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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

In this environment, we must re-examine the basic assumptions that drove our business success in the past, starting with the most basic question of all: why do we even come together in institutions such as firms? Perhaps a new rationale will be required to drive institutional success in the future.

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What Government Should Relearn from Business (And It's Not Efficiency)

Harvard Business Review

When, eventually, sequestration has passed and Washington and its watchers have moved on to the next big debate, alongside all the recriminations there will be this: the familiar calls for government to demonstrate more of the effectiveness that we see in the most successful private sector companies. The clamor won't be altogether misguided.

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How CIOs Can Keep In Step With CEOs

Harvard Business Review

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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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

However, time and time again, statistics show that CIO and C-suite alignment drives financial success. Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N.

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How I Brought Ashley Stewart Back from Bankruptcy

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Ashley Stewart was on the brink of bankruptcy — its second in a little over three years. To give her a chance, I resigned from the board to become CEO in August 2013. Kindness : Despite our financial plight, we reintroduced a generous local charitable giving program during the 2013 holiday season.