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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Randolph takes us through the whole process from idea to launch day. And creating an innovative culture: Real innovation comes not from top-down pronouncements and narrowly defined tasks. His self-knowledge made is easier for him to know when it was time to go as he eventually did in 2003 not long after Netflix went public.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Leading companies such as IBM, Ford, and Avery Dennison are making major improvements in key processes by creating online communities to share deep knowledge. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Collaborating horizontally to create customer value.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. Create opportunities for people to engage in professional development and acquire new skills. Culture and Cognitive Processes: From Arbitration to Accommodation. References: Bandura, A.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

The one certain outcome of these two strategies, of course, is to accelerate the commoditization process itself. And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Italcementi has achieved this through a co-innovation process with great contemporary architects.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. But one innovation pitfall is particularly insidious because it doesn’t involve an outright failure; in fact, these product launches actually do well in the marketplace. Most definitely.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Take this example from our experience of one old-school hiring process, in which an IT firm disheartened several qualified candidates with an overly formal and invasive first-round interview. As proprietors of a college-focused recruiting firm since 2003, we've seen examples like this again and again.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

In the process, more than 600 million people have escaped poverty. percentage points in 2003-2012. In fact, China is already experiencing a labor shortage: Wages are rising and it is losing its labor-cost advantage to other developing countries. China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. Sepsis can be such a process. Clinicians need predictions to be meaningful and receive them early in the deterioration process. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

New process improvement initiatives tend to start with some hype. Finally: "This may sound like process improvement programs that failed here before, but believe me, this is much better. Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

It’s easy to assume Apple Pay is one in a long line of disruptive innovations from the master of serial disruption. The introduction of iTunes in 2003 was disruptive relative to the big four music-recording labels Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, EMI Group, and Warner Music Group. But this time that’s not the case.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. Through discussions with diverse stakeholders, he turned the problem upside down: the answer might not be about developing a more efficient collection process, but about reducing the need for frequent trash collection.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Other research suggests shared leadership can also lead to greater team interaction, increased collaboration and coordination, as well as novel and more innovative solutions. Explore and understand each other’s strengths and expertise, then go through a detailed process of agreeing who is responsible for what.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

The key lies in developing and exploiting "proprietary data" — data that you and you alone possess. Without such data it is simply too easy for competitors to let you do the hard work of innovation, then copy your insights and erode your competitive advantage. Others don't have access to these data.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

That is an astonishing development. The official answer is a series of labor market reforms initiated in 2003 under the " Agenda 2010 " framework. More important was the way employers and unions used the collective bargaining process to arrive at much more flexible labor arrangements. How did Germany get back on track?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

For agri-food and beverage businesses, fresh water is an essential ingredient in their production process. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the White House Task Force on Climate Change. "To Since joining Coca-Cola in 2003, Seabright has helped facilitate hundreds of community water projects across the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy. Each video showed Khan writing on a graphics tablet while talking about the subject.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Between 1984 and 2003, this once-popular software application went from 40 features to more than 1500, with 35 tool bars! The classic example of using data to achieve product success is the multi-step e-commerce checkout process. Rule 5: Innovation is not instant. Users were overwhelmed, and many turned to simpler alternatives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 Innovating for Value in Health Care. Previous efforts at consistent patient screening employed a manual process. million to 3.3 Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

It uses two currencies, the convertible Peso (CUP) valued on par with the dollar and fully tradeable, and the Cuban Peso (CUC) valued at a rate of 24:1 with the dollar, which creates severe constraints for the development of Cuba’s export sector. This effectively means that these wages are overvalued by as much as 2400%.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. The customer-listening process continued with every proposed feature. When the Cayenne came to market in 2003, it was an instant hit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. In developing countries, primary care tends to be delivered by a mix of public and private sector providers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

It began its lean journey in 2003 and has made considerable progress. The physician leads the clinical assessment and planning process but as a team member/partner. As with the original design, these adaptations were made using lean tools for ongoing process improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

By reversing the normal process, we can build standardized systems on a factory-floor with rapid on-site erection. This development plan can be scaled to build 3 million or 30 million units per year, if needed. The picture reproduced below is one example of a completed development using this system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is delivered to patients. Data analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S., Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs. will also be pivotal in that process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

In 2003 a doctor with SARS unknowingly infected several guests while staying at a Hong Kong hotel, and overnight the virus reached across the globe. Faster Vaccine Development. Though there has been rapid progress in developing and getting a vaccine to market, it is not fast enough, and Zika has already spread worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. Its structures and processes have been reengineered to maximize value.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. Founded by entrepreneur Ben Kaufman, Quirky developed a platform that connected the company with outside inventors and project contributors. Marrion Barraud for HBR. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt.

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