Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". It's the business model, stupid. It created a working prototype of a digital camera in 1975. photography.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But even a business model innovator like Zipcar must eventually respond to a changing world. A stark reality recently crept up on Zipcar: It had designed its entire customer experience as a desktop-and-laptop experience, so it didn’t have a way to sign up, service, and help members manage their memberships from their phones.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

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). Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. Paul Garbett for HBR.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Our analysis suggests that big companies should focus instead on what we call "innovation at scale" — that is, achieving repeatable and sustainable organic growth from new products, services and business models that build on the core business. Stay "open" longer. Structure to execute. Hand-pick talent.

Innovation 9

Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).

CEO 12

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Record so far: Little more than a year after announcing an investment of $1 billion to launch the Watson Group, IBM established the Watson Health business unit in September 2015. IBM leadership must have the courage to quickly modify or even eliminate the ones that aren’t working according to plan.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Trouble is, it’s hard to think of any business challenge where real pro­gress has been harder to come by. In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And it’s not just your company. What’s the problem?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8