Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Brad Robertson is the founder and CEO of Polyient Labs , a Phoenix-based blockchain incubator with offices in Denver and San Diego. Prior to launching Polyient, Robertson was the CEO and founder of CX, an early innovator in cloud computing. About the Author.

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Content Decentralization Advertising Incubator 60

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. They are the ones who have earned the trust, loyalty and respect of their co-workers. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. Incubate new businesses and models. Go to new places.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. “Maybe what you think is the best idea you’ve ever had actually isn’t.” ” 2.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation. Second, demystify the process.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. Incubate new businesses and models. Go to new places.

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Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Innovation, in word and deed, has been a golden calf of the business world for decades. Now the concept has taken on a second life in the social sector, where a tougher than tough economy has made "innovation" the theoretical one-size fits all answer for every challenge, with little discussion about the associated costs and challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. What Can CEOs Do? treating suppliers as partners). Educate and Motivate Others.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

Who would be CEO? The authors believe that such ‘territory setting’ is not only popular with team members, but beneficial to the business itself. Assigning roles. Another study , from researchers at Imperial College London, explores how the distribution of roles among the founding team is undertaken. Who would be CFO or COO?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Google Known for its innovative and relaxed work environment, Google encourages creativity, and collaboration, and provides various perks for employees, such as flexible schedules and on-site facilities. Microsoft Under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft has embraced a culture of inclusivity, innovation, and continuous learning.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Likewise, Nebia — a start-up water-efficient showerhead maker in San Francisco — recently scored investment money from Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s family foundation. By contrast, the emergence of new cloud-enabled, incubator-supported manufacturing startups could widen the aperture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Similar fates often befall innovations within large companies. You must do that in the face of vast forces arrayed against innovation within an established organization, which include inertia, resistance to change, fear of failure, financial disincentives, and the tendency of people and organizations to favor what has worked in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Inclusive growth has become the economic development mantra for both Indian politicians and CEOs in recent months. We then headed to Mumbai, India's financial capital, where we participated in a panel discussion hosted by Asia Society entitled "INDOvations: Driving Global Innovations from Emerging Markets."

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Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Many of these entrepreneurial lessons have been codified in books, the new bibles for innovation — not just for entrepreneurs but also for managers looking to create new and innovative innovation businesses inside existing corporations. In advertising, creative teams are being displaced by open innovation platforms.

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Company Advertising Business Model Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

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 of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories. Nevertheless, we steadfastly supported the venture.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

And for society and democracy at large, the workplace might just be the one institution that incubates a more constructive way of bringing people together. And a growing number of CEOs and chairs are taking positions on political and social issues. Employees are able to internalize these values more deeply as a result. and worldwide.

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Diversity Politics Survey Incubator 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. In fact, for many chief executives I've recently worked with, the first real GM job that they had was CEO! Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be. Case studies on companies that have failed to invest in IT innovations, and the resulting business impacts--usually disastrous--abound.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

billion, is one more in a line of twenty-somethings and even pre-twenty-somethings whose technology innovations have made them a fortune. New business incubators are becoming increasingly common in the U.S. David Karp, who sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 We''ve seen this before. They feel it is inextricably linked to business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In fact, when the iPhone came out, the company’s CEO Steve Ballmer dismissed it , saying, “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. ” Other attempts to adapt to Apple’s innovations, such as the Zune mp3 player, didn’t gain traction either.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

But with a sense that a new dialogue may be happening between this remarkable culture and the West, about a dozen CEOs from the U.S., The recent “Startup Weekends” have attracted nearly 2,000 kids in Tehran looking to learn entrepreneurship and innovate. million iPhones in the country.

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Travel Incubator Bottom-up Education 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

About 20% of the CEOs had to be changed twice. LCPs bring firm-wide insights to activities like vetting or hiring CHROs within portfolio companies, encouraging leadership and organizational innovation in portfolio companies, and sharing best practices and learnings across portfolio companies.

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Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters 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. The most successful innovative companies buy startups and other private companies to help transform themselves. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand! Palmisano has an engaging manner and keen sense of humor. It is not about you.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. When the company had 60 or 70 people working at its Palo Alto headquarters, founder and then CEO David Kelley (now Chairman) did a masterful job of orchestrating the “Monday morning,” a weekly 9:00 am gathering.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

If anything, it made them more committed to finding creative ways to drive innovation and growth. Yet, CEO Sushil Mungekar and his team persevere. It featured a small team of energetic leaders with audacious dreams about substantially growing their business unit. The challenges facing companies in India didn't faze this group.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

As innovation consultant Pete Maulik told me, “It’s time to switch from here they come to this is how we’re going to win.” ” Here are three big companies using innovative approaches to make this crucial connection. That’s an enormous mistake. MassMutual Walks the Talk by Talking.

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