Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. Improves lives and heightens human interactions.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

This is what happened at Amazon when an employee created a software prototype that would make personalized recommendations to customers based on items in their online shopping carts. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. They must embrace a new leadership model.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. “We know from experience how hard it is to find senior software developers. Finding heroes. Coding for success. “Our students are proof of this.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 22, 2013

Gore & Associates, the materials firm famous for innovative products such as Gore-Tex and for its radically nonhierarchical management structure. Software engineers and designers are basing their thinking on what has come to be called Dunbar’s Number. . Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013. Related articles.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Would the traditional host organization reject the new software center as an alien entity?

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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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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity. Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements , which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software. Uber brought some important improvements to the taxi business, which are at this point well known.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Perhaps the HealthCare.gov gang that couldn’t code straight had never heard this software mantra. The better question and concern is, where was the leadership and oversight helping to assure Obamacare’s implementation success? Obamacare’s leadership and governance simply wasn’t serious. Are they right?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Moreover, the innovations lying at the heart of the unicorns’ success stories are digital innovations. Unicorns are: Small in size.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Translation software? That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? out of a possible 990 in February 2013. That''s not a cost-effective strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Although the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Bill of 2013 — introduced four weeks ago by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. For some time now, it has been obvious that these companies will have to go beyond the offshoring model that served them well in the past and develop innovative new ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. Toys become total ecosystems of innovation, collaboration and adaptation. Many of our assumptions about what motivates and dissuades people are wrong-especially when knowledge, creativity and innovation are desired.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. While Verizon worked on shifting the momentum from landlines and voice to smartphones, FiOS (fiber-optic communication systems), and cloud services, mini-innovators created software and streamlined processes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. Or consider managed-health care provider Humana’s decision in 2013 to recruit an outsider as its next chief executive. Leadership Microsoft Succession planning'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting July 1st — the beginning of the company's fiscal year 2013 — the software giant will charge all of its 100-plus global offices and datacenters a fee for every ton of carbon they produce (mostly from plugging into the electric grid, so-called "indirect" emissions).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Drawing on the software development practices known as Agile, Scrum, and XP, the teams work in short, iterative cycles of test-driven development with direct customer feedback as the work proceeds.). Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival. They constitute a coherent constellation of leadership and management practices.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. That is leadership. How could this be?, Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. That’s because overload is a surmountable crisis—under the right leadership. An innovator? Consider the case of Norwegian Cruise Line. Were we a price cutter?

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