Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. Build certification into your training.

Training 9

Training White Paper Agility Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2018

In my experience, startup and technical business leaders don’t tell their innovation stories well. From my vantage point at MaRS , the Toronto-based start-up innovation hub, I have the opportunity to meet, interview, and write about some of the remarkable people and discoveries emerging from Canadian institutes and startups.

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Press Release Storytelling White Paper Magazine 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

When big business leaders think about social media they tend to focus on three things: innovative technologies, marketing applications, and IPOs — the three factors that make Facebook and Twitter so hot. But if that's the focus, it's surely misplaced. The German car site motor-talk.de

White Paper 10

White Paper IPO Media Film 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

But although these flexibility strategies are critical to attracting Millennials, from our review of the current research and experience advising global Fortune 500 companies, we believe that businesses will have to go further to keep these workers truly engaged. These enhance opportunities for both innovation and Millennial engagement.

Policies 8

Policies Motivation Chief Executive Officer White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

A report (PDF) from Gensler Architecture found that only half of the US workforce feels that their environment empowers them to innovate, while another white paper (PDF) from office design specialist Steelcase found that 70% of workers today waste up to 15 minutes just looking for a space to meet and 24% waste up to half an hour.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork White Paper Brainstorming Sample 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

IBM has transformed itself many times since its inception in the late 19th century and is on a continuous journey of innovation and transformation to help clients win in their ever-changing markets. To read the Harvard Business Review Analytics Services paper sponsored by IBM, click here.

Agility 8

Agility Content CIO Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Our review of historical data and major automakers’ announced plans indicates that connectivity devices in cars will increase from 22% in 2017 to 69% by 2020, laying the foundation for automakers to significantly lessen the need for car owners to bring their vehicle to a facility for maintenance. Services: offline vs. online.

Automotive 8

Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. So consider leaving the latest white papers, industry rundowns, and management hot takes at the office. It challenges us to wonder whether we’re even asking the right questions.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 14

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. Harvard Business Review Analytics Services. MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global. For sample competencies, feel free to read our white paper at www.sme-squared.com. About Mark.

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Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." It drives hard work, innovation, and the success of the capitalist system. The Financial Services Roundtable, the lobbying group for the biggest financial companies in the U.S., The largest U.S.

Finance 13

Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many leading companies such as Airbnb, Spotify, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have adopted Agile as a way of managing innovation and product development. Amazon makes extensive use of well-researched white papers to help focus the management team on critical decisions. Not all decisions are treated equally.

Agility 8

Agility White Paper How To Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves. Be skeptical of the white papers that are offered for free by vendors and research firms.

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Engaging Leader

AUGUST 25, 2015

Focusing on goals establishes a business culture of innovation and collaboration because you are measuring ongoing operations, not a single point in time. Resources Mentioned in This Episode Podcast: GC02: Badge of Engagement Website: BetterWorks White Paper: Goal Science Best Practices Article: Does Performance Management Make the Grade?

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Goal White Paper Bottom-up Operations 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

To drive shareholder value and be a catalyst for economic recovery, our nation's largest companies must deploy their assets in a productive manner, either internally for innovation and organic growth, or externally for corporate venture capital investments, research partnerships, joint ventures and alliances, or acquisitions.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

By tracking the activities of customers on our website, Chalk realized that 26 percent of visitors were dropping off before they registered for a free white paper we were offering on our product. You’re not killing creativity or innovation, just seeking naturally curious employees with updated skills.

Marketing 9

Marketing Organization Content Storytelling 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

If you had zilch , you'd have to be more innovative, more passionate, and more creative. Many not-for-profit board members work on various special projects or white papers with disparate members of the staff. You'd have to make the most of what you do have.

White Paper 10

White Paper CTO Diversity Constraint 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The execution plan has some interesting elements (see a pithy white paper on the full carbon neutrality plan here ). It's innovative and committed, but it also points to a massive global failure of leadership on climate policy. So how will Microsoft make this initiative a reality?

Price 13

Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.”

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

“Organizations need to keep changing, adapting, and innovating,” he says. “You can’t expect to write a white paper and slap it on people’s desks.” . “It’s hard to get people to listen to your idea, to understand your idea, and to take action.” ” Ashford concurs.

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Project Restructuring Hotels Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program. “You need to have people active at conferences, writing papers and helping the field advance. vincent tsui FOR HBR.

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Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

I think our brightest engineers can develop innovative privacy-enhancing technologies which will enable new techniques for data analytics that minimize costs to privacy. The only way we will buy this time is if companies learn to say, "no" to some of the privacy-invading innovations they're pursuing. MORE ON CUSTOMER INTELLIGENCE.

White Paper 13

White Paper Information Report Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. They inherently raise all the right questions and challenges any serious innovator should have about crossing the digital divide. Test innovative ideas? Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Engineering 8

Engineering Company White Paper Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

In fact, each of these innovations is already up and running somewhere in the world today, with more happening every day. A single, voice-activated digital assistant ready to answer any civic question. How far ahead do you think you’d have to jump to make these things happen? Five years? They are signs of profound change.

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Content Transportation Osborne Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But as the carbon vortex gains momentum, there is also evidence of an equal and opposite vortex pulling us toward breakthrough innovation and a more sustainable future. Remember the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund’s landmark commitment to run down its coal industry holdings.

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Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

economy, according to white paper issued by 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future at Harvard University. Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business. About 30 percent of them are in wholesale or retail.

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Company Content White Paper Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2017

In our white paper, “A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare,” we proposed a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs using blockchain technology, which we called MedRec. As our next step, we plan to enhance the MedRec pilot with more data types, more data contributors, and more data users.

Health Care 8

Health Care Decentralization White Paper Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Per a new white paper that The Chertoff Group published, governments can best ensure the protection of critical assets in cyberspace by following eight key principles for authentication policy: Have a plan that explicitly addresses authentication.

Policies 8

Policies White Paper Technology Incentives 8