Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative.

LBO 8

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Companies allocate capital to the wrong investments because our traditional emphasis on ROI-based business cases undermines IT''s ability to invest in high-return-but-hard-to-measure areas like improving knowledge worker productivity. The currency of most IT project prioritization meetings is the ROI-based business case.

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. Another piece of advice is to set measurable goals. It grows sales.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In a recent Corporate Executive Board survey, sales executives' top terms for their marketing colleagues included "paper pushers," "academic," and perhaps worst of all, "irrelevant." Yet much of the sales support marketing provides falls short because it's focused on teaching customers about the supplier's business, not the customer's.

Marketing 14

Marketing ROI Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Establish some short-term goals. Once this is done, take a deep dive — establish a team or task force to determine innovative ways to control wastage. If your small-scale goal succeeds, expand by rolling it out to additional markets. Measuring is the first step: If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Retail Energy ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The UN then asked the IPCC to study what it would take to achieve that goal. The scientists put out a helpful document with FAQs , but in short, the primary takeaways are these: While the world has already warmed 1.0°C Work with suppliers on systemic reductions across the value chain and set big goals for them as well.

Efficiency 9

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. The best cost structure may vary with your firm’s goals and metrics. Choose providers that focus on bottom-level metrics like ROI and health care spend; avoid providers that focus on top-level metrics like engagement. Training programs, pilots, or short-term trials may be available.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Furthermore, the delivery of extraordinary short-term results provided credibility to the ABU, giving it legitimacy and encouraging other business lines to explore the analytics potential to deliver profits and overcome hurdles. Communicating with strategic goals in mind. Rigorous assessment of results.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Collaboration is not the only skill schools fall short on. Traditional schooling frequently fails to prepare students to think critically, innovate, and be creative. Other methods — like the Montessori approach — seem to turn out more innovators.) But schools are not factories, and students are not inputs.

Education 8

Education Incentives Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. This short paper outlines how climate is “already costing local economies billions” and describes how hundreds of billions of property are at risk.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 9