HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Microsoft Under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft has embraced a culture of inclusivity, innovation, and continuous learning. Netflix Known for its culture of freedom and responsibility, Netflix emphasizes trust in its employees and offers a unique approach to leadership and decision-making.

Examples 97

Examples Company Diversity Team Building 97

Leading Blog

AUGUST 18, 2017

It’s scheduled white space—a commitment you make to yourself simply because your leadership begins with who you are—not what you do. Joey Reiman, CEO of the consulting firm BrightHouse, credits their success to their “longer, incubation pace.” So let’s look at four things solitude will do for you. Clarity is about what is true.

Press Release 157

Press Release Incubator Library Creativity 157

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. To get this broad exposure, managers were given a variety of functional roles, eventually assuming leadership for a small business unit. In fact, for many chief executives I've recently worked with, the first real GM job that they had was CEO!

Management 13

Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Inclusive growth has become the economic development mantra for both Indian politicians and CEOs in recent months. Recently, for instance, DuPont India's entire Indian leadership completed an immersion program in hinterland India with guidance from MART , a rural marketing consultancy.

Business Model 15

Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 15

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

In a post, we shared how the Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. An excerpt from chapter two, Why Character-Based Leadership, authored by Chery Gegelman , appears here.

Crisis 150

Crisis Books Ethics Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This should go without saying, but it’s vitally important to develop relationships with the CEO, business unit leaders, and other key executives to understand the company’s strategy, so that the innovation approach and projects you pursue align with overall corporate goals. Those are related, but distinctly different, tasks.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

So, before you sign on, you need to develop as deep an understanding as possible of what makes this person tick and what it will be like to work for them. Ask about opportunities for training and development. “Joe,” the CEO of the new company, asked Brad to come on as chief strategy officer. And what gets in the way?’”

How To 8

How To Incubator Due Diligence Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about. Alignment can take a while. Patience is a rarity. The vision thing.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. DAVID: Yeah. What did they come up with?

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

CEO Ginni Rometty is leading the company into new areas, betting big on its Watson software and cloud computing. Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. 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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

When we recently put these questions to a CEO, he said he guessed his organization was currently allocating 5% of their spending to innovation (new products and services), but added that they really should be investing 10-15%. This usually requires incubation and protection of a new venture in an autonomous unit.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2018

chairman and CEO David A. “Our company appreciates the progress we have seen under Prime Minister Abe’s leadership.” In some cases, premiums will maintain prices of newly developed drugs. . “Japanese leaders recognize the importance of encouraging medical innovation,” Eli Lilly and Co.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Health Care Industry Content 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

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, October 2016. Developers do not program cognitive systems in a conventional sense, but rather a corpus of information is created for a specific domain set. Machine Learning Engineer: The objective of ML/DL is to develop a predictive engine for a specific use case.

Positioning 150

Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. He plans to make significant R&D investments, hire lots of sales people to approach enterprise customers, expand in emerging markets and develop entirely new product categories.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8