Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

As the editor of the journal Innovations , I'm asked with some regularity, "So, what is innovation anyhow? But one thing is for sure: If you're not pissing someone off, it's probably not innovation.". But one thing is for sure: If you're not pissing someone off, it's probably not innovation.". How would you."?

Innovation 15

Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. However, these prescriptions for innovation at Roivant have also led to some unexpected challenges.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Too much structure will stifle creativity and innovation. In these organizations, the sustainability managers have to justify their activities to their peers in other functional areas (who resist the sustainability programs as another corporate imposition). finance, mineral processing, geology).

Positioning 9

Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues' The first report of the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Innovating for Value in Health Care. They’ve lived through tumultuous times before and the status quo has always returned.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Here’s the bottom line: How can you possibly justify not communicating with your key constituents, stakeholders, and influencers in an environment of their choosing, where they are actively having conversations in real time? I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving.

Media 407

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

Franchising 12

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Determined to get closer to their customers and become more agile and innovative, global organizations like IBM and GE are embracing the matrix organizational model. Give mid-level leaders a chance to take on advisory roles outside of line management in functions such as strategy, HR or finance.

Management 14

Management Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Influence 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. Yet research suggests that workplaces where creativity and innovation are at a premium nurture and encourage people’s authentic differences. They also represent varying degrees of fabulousness, from subtle to full-on. ” Olu.

Fashion 9

Fashion Participative Class Creativity 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role.

Banking 12

Banking Long-term Short-term System 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. They were arguing, first, it’s a highly dynamic environment.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Every vibrant, healthy, inspiring, innovative, and positive corporate culture I’ve witnessed has occurred not because culture has been placed ahead of strategy, but because it has been a key driver of the corporate strategy. I believe that culture is an output of strategy.

Blog 366

Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8