Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

Take a look at the new book by this author, Quiet Influence: The Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference (Berrett-Koehler, April 2013); I find myself pumping my fist and saying “yes!” These scientists and engineers develop innovative products and breakthrough ideas. The atmosphere was so calm.

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Influence Executive Coaching Fashion Energy 262

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

companies more than $31 billion each year in lost productive time. Overwhelm and the resignation and panic it generates are great wastes and very effective killers of productivity and profitability. Eliminate these modern wastes – silent killers of productivity and profitability – and transform your organization!

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 71

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

By blindly creating and/or tolerating working conditions in which people do not and often cannot effectively listen to one another, we kill productivity and profitability. You just finished reading 6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 3 of 7 ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. The Incredibles, Bird and Walker’s first project at Pixar, was a homerun. Catmull understands that creativity and innovation are maximized in a community with a rich marketplace of ideas.

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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. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. In the U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Indeed, data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published last year showed that the price of solar fell by an incredible 82% between 2010 and 2019, with these advances drastically improving the energy gained from each panel, with the energy cost now extremely competitive against all other forms of electricity production.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. They not only kill productivity and profitability, they also kill the generative moods of ambition, confidence, and trust that are essential to building consistent competitive advantage.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

This approach is something we often read about in terms of innovation – of how we can develop a new product or service offering by running various experiments or pilot projects to test the viability of these new ideas. What Have You Learned Going Forward?

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Leadership How To Stage-Gate Learning-by-Doing 278

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

In my case, my most powerful ideas – ideas that enabled me to lead innovative programs of worldwide scope when I was at Intel – have come from conversations with people in other organizations. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines. Have fun! *. David Grossman.

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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.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation. Negotiate the expectations up front.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

You don’t cut prices by 90% through marginal improvements in existing products. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

They’re internal actions that build trust, earn respect, and create a team of inspired people – inspired to be productive and do their best… Great leaders are value providers, not order givers. Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Outcome, not task.

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360-Degree Feedback Leadership Open-book Customer Loyalty 75

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. Now, more than ever, we need strategies for being productive. Our most satisfying work comes about when we’re playing offense, working on projects that we ourselves initiate. But where do we start? Own your time.

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Productivity Products Tips Resistance 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

words for 2013 – I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. One innovation helping me significantly is Dragon Dictate for Mac. I’m increasing my speed of writing productivity by more than 50%, while still maintaining perfect thought flow and expression. Ever-mindful, laser-focused, bright light.

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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. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR''s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We''ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Welcome to HBR’s new Insight Center: Beyond the Breakthrough: Executing on Innovation. We’ll take a close look at the execution aspects of innovation. Ethan Mollick of Wharton will reveal the overlooked value of individual middle managers in executing on innovation. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Hamel Middle Management 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

You don’t cut prices by 90% through marginal improvements in existing products. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Companies in commoditizing industries tend to follow one of two strategies: either they try to find new services to offer around the product or they compete on price. And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Lets look at a company in an industry whose product is almost synonymous with the word commodity: cement.

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Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy. Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development.

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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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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

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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Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions. There is no paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

But there is another, equally compelling reason why unicorns are dying: failure to innovate when competitors catch up. But now we’re seeing that in the face of strong competition, some of these very same unicorns are struggling not only to keep up, but to keep innovating beyond their first breakthrough.

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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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Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., In an HBR article , two management school professors found that an age-integrated assembly line resulted in improved productivity, reduced absenteeism, and fewer defects. Nesterly , an intergenerational homesharing service, is one of these promising innovations.

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Education Absenteeism Efficiency Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? The first wave of social business was all about employee collaboration, giving rise to products like Yammer, Jive, and Salesforce Chatter. No doubt there has been incredible business uptake of social media over the last few years.

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Media ROI Corporate Accountability Guidelines 13

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. Mark is also the Vice President of Improvement & Innovation Services for the software company KaiNexus. This lack of understanding isn’t the fault of these individuals.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

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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Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

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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