Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

This was the time to bring paint in 50 gallon drums, roll out a canvas the size of Texas, and put brushes in the hands of innovative designers. If you remember the eras of 1987 or 2001-2002 or 2007-2008 your experience might be similar.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked. They will seek out companies providing opportunities to learn new skills, develop new products, and even try new jobs. Sarah Sladek started researching demographic shifts, talent turnover, and generation gaps in 2002.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Hjørland & Sejer Christensen, 2002). Contact Mike… Want to increase retention of talent, satisfaction with work & production? Definition of Relevance : Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. 1 = What is relevant to people on the team.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. I Think Not.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." And Creative Destruction points out that the global markets that spur innovations in art can also, eventually, build a demand that discourages further changes. "I

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The main case for trade, though, was always that it would improve overall welfare by allowing a greater variety of products to be produced more efficiently. would shift toward work that was more valuable and innovative. companies to become more innovative? evidence is only looking at innovation in manufacturing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Emerging economies have the bulk of the world’s population, yet most of them are non-consumers of products and services that we take for granted in the West. Converting these non-consumers into consumers will require breakthrough innovations — quality products at affordable prices. Dr. Muhummad Yunus: Put poverty in a museum.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. But then, in 1942, Schumpeter reversed himself and argued that big companies had more ability and incentive to invest in new products. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. These intrinsic motivations are the invisible forces that pull you and your organization in a certain direction. By uncovering these patterns, you can unlock the motivational code for improving engagement, productivity and performance in your workplace. Decision making style.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

A few weeks back, we saw firsthand a hotbed of innovation in a place that many observers had long ago given up on. PARC fell off the innovation radar screen. It has delivered a stunning array of software and hardware innovations to global corporations, startups, and the U.S. and then letting most of it slip away.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

When John Henry and Tom Werner led the purchase of the Red Sox in 2002, pundits believed they had to leave Fenway Park. Hosting parties in December is just one example of how the ownership team has found innovative ways to increase the revenues it derives from Fenway. The ownership has introduced other business model innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Many people suggest that rates of new product introduction and adoption are speeding up, but is it really, across the board? As you can see from the chart, innovations introduced more recently are being adopted more quickly. Innovation Strategy' The answer seems to be yes.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. You will have created a culture conducive to collaboration, greater employee engagement and enhanced productivity. 2010), and even looking into the impact of facial features (DeBruine, Lisa, 2002).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies. Take Cisco, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). While these factors will remain important, in the next decade China must put greater reliance on productivity growth — the ability to get greater output from existing labor and capital stocks.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft. This constrained innovation space is a direct result of Intel's commoditization strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. There was also no way that Apple could have met its tight product timelines, or kept its products shrouded in secrecy until launch, without fierce commitments from its employees.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

To find an innovative way forward, we looked beyond our own industry because traditional approaches in health care management had not evolved much over the previous decades. To honor Mrs. McClinton’s legacy, we created an annual award that recognizes a team that improves quality and safety through innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In all the tributes to Steve Jobs, what people recall is not these numbers, of course, but the innovations, the man himself, and what he stood for. And that is the remarkable thing: during his tenure, Apple brought amazing products to the world, while also achieving out-of-this world financial performance. Hid did it all.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

So were the currency and debt crises of 1997 and 1998, and the stock market collapse of 2000-2002. and Europe, though (and Japan's long struggles were seen as the product of peculiarly Japanese economic traits). So they moved on (Brock's Santa Fe affiliation ended in 2002). None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

In 2002, the year Alibaba.com first became profitable, founder Jack Ma gathered a handful of employees in his office and told them there was a secret project that they had the opportunity to join. Though Ma’s apartment no longer serves as a rite of passage for Alibaba’s innovators, the culture it created lives on.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Before 2018, it had the three standard board committees — governance, compensation, and audit — plus a technology and risk committee to cover important areas such as product risk, cybersecurity, and technological innovation. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. Most retailers will struggle to do this because they haven’t architected their product or customer data for easy access by the new digital capabilities. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

As a Bloomberg story summarized : "Some 22 million manufacturing jobs were lost globally between 1995 and 2002 as industrial output soared 30 percent. It seems that devilish productivity is wreaking havoc with jobs both at home and abroad.". He takes the argument up a level across industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Tom Falk, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark Corporation since 2002, talks about how the paper company is taking on environmental issues and has been practicing sustainability for 140 years. We first introduced Neve Compacto, a low-energy paper product, in Italy, to help retailers save shelf space and moms save room in their storage closet.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

What is interesting is Google's philosophy of launching early and quickly, and their perhaps too-quick closure of some products. The product was announced with formidable press and very high expectations amidst the belief that it would revolutionize e-mail and other forms of communication. Google Answers (April 2002 to November 2006).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work. Part two includes all the activities associated with selling something: finding and reaching customers, transacting a sale, distributing the product, or delivering the service.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. stock exchanges in 2002 to identify causation rather than mere correlation. Productivity also improves in plants sold by hedge funds.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”)

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