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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation. I’ve never heard anyone speak so fluently on the topic of innovation. Smart leaders spend more time on creativity than productivity.&# A recognized expert on strategy and innovation he is also the author of seven books.

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MARCH 6, 2013

Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard J.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Old thinking: Take existing products created for rich customers in developed markets and scale them down for emerging markets. New thinking: First develop innovative solutions that work for customers in poorer emerging markets, and then apply those innovations globally. View webinar: A conversation with Vijay Govindarajan.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. They particularly struggle to handle industry transitions when answers come not from the Microsoft suite of products but from somewhat disorderly discovery in the marketplace. That's just what my life is like.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

We in the West tend to think of innovation as the next, new, shiny, tech, globally-accepted thing. higher-speed broadband, mobile phones, smart devices), can lead to fresh and surprising thinking about local and regional problems, and one day these over-looked corners of the globe may produce world-class innovations as a result.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Vijay Govindarajan. To get to the future, you must build it day by day. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

What we found, while collecting case studies for our book Reverse Innovation in Health Care , is that these doctors are not just medical experts; they also have other qualities that make them very effective leaders. ” In this way, compassion fuels innovation. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. We've gained a new appreciation for a whole new world of innovation for us to explore. Today, Stephanie A. The $300 House could create the same kind of virtuous cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Do you perpetuate these productivity-destroying falsehoods at your company? Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. by Vijay Govindarajan. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. How the science of attention blindness can help you improve your innovative thinking. by Tony Schwartz.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. In 2016, the U.S. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Through a process we’ve termed “reverse innovation” these practices can be brought to other countries, including the United States, where health care costs are out of control. They are 4-6 times as productive as U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. Further Reading.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

The choice of the price position affects the overall business model, the product quality, branding, and how to innovate. They focus on core products. Large manufacturers such as Honda can indeed compete against ultra-low-price suppliers in emerging markets, but not by cutting prices on their existing products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. What reverse innovation lessons might be learned by the participants in such a project? Boniface Haiti Foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Ziba''s service innovation and retail design work with Umpqua Bank , for example, continues to be relevant and productive years after it was completed, with the bank adding dozens of branches and tens of billions in holdings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. When someone in poverty buys a device that improves productivity, the device pays for itself (if it didn't, they wouldn't buy it.) The $300 House: The Challenge.

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