Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Perhaps the HealthCare.gov gang that couldn’t code straight had never heard this software mantra. Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. “Many eyes, shallow bugs.” One can’t be sure. Unfortunately, that’s the wrong question.

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Software System Project Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

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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IPO Innovation Price Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Google’s strategy to date has been to build great consumer software, then extend these popular applications to enterprises with additional features, often at a fraction of the cost of competitors. Some emphasize the importance of sticking to innovations adjacent to a firm’s core business. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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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. 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

OCTOBER 1, 2013

By providing software and counseling, the exchanges will help consumers make informed comparisons among these offerings. In addition, the Affordable Care Act has set in motion a large number of pilot programs, experiments, and demonstration projects involving new methods of paying for care and organizing providers.

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Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

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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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. You can see them most evenings at Noisebridge (pictured below) — a collective space for learning and doing projects together whose members'' main guiding principle is to "be excellent to each other.".

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

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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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. This Emergency Department-Clinical Engineering Learning Laboratory (ED-CELL) team comprises physicians, nurses, other health professionals, systems engineers, scientists, informaticians, IT personnel, and project managers.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. “We want to make it approachable for any organization, including smaller challenges and projects that incorporate a variety of approaches.”

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Education Software Skills Engineering 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Our cloud-based software platform captures clinical and financial performance data in near real time from more than 65,000 medical providers across the U.S. As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. We can peer into our network and get an up-close view of the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. A narrow slice of the respondents (7%) with Big Data initiatives in 2012 invested at least $500 million each on Big Data software, hardware, data scientists, consultants and other related expenses. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

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ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. During the final year, they added three paths to gather a last round of data: 1) The CEO and directors assigned a year-long CEO-level project to each of the three finalists.

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CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Both have signed on with Prism Skylabs , a software company, to map in-store customer behavior. “I don’t think we’re in a place in the industry right now where we can invest 12, 18 months in a long [research] project because the technology will have changed by then,” he explained.

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Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be. Here’s how we did it.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

And there are many in the blockchain community who feel that ICOs are a long-awaited solution for non-profit foundations that want to build open-source software to raise capital. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013).

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

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.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Toward the end of 2014, Google researchers unveiled a new project that uses neural networks and deep learning to identify multiple elements of a scene without human assistance. Its software “learned” how to think by processing vast quantities of data. Innovation Internet'

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Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects. IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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