Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As consumers are more and more demanding that they see the provenance of items they purchase to ensure they align with their values, leaders are being forced to rethink their supply chain and the materials that they use. “There will be times when prioritizing values, especially trust, will come at the expense of profits.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc.,

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Andy O’Connell Maybe Not Does Innovation Always Lead to Gentrification? Pacific Standard Every struggling city hopes to grow an “innovation district” that will populate its old brick warehouses with teams of brainy entrepreneurs. Innovators don’t create affordable housing,” Kyle Chayka writes in Pacific Standard.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Since reading that I've often pondered the subject and today, I find it helpful to look at my experience of how good designers think (and do) at each stage of the innovation process: insights, inspiration, and action. Good designers can act as a translator between functional silos as different as supply chain, marketing and R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

A lot of the work and innovation coming out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is created for military usage, but then becomes commercialized for business application (this includes computer networking and the first hypertext system, which was an early form of the graphical user interface).

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