Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. The conventional wisdom when implementing such software packages is to identify all the stakeholders and include representatives of each group on the implementation team. Jointly map the work flows before you implement the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

There’s a lot of advice out there about how to make meetings more efficient and productive. Of course, you should still be focused on achieving the meeting outcomes, but thoughtful meetings and productive ones don’t have to be at odds. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The good news is that you can control a good deal of this, and even more importantly, you can positively influence the fulfillment, productivity and retention of people in your organization. When those goals are aligned with the organization, we see higher productivity and business results. The same holds for great leadership skills.

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Company Survey Rogers Skills 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. We invite the entire product team to participate; if they have 15 or 30 minutes, they are encouraged to pop in, read some notes, and shift them to places that make sense.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. Maskot/Getty Images. You may be surprised to learn this powerful tool is already at your disposal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

With a better understanding of the marketing context, she has brought a new level of financial discipline and rigor to the marketing team. Intel formed a special Marketing ROI (MROI) team – a first-of-its-kind collaboration between marketing and finance. This has reframed the conversation to balance the interests of both sides.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. But that’s only one side of the story.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. Designing the New Product.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Roger Martin. Boring Is Productive. The Science of Building a Scalable Sales Team. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate. Maxwell Wessel.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

In a large technology firm, for example, the CEO led a bi-weekly meeting of her top 20 people to review the business and make key decisions. You and Your Team Series. Roger Schwarz. Eventually this led to crisper decisions, less off-target discussions, and generally more efficient and productive meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. Similarly, a technology firm hired a new president for one of its regions to jump-start local sales growth. In the long run, no one is happy.

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Middle Management Rogers Media Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. On the Sephora Beauty Board, community members can upload photos of their favorite “looks” with the makeup products that made it possible.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. What should it be?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

A team at MIT is focused on developing "Internet 0," a slower, simpler system for bringing IP to the smallest devices. As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible. As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” She answered readily, “To take out duplicate costs from redundant work and to get the organization on one technology platform to manage our supply chain.” You and Your Team Series. ” He also cites Roger Martin’s research , which found that 43% of managers cannot state their own strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.”

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

It may sound counterintuitive, but the single biggest thing we can do to achieve stronger results with less burnout is to shut down worthy projects, teams, and task forces. Try Prioritization Grid Sessions with your teams to identify the highest impact initiatives. Change Less, Achieve More. military.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

link] anna smith I just read an interview with Kent Williams, a team leader for Thomson Reuters. I showed this to my team, and they got a great laugh out of it.” Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

They came from training, team building and people management perspectives. Failure to keep a clear focus upon the product, its marketplace, its customers and people who influence the company’s ultimate success will eventually do great harm to the company. Push paper, systems, technology. Science-Technology Provider.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

He became an early adopter of social computing tools to communicate with employees, and in the process became a role model for adoption among his senior executive team, as well as the employee population. Coleman began blogging and soon his senior executives encouraged their teams to do so as well.

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