Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Rogers’ classic Diffusion of Innovation Theory – buy products en masse after the “early adopters.” Should I keep the work in-house, or outsource it? We began by outsourcing the work but found ourselves being charged to cross every ‘t’ and dot every ‘i.’

Productivity 10

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

So, as I went into the full business review, it never occurred to me that Jobs wouldn't appreciate the channel program. These businesses seem committed to doing what they already know, and despite Roger Martin's guidance that you can't analyze your way to growth , companies continue to think of growth creation using the rearview mirror.

Learning-by-Doing 15

Learning-by-Doing Rogers Marketing Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Widespread outsourcing of those functions to markets has skewed incentives and provided huge windfalls for individuals who now consider themselves entitled to such rewards. Instead, they mostly outsource the decision-making to Glass Lewis and ISS. They''re supposed to represent shareholder interests, so this seems logical.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions. An independent steering committee’s first “gate” review of the project, at the end of the conceptual-design stage, had been scheduled for Week 15; she postpones it to Week 33. What went wrong?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Philosophers such as Sanders Pierce and design thinkers such as Roger Martin have long proposed the ability of human minds to perform leaps of logic to get to creative solutions. Technological change is causally connected to the stagnation of median income and the growth of inequality in the United States.

Drucker 8

Drucker Technology Efficiency Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

And fans have shown up at games waving signs aimed at the players (“ Protest on your own time, not on my dime “) and the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell (“ Goodell stand up for the anthem ”). Politicians, team owners, and fans alike seem baffled and perplexed by what the players are doing.

Rogers 8

Rogers Class Talent Management Outsourcing 8