Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In his new book, Retromania , English music critic Simon Reynolds claims that innovation in popular music is in decline. If this is true, a big cultural change is upon us — the end of popular music as the great lab bench for our culture, as the defining innovator of our time. The innovation was now spreading.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

AI technologies like neural-based machine learning and natural language processing are beginning to mature and prove their value, quickly becoming centerpieces of AI technology suites among adopters. The biggest challenges are people and processes. However, we are likely at a key inflection point of AI adoption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Today, IoT product designs generally emphasize process automation and ability to access a device from anywhere in the world. As cognitive scientists put it things like hammers became a part of the body’s “extended periphery” and are “functionally a component of the [subjects’] smoothly coping IDS.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge. Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

Almost every process improvement initiative I've researched over the last three years in more than 50 organizations has been pushed from the top. These mandated-from-above programs include Lean Six Sigma initiatives with experts (" Belts ") in command, big IT implementations, and reengineering of major end-to-end processes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. Building bridges between generations is most effective when it’s baked into the company’s values, culture, and processes. rawpixel/unsplash.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It’s noticeable that the rapid adoption of health technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic has largely seen (relatively) new technologies bolted onto existing processes. From here, you can begin to explore the way technology can help improve processes, either fully automating them or augmenting the human being.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

They hope AI can improve productivity, automate existing process, provide predictive analysis, and extract meaning from massive data sets. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around. For them, AI is a competitive advantage, but not part of their core product.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The two methodologies may appear to share much in common on the surface, but if you dig deeper, there are fundamental differences in process that lead to very different outcomes. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. She told me repeatedly: you need to better articulate the business plan, especially the decision-making process.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

These are the kinds of innovations being implemented in the Netherlands, which has moved beyond a dams-and-dikes mentality to embrace the country''s relationship with water, because in Holland, water is everywhere and rising all the time. The company hopes that these employees will then be able to make automated processes more productive. "We

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. When we asked them about why they care about sustainability, they did mention the business case we’ve all been hammering home for years — and they do believe it.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? And you can control it through continuous and open communication with every member of your team (some who will spot the problem before you do) and, where necessary, redundant processes and systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). You instill process improvement into the corporate DNA.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. “I tailored it to the company based on where I was in the process, what I knew about the people there, and the company culture,” he says. He also developed a longer, more traditional resume to use when he formally applied for a position.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. You will garner more support and empower employees to hold one another accountable for civil behavior by involving them in the process. The other half received insulting messages about their performance and the “poor quality” of Israeli medical care. Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

They don't necessarily improve processes that cross functions — and processes must often be redesigned this way to improve the customer experience. Yet I see few organizations that have process owners. The process owners are supposed to be highly placed, respected, and connected to make things happen.

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