Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

To guide companies in innovative ways, boards must know what innovative looks like. At old line retailer JC Penney, Ron Johnson, the former head of Apple's retail operation, was recently appointed CEO — though the news of late calls into question how well these marriages of new and old worlds will fare.

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Retail CEO Health Care Middle Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

And, like any new technology making its entrance into office life, it was met with profoundly mixed feelings. But behind the fear, excitement, and macroeconomics of it all are the people and places that are deeply affected by new and different technology, day in and day out. How technology is changing the way we work.

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Technology Decentralization Short-term Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) For example, more than 20 years after electronics test equipment maker Teradyne launched its improvement program, managers still refer to it as TQM.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Capitalize on success.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? CEOs (and to some extent, CMOs) are so preoccupied with Wall Street and/or the management fad of the day that their eye has drifted from the heartbeat of their brands. With the exception of niche, specialty, and technology markets, I see little evidence of this. Some do it well.

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Brand CEO Stage-Gate SWOT 168

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. Such leaders understand that a push to undertake a new strategy or to redirect operational performance depends pivotally on how well they communicate with employees.

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Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash. Middle managers were confused about what to do, and many pushed their local agendas at the expense of the company's overall best interests. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead.

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Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. She’d come up with the idea of revamping the company’s inventory management approach by networking together “sleeping” resources. The Politics of Innovation.

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Politics Innovation Project How To 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

The globalization of talent and technology frees up companies to experiment with new ways of filling critical skill gaps while staying lean. ” While cost is clearly a consideration, managers describe the primary benefits of agile talent as increasing flexibility, speed, and innovation. Manage the politics.

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Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

A number of cities, in particular, have become hotbeds of innovation, in no small part because of the fiscal strains they face. which is spurring rank-and-file workers to view themselves as innovators — a tough thing for many corporations to get right. The first is exemplified by South Bend, Ind., Take Louisville, Ky.,

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Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76