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. Pixar could see these guys were driven to make great films but knew they didn’t have access to the kind of technology Pixar had so they went after them. When Pixar focuses on making great films, profit follows.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I called the project 15 Coaches. Given the overwhelmingly positive response I have received for this project, I have decided to expand the program from 15 to 100 coaches! The project is now called 100 Coaches and I am currently working on the selection of the next 75 coaches! I wish I could mentor everyone who applied.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Shocking headlines emerged in 2013 when households across the UK proclaimed broadband access to be more important to them than water. For some it was regarded as an absurd statement, but new research from the University of Birmingham argues that free internet access should be regarded as a fundamental human right. A considerable challenge.

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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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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. 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. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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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. Will I see you there?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Too often, startup CEOs cling to old business models as their reason for success, when in reality it was their innovation and risk-taking that helped them succeed in the first place. As digital technology disrupted Kodak’s business, they held onto the film business as everyone was going digital. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

institutionalized mistrust, resignation, or resentment), technology addiction (which can make it difficult for some people to actually talk to others), or a simple incompetence for speaking and listening. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This lack of listening can be the result of degenerative moods (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." 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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Use technology to identify and address barriers. And equipment is tagged with discrete RFID stickers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Suppressing Innovation. Not Listening.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." 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 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

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. How Google manages.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Perhaps drawing on a national affinity for design, Italcementi has rediscovered cement as the raw material of architectural beauty, transforming a drab, gray powder into a technologically advanced and aesthetically sophisticated building material.

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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. That vestiges of old technologies linger on, capable of being resurrected into viable businesses again, doesn’t seem strange to us. cut of sales.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used. 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

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Emerging problems are flagged sooner; project leaders present their testing protocols and outcomes; and updated expectations are clearly communicated throughout the enterprise. Crap rolls downhill. Look deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In my research on innovators, I like to draw the distinction between “path finders” and “path creators.” He is the originator of the “social streets” movement now spreading across Italy, so the innovation he created literally involves a path: the street in which he and his family live in Bologna.

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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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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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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. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

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. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. Creating a professional virtual network that would be high quality, participatory, and trusted required some trial and error both in terms of the content and technology.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The VC industry has failed to innovate. The future has really never looked better!

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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. This is the reality of artists, musicians, community organizers, many of them non-techies, working side by side with techies to hack not so much technologies but ways of working, living, creating, and organizing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

While we''re all familiar with the decline of Research in Motion, this oral history contains first-hand accounts of RIM''s glory days of innovation, followed by inglorious missteps. At most big companies, would-be innovators have to submit their proposals to review boards and then wait months for funding.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising. “I don’t come in every morning and say, “How am I going to innovate today? Decision making Retail Technology' That doesn’t really exist,” he explains.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Left to voluntary action, system-wide reforms, such as the adoption of health information technology and new provider payment practices that lower costs and increase quality of care, will proceed with glacial slowness. These innovations include bundled payments and accountable care organizations. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Toward the end of last year, one of the first platishers, Say Media, announced it was selling off its publishing properties to focus on its technological platform. But these differences are largely cultural.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013.

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