Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2015

The “them” the leader was referring to were zombie projects: the nefarious enemies of well-intentioned innovation efforts around the globe. Every year scores of people spent months reviewing recent performance and sanity-checking future projections. Every project went under the proverbial microscope.

Project 8

Project How To Innovation Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis began to work on the issue as a side project. Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. It lit a fire under her. The prize?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In late 2014, he joined forces with two other leaders in the space, Bryan Mazlish and Jeffrey Brewer, to form a technology startup called Bigfoot Biomedical. Citizen hackers are enabled by technology but they are motivated by passion. Yet, when Lane took promising ideas to management at his company, they were uninterested.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Business Model System 8

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. Innovation Strategy Technology'

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Economic Outlook for 2014 and Beyond, January 13, 2014, About.com), and our own research , “CEO Briefing 2014 –The Global Agenda: Competing in a Digital World,” found widespread optimism in the C-Suite about companies’ growth prospects.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But it wasn’t until recent advances in the technology that people really began to take notice. In 2014 alone, the 3D-printing industry grew by 35.2%. And although the industry saw a slight slowdown in 2015, innovations with 3D-printed products are visible among a wide range of industries. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Technology Software Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

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. Both Gmail and AdSense, the company’s ad software for publishers, started out as 20% time projects. How Google innovates.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

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. This is the endgame of social business.

Media 13

Media ROI Corporate Accountability Guidelines 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

They’ve allowed the “You’re just lucky to have a job” post-recession mindset to linger and hamper innovation, and they’ve continued to marginalize anything related to flexibility as a “mother’s issue.”

Project 8

Project Participative Goal ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” In other words, today’s innovators don’t “go global”—globality is baked into their origins. Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. from 2012 to 2014. For Silicon Valley, however, that proportion rises to 45%.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

percent of the 2014 global medical device market—behind the U.S. One project is a remote intensive-care patient management program. This also includes innovative systems for patient-requested care, promotion of self-medication, cloud-based record availability, and remote monitoring of patients in their homes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry Pharmaceuticals Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

We examined their automation potential today — what’s possible by adapting demonstrated technologies — as well as the potential similarities and differences in how automation could take hold in the future. trillion in wages are associated with activities that are automatable with current technology. Insight Center.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. This plot suggests that the first quarter is pretty mundane; except for 2014, performance is tightly contained in a 91 to 93 band.

Tacit Knowledge 10

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They had lots of these projects. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Apple has autonomous car projects and AI-based speakers in the works.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Here are six ways to change that.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem? They let evidence and facts drive innovation processes.

Price 11

Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. Not so fast.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues.

Technology 8

Technology Video Conference Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. So in early 2014, Jonathan Glick coined the ungainly word “ platisher ” to describe hybrids of digital media platforms and publishers. For an example, look at Medium , a platisher that raised $25 million in 2014.

Business Model 8

Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

University Hospital , which opened in December 2014. We attribute much of our success to making patients and frontline health care professionals the true architects of the project. The project came in substantially under budget, and we used the savings to make the hospital even better. And that saved everyone time and money.

Health Care 8

Health Care Construction Planning Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They are dealing with the environment; successfully making the shift from an infrastructure state to a consumer society; becoming an innovative economy; having a positive impact on the world order; and finally, and perhaps most importantly, making the transition from Xi Jinping’s “Seven No’s” to a more sustainable political model.

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Consider the more than $44 billion projected by Gartner to be spent on big data in 2014. In his seminal essay, “ Why Software is Eating the World ,” Marc Andreessen pointed out that for each new technology wave, the money eventually shifts to software. Information & technology IT management Technology'

Maturity 9

Maturity Software Information Technology Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

These projects can develop your skills and confidence, as well as prove to leaders that you can succeed at the next level. In Spring 2014, she flew to Guatemala to volunteer her user experience and design skills with a social enterprise looking to build an e-commerce platform for its locally and sustainably crafted supplies.

How To 8

How To Document Career Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Congress or the European Union can throw all the regulations they want at banking and other industries, but politicians and bureaucrats are no match for today’s cognitive technologies. The WSJ for example reported as recently as 2014 that the future was “very bright for anyone entering into compliance as a career.”).

Compliance 9

Compliance Drucker Banking Cost 9

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

A Leader’s Insights In “ Joy, Inc – How We Built a Workplace People Love ”, Richard Sheridan, cofounder and CEO of software design firm Menlo Innovations, delineates the practical steps he has taken to create and maintain a corporate culture that makes people “excited to come to work every day.”

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. In 2014, more than 740,000 visitors toured the historic brewery. They can permanently or temporarily showcase marketing campaigns and product innovations.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8