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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. Yet companies continue to invest in skills development only to be disappointed by little or no difference in performance. They want to pay more attention to a long term, rather than short term, view. Decision making style. Requirements for change and variety.

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Emerging-Market Engineers Power Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. Captive R&D Centers.

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

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Turn Your Company into a Customer Platform

Harvard Business Review

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. Even Apple, known for its culture under Steve Jobs that famously resisted allowing customers or outside developers to alter any of its platforms, finally bowed to a growing reality.

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Design Lessons from the Consumer at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. There’s no one-size-fits-all AI solution.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Building Balanced Cultures.