Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Along the way it became famous for its reliance on exceedingly difficult interview questions — later abandoned — and its “20% time” policy — reportedly on its way out. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. How Google manages.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Finally, we are continuing to optimize our WFA policies to ensure that work, wherever our band members choose to do it, is optimized for each individual while still connecting them to Spotify’s culture and ensuring a sense of belonging to the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

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. After all, one of the big reasons that insurers sell long term policies is the high up-front cost of selling.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. Innovation in this case, and many others, requires invention. City innovators have to move fast before it does. Let me explain.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. Lower-income consumers also present a lucrative opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

I’d like to share what I learned while leading an SBM — to help other states as they navigate the health insurance landscape and, more broadly, to inform health-system leaders, employers, and policy makers about the challenges SBMs face and the solutions they’re developing. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Digital technology unfolded on top of a second force that had been building for a few decades: a global movement in public policy towards economic liberalization which was systematically reducing barriers to the movement of goods, money, people, and ideas across the boundaries of nations and industries.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Operations Research Strategy' I haven''t actually seen Prof. Coase since I moved from Chicago ten years ago. If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 2013, The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation launched the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, a program that proponents hoped could rein in health care costs by “bundling” payment for the full gamut of services that comprise an episode of care. Hero Images/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash. Innovation and change. They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In 2013, Ashley Stewart was on the brink of bankruptcy — its second in a little over three years. Decades of operating losses and rampant turnover in both the employee base and ownership group had cemented a fearful culture. To give her a chance, I resigned from the board to become CEO in August 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

A number of cities, in particular, have become hotbeds of innovation, in no small part because of the fiscal strains they face. which is spurring rank-and-file workers to view themselves as innovators — a tough thing for many corporations to get right. The first is exemplified by South Bend, Ind., Take Louisville, Ky.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

And, determined to protect its own, India enacted a rigid FDI policy restricting foreign multibrand retailers from selling directly to consumers online. Challenges, possibly even hurdles, for Amazon, but not insurmountable ones — they just required an innovative business model, beginning with finding products to sell.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. That’s the good news.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The problem is that to date there has been little work to document the extent of Arab contributions to American innovation. innovation. innovation system, we ran an exercise matching Arabic first names with international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). In 2013 there were approximately 1.02

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

For entrepreneurs, investors, and policy makers, there is plenty to learn from both the strategy and the outcome. Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent JPMorgan/GIIN report , impact investors invested nearly $11 billion across 4,900 deals in 2013, up 250% from 2011. In the 2013 class of Echoing Green Fellows , five of the 12 nonprofits earn revenue, and five of the seven for-profit companies have received donations. social entrepreneurs now have more options.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

In speeches on July 13 and July 24, front-runner Hillary Clinton first outlined and then elaborated upon her policy agenda for combating what she calls “quarterly capitalism.” A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

But country-level and regional policy moved forward: Australia passed a carbon tax , South Korea approved carbon trading , and California just began its own trading experiment. a backdoor approach to climate policy took over. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In an era when monetary policy seems to have been stretched to the limit, and fiscal policies are constrained by debt and reluctance to spend, businesses and governments around the world need to reignite the spark of trade to fuel economic growth. trade policy and where it’s heading. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

As care providers make this shift, a dramatic change in operational and management systems will need to happen. This change will help hospitals identify and reduce errors and design new, innovative care models. Hospitals and clinics must reinvent how patient care is delivered — and they must do it as a team.

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