Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Because firms need to strike a delicate balance between protecting secrets and encouraging employees to learn new skills and knowledge. Employees’ incentives to learn on the job are weaker if they cannot use that knowledge later in their careers. They invest less in acquiring knowledge, reducing their skills and innovativeness.

Incentives 12

Incentives Policies Innovation Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

And they watch for and stop the common problem of their team members or other senior leaders pushing pet projects through product development. As an example consider stage-gates, decision points at which time new products are reviewed before moving forward in the development process. Innovation Leadership Product development'

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. Build smart support systems. Lead by example.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. Boeing refers to its global "value webs," an approach that turns managers into systems integrators.

Storytelling 15

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It described the newspapers own request under the Freedom of Information Act for the New York Department of Educations performance ratings of the roughly 12,000 public city school teachers in its system. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

The off-boarding process goes much more smoothly if you already have tools and systems in place to ensure that knowledge is constantly being transferred from experts to successors. ” But you can’t afford to have an employee with a monopoly on company-specific knowledge. . ” Be prepared for the next time.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Storytelling Cooper Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Peer-to-peer learning can be a powerful development tool that breaks through some common barriers to skill-building — and it has other benefits as well. One in three respondents said their organizations don’t even have any systems in place to share learning among employees. Learning to Learn. Erika Andersen. Liane Davey.

How To 11

How To Participative Construction Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Nine of ten physicians surveyed had worked in permanent practice at some point during their careers, while 8% indicated that they had only worked as locum tenens. Developing these could help hospitals and clinics better identify, onboard, and manage highly qualified locum tenens.

Quality 8

Quality Survey Short-term Efficiency 8