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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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. They play well as a team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. Despite flouting straightforward, widely applicable law in most jurisdictions, Uber usually managed to slow or stop enforcement, in due course changing the law to allow its approach. A Race to the Bottom.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Based on better customer retention alone, management estimates this innovation has boosted annual revenues by $10 to $20 million.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. Now picture this group engaged in brainstorming, negotiations, or expansion planning. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. What do you do?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% For example, Vox Capital — founded in Brazil in 2008 by three young social entrepreneurs — invests in innovative, high-potential businesses that serve low-income populations and contribute to the reduction of poverty. growth in GDP.

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