Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Organizations are being pummeled by rapid change, unconventional rivals from around the globe, and demands to become more innovative, more agile, and more responsive to both customers and employees. According to Gary Hamel, it's your management model. Hamel said those companies that want to take on the " Management 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR''s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We''ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR’s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We’ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy shows the power of paradox as part of organization culture. Welcome to the June 2021 Leadership Development Carnival!

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

That’s one thing I’ve really, really enjoyed in some of your past work, even before the book in working with Gary Hamel and setting up the Management Innovation Lab, which was the precursor to the Management Innovation eXchange, the MIX, which a lot of people might be familiar with. So that was premise number one.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The first phase of the competition, the Management 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Bureaucracy is destroying value in innumerable ways, including slowing problem solving, discouraging innovation, and diverting huge amounts of time into politicking and “working the system.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S. Pick an Apt Objective. Link the New to the Old.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. Why does a statement like this produce breakthrough innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

It was an enlightening conversation with business strategy guru Gary Hamel , Newport News Shipbuilding''s CIO Leni Kaufman , and Walgreens'' CIO Tim Theriault, with HBR editor Angelia Herrin moderating. I want to spend more of my time on continuous improvement and innovation. asked Gary Hamel. Be a compassionate contrarian.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Do you know why you make the products or offer the services you do? This is especially problematic when companies decide to innovate. If you don't have a clear understanding of why you are pursuing an innovation, you risk being wasteful and ineffective, and could lack strong differentiators from incumbents.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. The Eastman Kodak Company was an iconic industry leader. But it arrived late.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". This term comes from The World Database of Innovation, a collaboration between my company, Innovators International, and the CTOs of our member companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

In short, the art and practice of capitalism itself might need deep-rooted innovation. And while I'm delighted that giants (many of my intellectual heroes, truth be told) like Porter, Peter Senge, Gary Hamel, Martin Wolf, and others agree, it's another matter to get to the other side. There probably aren't any, and that's the point.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms. How do you get your best or most typical customers to willingly, cheerfully and innovatively re-engineer themselves around your core competencies in ways that enhance both? Customers Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage? The Rise of the CIO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

In spite of a forest's worth of academic papers and rafts of best practices published by the likes of HBR on the importance of the "soft" stuff, most companies continue to treat people as inputs in a production line. Profitability up 16%, Productivity up 18%, customer loyalty up 12% and quality up an incredible 60%.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. The multitude of projects drove the company in numerous directions at the same time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

This medium has been my preferred reading choice for a number of years now because it is extremely productive and time effective. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. If you are not a heavy consumer of online information you are truly missing the boat.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. The boundaries are often blurry and people work on multiple teams at the same time, making it hard for the manager."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". But in thinking it through, I did eventually end up with a highly personal list I call " The Masters of Innovation " (which appears in my latest book ). To see my selections, click here. So what makes a Master?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

So when we were first contacted about a possible collaboration by the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), which sees its role as "creating organizations that are fundamentally fit for the future — and genuinely fit for human beings," we were immediately excited by the possibilities. With the Management 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Andrea Ovans Beware the Tentacles This Is How Bureaucracy Dies Fortune Gary Hamel says it''s disheartening to go inside "one of America''s youngest and fastest growing IT companies" and find that it already has 600 vice presidents, a pretty strong indicator that the "tentacles of bureaucracy" are rapidly encircling it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

And so, he famously argued, in addition to the fierceness of price competition among industry rivals, the degree of competitiveness in an industry (that is, the degree to which players are free to set their own prices) depends on the bargaining power of buyers and of suppliers, as well as how threatening substitute products and new entrants are.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

You need the right mix of cohesion and diversity in order to achieve both innovation and operational efficiency. Gary Hamel and C.K. Apple creates products that are “insanely great.” If no one in the cast and crew had worked together before, then results were poor. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

You need the right mix of cohesion and diversity in order to achieve both innovation and operational efficiency. Gary Hamel and C.K. Apple creates products that are “insanely great.” If no one in the cast and crew had worked together before, then results were poor. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent.

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