CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Brainstorming by ideaWallets – We all have issues with cognitive bias and our brains get very guarded and have a difficult time changing. By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it. By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it.

Executive Coaching 79

Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Brainstorming by ideaWallets – We all have issues with cognitive bias and our brains get very guarded and have a difficult time changing. By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it. By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it.

Executive Coaching 68

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For example, when a top architect at architectural/engineering firm HGA was assigned to help make a pitch for a synagogue project, she immediately started to study Jewish culture — although she was Catholic — starting with Judaism for Dummies and moving on to more intellectual books.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Engineering Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Here are four things leaders can do.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. These goals include aiming for Yelp’s sales teams to match the composition of the diverse communities in which they operate, increasing its proportion of female engineers, and making its culture more inclusive. The numbers were grim.

Diversity 8

Diversity Engineering Committee Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

The VP of R&D had blundered in setting up the team to develop a radically new printer-scanner: He failed to define clear project goals, and he let two senior mechanical engineers each believe that they were going to lead the mechanical design of the product. From Day 1, the two tussled over their divergent visions.

Management 16

Management Engineering Price Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

The three groups came together and brainstormed new ways to automate the analysis of large volumes of data, much of it real-time in nature. Corporations and small businesses use new technology and strong leadership to make their operations more successful, why not cities ?

Software 8

Software Technology Innovation System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

One solution is to use a flexible, fluid team structure that consists of three tiers : a core, an operational level, and an outer network. The chipmaker Xilinx, for instance, has reported an increase in engineer productivity by around 25% thanks to social media tools that encourage and enable employee collaborative activities.

Team 9

Team Succession Hypercompetition Teamwork 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Now picture this group engaged in brainstorming, negotiations, or expansion planning. Also, today, 30% of new hires are non-Japanese, and 50% of new engineers are non-Japanese. What do you do? Hire interpreters? My company, Rakuten, Inc. That''s not a cost-effective strategy.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

In one study, we found discrepancies in connections between headquarters and affiliates, and poor collaboration between engineering and sales. This insight produced the business case for holding brainstorming sessions to build connections and improve communication.

Agility 15

Agility Team How To Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Who should lead our transformation?

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the way we naturally gesture as we casually chat with colleagues, deliver presentations, or brainstorm with engineers. The initial wave of development for the IoT has focused on reducing the need for mental resources, especially in industrial and operational processes, that could otherwise be automated with new smart devices.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing Software 9

HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve had the opportunity to interview Charlie Ackerman who provided some illuminating insights on how Bosch is equipped to drive change in its workforce, and what lessons have been reinforced over the past year to help the innovation engine become future ready. .

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Education Resources Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. It can be as simple as challenging teams to brainstorm uses for an oddly shaped object. Hackathons are no longer just for coders.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

Efficient, uniform operations are table stakes in the modern business environment. Having perfectly designed and executed operations is an impossible goal, but it is one we must continue to strive for. It’s hard enough to keep operations efficient inside a company, but new regulations can present special challenges.

Operations 8

Operations Constraint System Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The impact that had on the operations and culture was significant. And then we brainstorm. When the industry was purporting that mobile was best served as a content engine and mobile shopping would take years to take off, we dove-in head first. How have you addressed this since joining Sephora? What haven’t you solved?

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

For all of the talk about “brands becoming publishers,” most marketers are simply tacking on publishing functions to their existing operations without implementing any new processes or practices. Prototype ideas and formats instead of reverse-engineering them. That reason is operational excellence.

Content 8

Content Marketing Audience Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Instead of brainstorming new "products," the group instead collectively chose to imagine future "offers." According to its search engine, however, the world''s largest bookseller doesn''t have a single "offers innovation" title. That was a distinction with an operational and organizational difference. Language matters.

Ulrich 9

Ulrich Kaizen Innovation Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

Akin to an R&D facility for a large restaurant chain or fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brand, their lab hosted a small team of chefs, and occasionally other professionals, such as food scientists, designers, or engineers, in a mixed kitchen and office space.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Your current business is the performance engine. It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. For a long time, I have been troubled to see how often organizations fail to invest wisely in their futures while instead placing dominant emphasis on the present. To be sure, the present is vitally important.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

N2Build has a large network of R&D alliances: it collaborates with researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and INEGI (National Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management), the eminent Portuguese research institute. The event was a turning point for INEGI.

Company 8

Company Construction Seminar Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

These hackers also modified Yahoo’s search engine results to further their own criminal goals. Do not wait until you are in the midst of a cyberattack to brainstorm how, what, and when to communicate with your board, your shareholders, and your clients. Plan this ahead of time.

Compliance 9

Compliance Tactics Diversity CIO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. The innovation and operations teams must work together and negotiate the use of these resources.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8