The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s an argument that Haas Business School’s Henry Chesborough wholly agrees with, and outlines the case for a more open way of innovating as the solution to this productivity paradox in his latest book, Open Innovation Results. Innovation dissemination , which is the movement of these ideas and technologies into mainstream usage.

Innovation 125

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 125

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We use this simple framework to determine the success of an innovative effort. In other words, successful innovation requires motive, means, and opportunity. Innovation efforts fail anytime they fail to deliver on all three of these domains strongly enough.

Innovation 15

Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. In addition, using outside experts implicitly demonstrates management's distrust of the workforce, which is de-motivating. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15