Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." Rather than struggle against austerity, British Games organizers have embraced it as a driver for change. The leaders behind the upcoming Olympic Games have encouraged individual teams to innovate across functions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

But according to a new report, 2016 Predictions for the Luxury Industry: Sustainability and Innovation , that sustainability gap is closing fast. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo have produced movies and started organizations to tackle climate change and promote renewable energy. None of this is easy or obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Our job was to come up with innovative ideas to move our country forward and for that we needed the space to think and be creative. For the Prime Minister, it also meant that he had to empower his team to make autonomous decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

was the watchword of tourism. No, this is carefully managed chaos. This may require a new kind of manager. But managing, creating, and delivering randomness means living with variation. Can we make our organizations produce the new flow of randomness, variety, and delight? No surprises!" Our life is unpredictable.

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Hotels Due Diligence Tourism Travel 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

"Our new service tested off the charts — more than 5% of customers we surveyed said they would buy it," one reader at a not-for-profit organization emailed me. "We Most organizations have an untapped asset walking their hallways every day. We launched it. The results were disappointing.". Remember, customers lie.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Seminar Tourism 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. The unhappy innovation inference? No one disagreed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard. Its success was achieved by a culture of innovation and the speedy introduction of new products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Internally, several parts of an organization may have to sign off on making such changes; externally, the process of finding new suppliers and contracting can be time-consuming. The sooner firms have a Brexit plan, the faster they can focus on managing these competitive dynamics. Relying on historical data is risky too.

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Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Some might say that you have somewhat shifted the blame from individuals to organizations, or as you put it, from nincompoops to Nincompoopery.

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