Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing?

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Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. At the nearby emergency room, where he went next, another physician, unable to obtain the original films, reordered the CT scan.

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Health Care Film Incentives Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

I would venture to suggest that this extra factor is the fact that managers in incumbent firms do not focus on their product’s “job-to-be-done.” The manager’s point of departure is classic market segmentation. ” The concept of a product’s job-to-be-done is not new. Will the tool give me status?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The project has provided a laboratory for testing practical policies and initiatives that can promote inclusive prosperity. There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Proponents say they also improve collaboration and innovation, and opponents report that they cause higher stress and lower concentration, motivation, and cognitive functioning.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Energy Policies Planning 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. Earlier this month, Damian Hind and Jonathan Dupont at Policy Exchange cribbed that the budget seemed “like a vestigial relic of a different time Treasury.”

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Budgeting Cost Globalization Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Our 2015 trends offer great opportunity – along with some unusual new challenges – for managers in all industries.

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Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

When one person with a wireless connection can be an agency, a media company, or even a manufacturer, traditional advertising organizations have to change their culture, processes, structure, talent policies, resources, and even their business and revenue models in order to embrace the power of open systems being fueled by digital connectivity.

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Advertising Brand Innovation Creativity 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

It''s only through history and books or films that my generation has a grasp of what life must have been like. Just recently, I had the chance to watch the German film, The Lives of Others , which won the 2007 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The execution of these systems is, as you''d expect, very different.

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