Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Women on Business

AUGUST 16, 2012

Like any young business these areas will take time to mature and determine which lines will drive consistent revenue. Companies like Groupon have the ability to use their business model to make a positive impact on our communities, something Groupon is passionate about.

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Project Incentives Retail Business Model 209

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

But because most providers’ business models still depend on fee-for-service revenues, reducing volume (and increasing value) cuts into short-term profits. How, then, are innovative providers redesigning care so that, despite financial pain in the short term, they achieve long-range success? Experience in managing risk.

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Health Care Business Model Mayo Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

How important is innovation these days? mentions per company (Nike, recently named the world''s most innovative company, topped the list with 239 mentions). But just talking about innovation doesn''t mean a company is really serious about it, or is approaching it in a way that has as a reasonable chance of success.

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Innovation Budgeting Commitment Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

How important is innovation these days? mentions per company (Nike, recently named the world’s most innovative company, topped the list with 239 mentions). But just talking about innovation doesn’t mean a company is really serious about it, or is approaching it in a way that has as a reasonable chance of success.

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Innovation Budgeting Commitment Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. What does it take to innovate at scale?

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Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear. They won't let me take risks."

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Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Cameron hadn’t realized how difficult it would be for local governments to change the way they did business, even when they had the best of intentions. “Good idea.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N.

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Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? Trouble is, it’s hard to think of any business challenge where real pro­gress has been harder to come by. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. After all, diverting investments away from core hospital budgets might be unpopular across an organization that is the largest private employer in the region. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Given the role analytics has played in reshaping industries and rewarding innovative adopters over the last two decades, it is surprising how frequently we are asked: “Does this analytics stuff really work?” We only included companies that had implemented a major analytics initiative with an innovation or similar agenda.

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CFO Competitive Advantage Budgeting CEO 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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Licensing Newsletter Creativity Comparison 29

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

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Incentives Licensing Real Estate Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Today’s climate challenge is so far beyond our collective experience that it demands a radically different kind of engagement from senior leadership teams in the private sector. The threats that climate change poses to business, markets, and, indeed, capitalism are peculiarly hard for most top teams to spot, let alone act on.

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Execution White Paper Shaw Price 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 8, 2008

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Licensing Reference Entrepreneur Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

When the CEO assigns ownership of analytics, that executive will command bigger budgets and more time on the board agenda and will oversee a powerful new pool of resources. Start by talking openly about the journey and the inherent sense of vulnerability executives are bound to feel as the business model changes.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The New York Public Library is one of the largest public libraries in the world, with 18 million visitors yearly, a budget of nearly $300m, and 93 branches. Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve.

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Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In fast-paced fields, staying up-to-date with the latest trends and skills lies at the core of their business model, and ensuring you bring relevant skills to the company can help you secure your position in the field. Then it might be important for you to prioritize leadership development while setting career goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

At a time when the customer end of the business model seems to be getting all the attention, executives must not neglect the equally important operations back end. As incumbent businesses are increasingly threatened by digitally oriented disruptors, the operating model is as important as the innovative design of the business model.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

While there are many aspects to informed management some of the basics that must be present are: In depth financial planning and controls : this usually requires someone with a graduate degree in business, such as an MBA or equivalent and is proficient in: Business modeling. leadership skills. Capital raising strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability.

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CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Experiment aggressively, and challenge business model assumptions. ” Gartner finds that, today, 83% of enterprise marketing organizations have an innovation budget that reflects, on average, 9.4% These CMOs seek to create pipelines of innovations that they test and validate in rapid succession. The results?

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Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Carter Professor of Business Administration, is Chair of the General Management Program, a unique program designed to accelerate leadership growth of cross-functional executives focused on driving change across their organization. Sunil Gupta, the Edward W.

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Education Execution Wireless Content 8