Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

You can control each of them from your smartphone…but the Nest won’t act to adjust the climate in response to the locks being keyed open, for example, nor to lights being turned on,” according to one user. An offering from New England Biolabs offers one example. So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K. It can even be quantified. Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. For example, the AI techniques implemented to improve customer call center performance could be very different from the technology used to identify credit card payments fraud.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. For example, why not allow your wisdom workers to spend 20% of their time acting as internal coaches in the company? (As rawpixel/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

One luxury leader, LVMH, provides a great example of how to build a robust sustainability program. Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Rushing towards an “AI strategy” and hiring someone with technical skills in AI to lead the charge might seem in tune with the current trends, but it ignores the reality that innovation initiatives only succeed when there is a solid understanding of actual business problems and goals. The question comes down to data and the task.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

For example, GE runs process improvement projects with Six Sigma Master Black Belts, Black Belts, and Green Belts armed with explicit financial targets. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Chafkin relies on the nifty narrative technique of inverting eight entrepreneurship rules ("Think locally and globally – all at once," for example) to explain what went so terribly wrong. In this lengthy investigation of the company, writer Max Chafkin says founder Shai Agassi "made great Kool-Aid and then drank it all himself."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Microsoft Windows, for example, has been the dominant platform for users, developers, and hardware makers for more than 25 years. Taxis are a more mundane, and maybe surprising, example. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. Uber and the other ride-sharing companies have disrupted them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Here are two examples: Healthcare executive with over 25 years of experience leading providers of superior patient care. If you have expertise with a specific type of software, for example, include it in the experience section. Be selective.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’ ’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking. There can be no reward without risk. They’ll never risk anything again.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

For example, several companies embarked on Six Sigma programs after their CEO heard about GE's success with the approach, and many other companies have adopted Lean because of Toyota's success. Consider this example. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

And: A diverse team is essential to survival, a point underscored by the impossibility of winning in D&D unless you have a warrior to beat things up and absorb damage, a wizard to fight magical foes and occasionally drop the hammer on something big, a cleric to heal your party members, and so on. Disruptor of the Year?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

It is used in the more technical end of the financial industry, for example in derivatives valuation. Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. Instead what he says is let’s have financial innovation that is actually helpful. That’s kind of a deep insight.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Brad Power ( bradfordpower@gmail.com ) is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. And they succeeded wildly.

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