Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the early 20th century, Frederick Taylor promoted the profitable benefits of business efficiency, productivity, and increasing worker output. As businesses effectively automate their business processes, their greater efficiency and productivity results in increased profitability. As companies profit, they can offer more products.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Would you look to your information technology organization for ways to improve customer service? Would you ask IT to come up with ideas for new financial products and services, or new ways to deliver them? If this is you, you're likely missing out on the product and process ingenuity of your IT people. Probably not.

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Process Innovation Agility Insurance 13

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Michael Tardif has over twenty years of experience applying information technologies to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings. Michael Tardif.

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Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. In today’s world, analytics is a product/service that must be sold.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. And digital innovations will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. What does this entail?

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Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Supposedly set to launch this July — and then September — New York City announced that its innovative bike sharing program would be delayed until at least next spring. But the importance and pace of innovation rollouts demand a different design sensibility. Until it works, we're not going to put it in. Jaws dropped.

Leadership 12

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

In other words, opportunistically managing collective intelligence is not enough; smart leaderships need to rethink how to collectively manage collective intelligence. How might Kickstarter-like innovation initiatives facilitate new conversations and collaborations between clients and employees?

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Information & technology Leadership Strategy' Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. focus and vision.

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CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Fortunes have been made from implants, surgical instruments, and artificial products. The first lays the blame at the door of the government.

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Health Care Biotechnology Mayo Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In this view, management thinking obsesses over the latest fad, and represents a kind of leadership version of the Pokémon craze. The plants that have adopted these monitoring and incentives-based management practices were far more productive, innovative, and profitable.

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Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. However, if the CAO reports to the CMO, then other business units such as product development or customer service might not feel that they get equitable treatment. An analytics revolution is coming.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Much has been made of the distinction between leadership and management. Leadership is uplifting, they imply, while management is boring — just a bunch of rigid bureaucrats spinning red tape, or emphasizing efficiency over effectiveness. Let’s bring management skills back into leadership. It wastes time and money.

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Management Real Estate Information Technology Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

It’s necessary to have a multidisciplinary team, with clinical, analytics, data science, information technology, and behavior change skill sets available from start to finish. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Educating leadership about a tool’s expected benefits is critical in generating support.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Tools Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services.

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CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Called "Why US Productivity Can Grow Without Killing Jobs," it takes as a given that this would strike readers as counterintuitive. Could it really be that businesses could become more productive and yet not find themselves with excess workers standing around? As connectivity has grown, innovation has accelerated.

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McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. And on and on.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

But the opportunities for data-science-enabled efficiencies and innovation are too important to defer or deny. An industrial products company started monitoring blogs, boards, and other social media platforms around maintenance and service complaints and then mapping that data to internal client maintenance data.

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BHAG Software Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Two articles didn't scream sustainability until you read them: " Chemical company paints rosy picture for the future ," which opens with the question, "How can a chemical company earn more money through eco-friendly products?" The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad.

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NGO Chemicals Energy Hotels 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. So leaders at many different levels need to get in on the act.

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Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is a conversation about the increasing importance of information technology and the role it must assume in every enterprise, regardless of size, industry or geography. Not only are there new systems, business and delivery models, types of information, technologies, etc., Here''s a start to that conversation.

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator.

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Many firms appear to agree that marketing is too important to be left without high-level leadership, and that CMOs should be in the C-suite bringing a marketing perspective to inform strategy. The CMO’s power to succeed isn’t only a product of firm-level decisions, of course. Why Technology Won’t End the Marketing Hierarchy.

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Power PR Marketing Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Blueprint the broader impact on roles, skills, controls, leadership, workforce and talent management, and social contracts.

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Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Advances like 3D printing and EdX, the joint venture between MIT and Harvard, mean that even industrial production and education are seeing disruption, and are also having their own incumbents lead the disruption. These executives also score highly in their social adeptness, bold leadership, and determination.

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Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

How technology is changing the way we work. The second dimension is the power to discover, manage, and use information for individual and group problem solving, innovation, and decision making. Increasingly, this element is becoming an essential foundation for leveraging digital technologies and impacting business performance.

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Technology CIO Maturity Information 8