Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Art Petty of About Money Management and Leadership provided Reinventing the Organization and Leadership for a Digital Era. Art writes, “The emerging digital and technology-driven world demands that we rethink everything about how we manage, lead, structure and run our organizations. Let’s Get Started.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Then we got talking about the odometer on my Nissan Pathfinder: Is a car that can go 300,000 miles a case of over-engineering or TQM excellence? If you listen to 50 consecutive business podcasts, as we did, everything starts to look like a business case study. They crave creative, adaptive, innovative thinking.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Former government official and management expert Kristen Cox teamed up with business consultant Yishai Ashlag in the book Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter. Instead, he designed the ideal electric car that could compete with and even outperform combustion engines. Why is that?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

It is, therefore, one of the most innovative marketing tools at your company’s disposal, so video should certainly be incorporated into your firm’s marketing strategy. The informative, well-written articles will boost confidence and trust in your brand, while increasing your visibility in the search engine result pages.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 16, 2017

After graduating from the Deming Scholars program at Fordham University he worked for GE Aircraft Engines. When GE decided to sell off the units providing engine and airframe accessory services, Kevin participated in a management buyout of the company that is now part of Triumph Accessory Services. quote: 81m 30s).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

Detailed with more than two dozen case studies, Brand Relevance lays out the four key tasks required to attain brand relevance: Finding New Concepts. Defining and Managing the Category or Subcategory. Brand Relevance provides the tools companies need to generate innovative offerings that can create long-term financial success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. A forward-thinking plant manager modified the Deming Philosophy to create something called “The Livonia Philosophy.”. There were still posters in the hallway glass cases celebrating the new approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

I recently spoke to a group of Silicon Valley HR leaders and this question came up, along with the related matter of how to do knowledge management better. They asked how we do knowledge management at frog design, since we have studios spread all over the world and work in a diverse range of industries. Formal/Historical Methods.

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Curious Cat

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you would limit yourself to paying attention to 5 thinkers to advance your understanding of managing organizations Ackoff should be one of them. Of course, many managers don’t even try to learn from 5 leading management thinkers to do their jobs better over their career.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

After all, everyone is “seeing the same data, interacting with the same people, and having the same conversations, so it’s no surprise that the ideas coming out feel as though they’ve all been done before,” says Scott Anthony, the managing partner of Innosight and the author of The First Mile. Bring in different points of view.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

The secret isn't rocket science — it's a full-time commitment to the art and science of project management. PMI's Pulse of the Profession Survey shows that more than two-thirds of project-based organizations have created a dedicated Project Management Office to lead such efforts. Leveraging Executive Sponsors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

The secret isn't rocket science — it's a full-time commitment to the art and science of project management. PMI's Pulse of the Profession Survey shows that more than two-thirds of project-based organizations have created a dedicated Project Management Office to lead such efforts. Leveraging Executive Sponsors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I wrote a case study about this for my book and it ended up on the cutting room floor, but it's still a fascinating story and one that has valuable lessons for today. As it turns out, even Honda's larger bikes were not robust enough for American riders and they started having engine failures. continued to hit the streets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Mornings consisted of lectures and case studies in a traditional classroom in the Stanford Business School; this was the “clean models” part of the program.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. Engineer organizational breakdowns.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

It is often costly to career momentum and earnings as much as it is a boon," says Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management and coauthor of " Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want." While the former might require approval from your manager, the latter often doesn't.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 61

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Capitalism might be the greatest engine of prosperity and progress ever devised, but in recent years, individuals and communities have grown increasingly disgruntled with the implicit contract that governs the rights and responsibilities of business. How do we stretch management timeframes and perspectives?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. The market won’t scale if companies can’t help consumers tie these things together and manage them as a unit easily. based home improvement retailer, has hence developed and is marketing a full home management system, called IRIS.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” per year for 5 year followings its introduction, based on a case study that I wrote. Leading Teams.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. The market won’t scale if companies can’t help consumers tie these things together and manage them as a unit easily. based home improvement retailer, has hence developed and is marketing a full home management system, called IRIS.

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Industry Retail Software Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers. There is not a "thing" to manage. Is a business built on volunteers manageable? We want innovation, but without experiencing failure.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

Yet, all too often, our organizations end up being less innovative than the people within them. The dozens of in-the-trenches innovators who responded to our Innovating Innovation Challenge embody the first assertion and are working relentlessly and fearlessly to overturn the second. Making Innovation part of the DNA.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October. Fail Forward.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. This is where numerous ventures fail. The latter is the domain of venture capital, but the former is what we need to build the foundation for Capitalism 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The United States is home to some of the key pioneers of Technik whose innovations help society adapt to the future. Those companies' hardware and software platforms are the foundation for almost endless innovation by diverse users worldwide, a contribution no Europeans or Asians can match. But business schools can and should do more.

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