Strategy Driven

JULY 24, 2013

Why IT Struggles to Innovate, and How IT Management Can Fix It. This eBook explores the root causes of IT inefficiency in enterprise companies and discusses methods IT management has used to overcome them, turning their IT departments into innovation superstars. Why does IT struggle to innovate? by OutSystems.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In a recent article , I charted the way in which Sweden utilized the possibilities presented by the widespread adoption of electrical energy to transform its economy and itself as a country. The company, which was founded in 2013, currently has around 46 solar installations generating over 500 megawatts across Europe.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2012

12/21/12 – Images used in presentations & Articles. 12/28/12 – Team Building & Leadership Blog Articles. Some were leaked super secret to the Create-Learning Letter a mostly-monthly newsletter that has Organization Development, Team Building, Managerial-Leadership, Experiential Theory application + articles + ideas.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2014

If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Why IT Struggles to Innovate, and How IT Management Can Fix It.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation. Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Inflate budgets.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market. About the Author.

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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. This article is adapted a Fast Company adaptation of Stew''s book, with his permission).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Too often, startup CEOs cling to old business models as their reason for success, when in reality it was their innovation and risk-taking that helped them succeed in the first place. Instead of building an entirely new tribe (like with AdKarma), we started building small groups within the old structure to champion important projects.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This lack of listening is a tremendous source of waste.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

words for 2013 – I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. One innovation helping me significantly is Dragon Dictate for Mac. I have more projects and opportunities than I can say grace over. In my experience, there are very few things more frustrating than the mental nag of a project undone.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Great leaders are wide open to new ideas and innovation. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. We’re glad to hear that you thought the article worked as an entire book. We wanted to make sure we gave enough in the article to get people interested in the book, but we obviously didn’t want to give away everything good in the article.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. Unregulated and a relatively new innovation, trusts were the ‘ toxic assets ‘ of the 1907 crises. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. earlier this month.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The authors offer up five additional strategies in the full article. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1. Looking for more?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TEST : pilot test new ideas and projects and welcome mistakes and failures that show up. We can choose to look at failures, at least in our daily lives, as life practice, learning, a pilot project, as experimentation, or even a legitimate part of any innovation process. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR''s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We''ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR’s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We’ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The authors offer up five additional strategies in the full article. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1. Looking for more?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For a CCA to work, five elements need to be present: A common project: The main pre-requisite for a CCA to work is a common project, initiative, or the search for a solution to an existing problem within the company. Collaborative: CCAs are not solo pet projects, but require employees to work together.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

I felt like somebody had shared a bootleg tape of my favorite band, as I wasn’t sure the article had ever been formally published anywhere. Since I wasn’t sure if it was a public article, I didn’t share it widely and didn’t blog about it. This lack of understanding isn’t the fault of these individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products. How Google manages.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

But, as an HBR article on this topic once pointed out, even commodities have customers. And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Italcementi has achieved this through a co-innovation process with great contemporary architects. This project called for cement walls able to filter light.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., In an HBR article , two management school professors found that an age-integrated assembly line resulted in improved productivity, reduced absenteeism, and fewer defects. Nesterly , an intergenerational homesharing service, is one of these promising innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 cut of sales.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A 2013 article in The Ochsner Journal, titled “Just Culture: A Foundation for Balanced Accountability and Patient Safety,” concluded that “a fair and just culture improves patient safety by empowering employees to proactively monitor the workplace and participate in safety efforts in the work environment.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

But there is another, equally compelling reason why unicorns are dying: failure to innovate when competitors catch up. But now we’re seeing that in the face of strong competition, some of these very same unicorns are struggling not only to keep up, but to keep innovating beyond their first breakthrough.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The company commissions strongly edited articles on well-defined themes while simultaneously allowing anyone in the world to post their writing on Medium. Founded by Evan Williams of Twitter, the company established itself by paying talented writers and editors to develop individually branded “collections” of articles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In my research on innovators, I like to draw the distinction between “path finders” and “path creators.” He is the originator of the “social streets” movement now spreading across Italy, so the innovation he created literally involves a path: the street in which he and his family live in Bologna.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In addition, the Affordable Care Act has set in motion a large number of pilot programs, experiments, and demonstration projects involving new methods of paying for care and organizing providers. These innovations include bundled payments and accountable care organizations. Not all of these innovations will succeed.

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