marketers can no longer reach their goals for awareness and reputation just through paid media and PR. What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? The results? Think like a startup.

Creativity 10

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Hack by Valeria Budinich, Ashoka.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This can be used at a global, country, or city level to help see what it will take to bend the curve on diabetes and to set goals. An innovative example is Houston’s approach to engaging the faith community in health care. Community involvement in health. More than 50% of Houstonians regularly attend a house of faith.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care System Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives. Efforts to foster inclusivity also extend to arts and creativity.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Do they always succeed in these endeavors?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture.

CEO 9

CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2015

To answer this question, we at Fractl, a content marketing firm, collaborated with Moz to survey over 30 agencies specializing in content marketing about content formats and the metrics they use to track ROI. The goal: getting staff writers at a high-authority websites to produce a story about the campaign for their publishers.

Advertising 8

Advertising ROI Content Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning models used in a popular search engine struggle to differentiate human images from those of gorillas , and show female searchers ads for lower paying jobs relative to male users. In data science, greater “discriminatory potential” is a primary goal.

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Sample Project Self-aware Training 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

MAY 2, 2011

Out of curiosity, I ran it through a search engine and what did I get? the goals are aligned. The alignment of investors' interests with the executive team's goals. Companies get offers to be acquired, but at much lower valuation than the original dream goal. And that's alignment. Why is that? It's not very sexy.

Brand 14

Brand Energy Price Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

million metric tons of “carbon dioxide equivalent” gases (CO2e) globally, which is the equivalent of nearly 540,000 tons of waste sent to the landfill. From there, the commitment was elevated to one of our company’s annual strategic priorities and cascaded throughout the organization, using our goal-deployment process.

Energy 8

Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8