Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

This is CEO Shigetaka Komari's own story of why Fujifilm succeeded where Eastman Kodak failed with hard-won lessons for managers and employees everywhere. In 2000, Shigetaka Komori, author of Innovating Out of Crisis , became president of Fujifilm and said, "The whole of Fujifilm was depending on my managerial skills to make it happen.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

To be innovative is to act with creativity by experimenting with how things get done in ways that are good for you and for the people around you--taking realistic steps aimed at scoring four-way wins. HE ENCOURAGES INNOVATION IN HIMSELF AND OTHERS. A great storyteller must be a great listener.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. This veritable Big Bang delivers a plethora of examples so great in number, only a computer could manage to learn from them. These predicaments matter. Introducing.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. Now Boeing needs hundreds of engineers just to design and produce engines." But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn't work.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. was the joyous cry that rang out across the central quad at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the night of August 5, 2012. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In addition, the group manages guest ranches in Montana, PGA Tour Superstores, and the Arthur M. Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. One story that stands out for me came from some of the foundry managers. Blank Family Foundation.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

International Harvester changed its name to Navistar International in 1986 when it sold its farm equipment business and entered the truck, diesel engine, and bus markets. The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time. No wonder there’s a smile on the box.

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Curious Cat

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

I have written a few posts on my science and engineering blog about his work over the years including a short post on the first web server (Tim’s NeXT computer). I was working for the Office of Secretary of Defense, Quality Management Office at the time. Another person wanted to cancel their dentist appointment for tomorrow.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. Bad news, right? But I'm not certain such surveys tell the whole story.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. Instead, what they should have done is innovate a new business model.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

In three recent blog posts we looked at the innovation mindset in individuals, profiling game changers Jerry Buss , Peter Jackson , and Shantha Ragunathan. Innovators maintain a laser focus on outcomes , avoid getting caught in the activity trap , and proactively "expand the pie" to make an impact. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. A forward-thinking plant manager modified the Deming Philosophy to create something called “The Livonia Philosophy.”. That sounds very much like the Toyota Production System and Lean management.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Morning Star is one of the world's leading processors of tomatoes and one of the most progressive models of a self-managed enterprise. Story by Jim Lavoie. Story by Frédéric Leconte.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. Like so many others living with diabetes care, he stayed awake late into the night managing his son’s blood sugar, checking and adjusting every few hours. That was enough for Lane. He left to pursue the ideas on his own.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. In 2016, the U.S. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. Many people, including quite a few U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% We see a rich pipeline of innovation ahead in both developed and emerging economies. over the next 50 years. We disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Saul Kaplan , Chief Catalyst at Business Innovation Factory, shares: "My life has been about searching for the steep learning curve because that's where I do my best work.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. Project management skills particular to social media ; such as search engine optimization (SEO), blogger influencer outreach, media buying and more. MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global.

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Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

That was the question we put to a global community of hackers and innovators in the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. In just two-and-a-half months, we received some 148 entries from leaders, thinkers, and innovators of all stripes, from every corner of the globe. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Netflix, for example, has used crowdsourcing to improve its recommendation engine by 10%, attracting over 44,000 submissions. In 2012 the party decided that it would crowdsource its platform instead of determining it internally. It is the role of managers to make crowdsourcing successful by fighting these tendencies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Tapping into this talent has implications for HR management, calling for new approaches to screening talent, including sourcing, selection, and role definition. Across the U.S., Sourcing for Commitment. ”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It includes five health system engineers, five administrative staff, and 15 physicians representing multiple specialities as well as Mayo Clinic sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The Mayo Quality Academy offers 30 courses, ranging from Lean and Six-Sigma to Human Factors and Change Management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

After all, everyone is “seeing the same data, interacting with the same people, and having the same conversations, so it’s no surprise that the ideas coming out feel as though they’ve all been done before,” says Scott Anthony, the managing partner of Innosight and the author of The First Mile. Bring in different points of view.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

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