LDRLB

JUNE 19, 2013

Last week FastCompany published an article called 6 Ways to Create a Culture of Innovation. I believe many leaders and organizations have finally recognized that strategic innovation isn’t about creating finely tuned processes, using new fangled methodologies, or creating 2×2 matrices. Yes, I wrote it. A pleasant surprise.

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Innovation Kaplan Mission Statement Critical Success Factor 155

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

When FastCompany published 6 Ways to Create a Culture of Innovation this last Fall, within the first few days the article received over 2000 tweets from FastCo’s page alone. The reason: their company cultures stifle innovation. Create your own symbols that reinforce innovation values. Why such keen interest in this topic?

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Innovation Kaplan Mission Statement Critical Success Factor 141

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Others experience the inherent tension but let short-term goals and fire-fighting consume their lives – at the expense of preparing for and positioning themselves for the future. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation.

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Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Others experience the inherent tension but let short-term goals and fire-fighting consume their lives – at the expense of preparing for and positioning themselves for the future. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation.

Innovation 113

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

For instance, while the creation of common standards and metrics for governance are wholly sensible, the notion that companies must be legally bound to have a societal purpose seems excessively heavy handed and liable to receive considerable backlash from the corporate world. Some of these have considerably more merit than others.

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Kaplan Report Metrics Loyalty 76

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. An idea, behavior, or product is creative if it is both novel and appropriate to some goal. Notice: That second part of the creativity definition — "appropriate to some goal" — doesn't mean that the goal is necessarily ethical.

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Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8