Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Most leaders are interested in growing their businesses through innovation, but it's risky business: most innovation efforts fail. After years of helping to make innovation happen as chief communications officer at Steelcase and as a consultant, I have a point of view that I'm willing to bet on. Don't lose sight of the horizon.

Innovation 15

Innovation Brand Project Storytelling 15

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As fast as we could pin an idea on the wall, some red-faced account manager in a bad suit would run away with it. But even artists have to eat, and the fuel of commerce and industry is innovation and novelty. Let’s trade. Will work for food!” as the street-beggars sign says.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

Banking 10

Banking Strategy Film Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

It's conceivable that IT's views could have saved the company, had the culture been different and had executive management been willing to listen. The company's version of the truth regarding core values was based around silver halide film and paper. Unfortunately, Kodak focused on the internal perspective.

CIO 8

CIO Outsourcing Cost Center Film 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

“One of the great things about India is its ability to over-celebrate everything from weddings to rain to the latest Rajinikanth film. His views on strategy were final. To me, the budget still appears to be an exercise in strategy based on balancing numbers. To the outsider, it’s the great Indian spectacle.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Cost Globalization Sharpe 8