Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Innovation has always been what makes good businesses great. And innovation does not happen without change and risk. When presenting a new process, task or policy, also present how this change will solve problems. This past February Yahoo!’s

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

While there’s no process or clear series of steps I can point to, one thing that I know is a key factor behind my success and attaining recognitions like those above is the fact that I’m persistent. What Have You Learned Going Forward?

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 1, 2015

When I think about my time at Brown, I think about one of my housemates working on a computer science project, describing the mystery of the deep web and the power of torrent — and blowing my mind in the process. Or when yet another sat down next to me and asked me to define religion, prompted by a class project on religious law.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 1, 2015

When I think about my time at Brown, I think about one of my housemates working on a computer science project, describing the mystery of the deep web and the power of torrent — and blowing my mind in the process. Or when yet another sat down next to me and asked me to define religion, prompted by a class project on religious law.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 2, 2014

One investment banker is still at the bank, but is now working exclusively on projects that make the world a better place. Many years ago, one of my coaches, Richard Leider, taught me that reflecting on life and purpose is a process that should start when we’re young – and never stop. Innovation Leadership'

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Both revolutions were about the potential of new experimentation tools, processes, and cultures and what companies should do to unlock their power. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. Be a role model.

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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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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The objectives for this project include; Have Fun! Get to know others Develop a process to strengthen communication within and between departments Develop a process to strengthen collaboration (information sharing, best practices) within and between departments. Processing Continuum Like you, not like you?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Rather than attempting to replace people, our IT systems, processes, and products should be aimed at enabling the human cooperation, collaboration, and innovation that are essential to growing a business. But a new generation of coordination tools is available, and the innovators of the world are using them. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

They are the ones who design or tolerate the practices, processes, structures, moods, and measures that create it. We at the Human Potential Project are not naïve dreamers who think the transition to this new way of working will happen on its own or overnight. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

The process works. words for 2013 – I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. Writing has provided me with both purpose and process, both discipline and drive, both achievement and attraction, both success and fulfillment, and both lessons and legacy. Her word this year is “open.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. Suppressing Innovation.

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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. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Great leaders are wide open to new ideas and innovation. One of the tragedies of leadership is that the (overrated) 360-degree feedback process, usually only goes 180 degrees. Outcome, not task. Outcome, not results.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TEST : pilot test new ideas and projects and welcome mistakes and failures that show up. We can choose to look at failures, at least in our daily lives, as life practice, learning, a pilot project, as experimentation, or even a legitimate part of any innovation process. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The process is not simply one of a business matching its product to a customer’s psychological needs. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Project Management Best Practice 1 – The Project Management Intensity Continuum. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. The Value of Human Needs.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. Lean organizations engage every employee, regardless of the letters after their names, in improvement through Plan Do Study Adjust cycles and a Kaizen improvement process.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

The one certain outcome of these two strategies, of course, is to accelerate the commoditization process itself. And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Italcementi has achieved this through a co-innovation process with great contemporary architects.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. So how does it work?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

It is one of the first products to launch out of Google X, the company’s research lab that aspires to “moonshot” innovations, and which is also developing a self-driving car. Some emphasize the importance of sticking to innovations adjacent to a firm’s core business. When Innovation Is Strategy. How Boards Can Innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? In 2013, there was already executive commitment and discussion around turning internal social media projects into strategic imperatives owned by lines of business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Among the effects: 703 fewer new and competing research projects. noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. The small-scale project would test a possible solution in a low-risk way, in 100 days or less, and without the pressure of having to be right.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A 2013 article in The Ochsner Journal, titled “Just Culture: A Foundation for Balanced Accountability and Patient Safety,” concluded that “a fair and just culture improves patient safety by empowering employees to proactively monitor the workplace and participate in safety efforts in the work environment.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

GE also went to work on transforming internal processes like sales and supplier relationships. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. Digital transformation is an ongoing process of changing the way you do business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015.

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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

MAY 16, 2017

Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. She quantified the growth she generated and included one of her innovations that generated much of that growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The early campaigns on Kickstarter ran a long gauntlet — creators had to budget days into their campaign to cover the Kickstarter approval process. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects. Consider, too, the practice of sponsored content.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. Innovating away from past exclusion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

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