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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Julie Winkle Giulioni from juliewinklegiulioni.com presents Want to Kill Young Workers'' Motivation and Drive? Four small words are all it takes to extinguish motivation, choke off possibilities, discourage, demoralize and drive young workers away.

Leadership Development 249

Leadership Development Development Leadership Lewin 249

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.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

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. As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Collectively, the UN projects, the less developed regions of the world “will grow 58% over 50 years, as opposed to 2% for more developed regions. Nigeria, in particular (with a population projected to exceed that of the USA by 2050 ), will increase its workforce threefold in the next 50 years.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

He made it clear that he makes choices for reasons beyond just the profit motive. At one of the company’s sustainability ”milestone meetings” in 2013, one senior exec said the initiatives would “help us keep our stores up and running no matter how bad the weather is or who else might be down.”

CEO 8

CEO ROI Environment Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments. Here, the government’s innovative capacity shone through.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Their innovative system has increased productivity and quality, reduced environmental impact and costs, and increased global competitiveness.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Marissa Mayer’s move to ban working from home at Yahoo in 2013 caused a media firestorm over the costs and benefits of this rapidly growing practice. While many firms that depend on innovation discourage WFH because they want interaction among employees, many occupations have these same characteristics as at Ctrip.

Policies 8

Policies Call Center Attitude Survey Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

We’ve used this data for public-health projects such as tracking the impact of the Affordable Care Act in practices , monitoring the spread of influenza, surfacing novel insights about pediatric mental health , and synthesizing the first national map of antibiotic resistance.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Are you stalled in a project at work, waiting on someone else to take initiative to get things moving? It doesn't always mean you have authority over a project. Honda quickly followed up by announcing a new release for 2013, a year ahead of the original plan. Nor does it mean that you shouldn't involve others.

Short-term 8

Short-term Case Study Learning-by-Doing Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. We wanted to take a deeper look at some of the more abstract aspects of workplace design that can impact employee performance.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Survey Motivation Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Change leaders are visionaries.

Middle Management 13

Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To expect anything as complex as this particular project to emerge fully functional on day one was the first (and perhaps most important) failure. The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. Playing the blame game.

Company 8

Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

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. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

The founder and former CEO and Chairman of Lululemon Atheltica is, in point of fact, a highly successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, innovator, and self-made billionaire. But a 2013 Bloomberg TV interview with him and his wife Shannon, Lululemon’s original athletic wear designer, was not one of his finest moments.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Information Definition Positioning 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. They are inherently motivated to develop their countries of origin. Understand the motivations of diaspora communities. If long-term infrastructure buildout is key, the focus could be on diaspora participation in these projects.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Unfortunately for the accused, they are students — not engineers or project managers — and the professor meant to ban such collaboration in his instructions to the test. Traditional schooling frequently fails to prepare students to think critically, innovate, and be creative.

Education 8

Education Incentives Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 8