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.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

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.

Innovation 226

Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 226

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online. No strategy is static.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

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. Futurists call them “weak signals.”

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Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

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.

P&L 13

P&L Construction Survey Stress 13

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.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Most companies have been slow to react.

Company 11

Company Insurance Engineering Software 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. Economy Education Technology'

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. Sure, it's an industry show, and the press here understands technology, but how do you think they will communicate about your product if all you give them is tech specs? For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology.

Marketing 15

Marketing Press Release Wireless Industry 15

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Wireless Resources 8

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

.” Before long, Lane left GE to join medical device firm Medtronic and within months he was leading the engineering team commercializing an “adaptive cruise control” system to partially automate insulin delivery. Citizen hackers are enabled by technology but they are motivated by passion. That was enough for Lane.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Business Model System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Business model innovation is hard. 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.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. greater revenue growth 34.7%

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Customer Need As a Catalyst For Purpose.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

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. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.

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Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

Without knowing their place in Indian life, an outsider might take one look at their loud engines and open sides and suggest that rickshaws should be replaced with modern vehicles that are faster, bigger, and more comfortable. Fortunately, there really is an app — and other technology — for that. Innovation in Cities.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Price Innovation 8

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. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

Chief Technology Officer 12

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

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% Some are skeptical about whether technology can continue to deliver the rapid productivity gains it did in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” In other words, today’s innovators don’t “go global”—globality is baked into their origins. Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. from 2012 to 2014. For Silicon Valley, however, that proportion rises to 45%.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Two years ago, Swedish communications technology giant Ericsson found itself looking for a way to explain the value it saw in the Internet of Things. Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live.

Education 12

Education Human Resources Participative Training 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

It's also how we should think about the way the Internet is developing, and about the way our choices in how we use technology are shaping this global brain. Vint Cerf, considered one of the co-creators of the Internet's architecture, wrote in a 2012 New York Times Op-Ed that "The Internet stands at a crossroads.

Globalization 13

Globalization Film Participative Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data? Graetz and Michaels calculate, for example, that robotics have of late increased labor productivity by about 0.35% annually — or by about the same amount as did the steam engine, a classic example of a GPT, during the years 1850 to 1910.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

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. A study conducted by Innovate + Educate , which uses research-based strategies to address the U.S. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

Organization 8

Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The Big Data wars are hardly limited to the media industry. million apiece on it last year.

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

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.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. Universities like Stanford, Caltech, and UC Berkeley continue to churn out the next generation of founders and engineers. Why would we turn to any other place to start Infor''s next chapter?

Software 8

Software Diversity Engineering Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. There is so much to learn, borrow, and build upon in these winning entries when it comes to how we can use the principles, and tools of the Web to make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Story by Jim Lavoie.

Management 11

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. This is the title of the first day of the 28-day training program in the back of The Little Black Book of Innovation. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. They are less interested in technologies per se than in playing with established ways of doing things and conventional ways of thinking, creating, learning, and being.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher!” Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. 1 form of self-expression.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Immigrants represent 27.5% of the countries’ entrepreneurs but only around 13% of the population. And this pattern extends beyond the U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8