Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Innovation success stories are all strikingly similar: a bright idea, supported by a zealot-innovator who sees it through. This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Orica is now codifying the decision logic of the most experienced blasting managers through predictive modeling to serve up personalized recommendations on demand.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They alert us to the risks of eating unhealthy foods, smoking cigarettes, taking prescription drugs, driving cars, using power tools, and performing many other activities. A label may read, for example : “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. The result will be innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells. How do we add value in ways that others do not?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The problem, as I described in my last post , is that six things militate against success in the role: The management team's attention shifts to other priorities. Make the role permanent and incorporate it into overall performance management. Every month the top management team (which represents all functions) reviews the measures.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But innovating for sustainable development is actually quite close to the processes of “traditional” innovation. Unlike the case of the latter, where the benefits of innovation accrue mainly to the company, here the benefits are shared widely, potentially even with competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

after chemicals). In much of the 20 th century, technological innovation produced products that had plenty of room for improvement, opening up opportunities for high-end disruption. After all, technologies don’t dictate how they must be commercialized, managers do. Innovation Strategy' To produce radials, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Once prediction became cheap, innovators reframed driving as a prediction problem. In contrast, the value of film-related chemicals fell – we wanted less of them. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS. The same goes for machine intelligence and prediction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

At the hoary age of 128, it had already beat the odds twice over when it lost its place to chemical maker LyondellBasell at close of trading this year on September 4 th. Founded in 1886 as a mail-order watch retailer, Sears was already 71 when it became an original member of the S&P 500 in 1957.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Core metrics naturally acquire power in an organization, but people might not be aware of how they can bias decisions. Power by the hour aligns customers and suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.” Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

These leaders are recognizing that this balance drives the innovation and market understanding they need for other key business transformations. This makes it near-impossible to invest the time and management focus needed to effectively adapt to a gender balanced workforce and customer base. How did he do it?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). In some of these companies, senior managers were dubious about the claims.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Total investment in new power generation is a good indication of where we're headed, and for the first time renewables beat fossil fuels globally. In January, China "seized" its rare earth metals (meaning it wouldn't export them anymore).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Adaptability is the power to detect and respond to change in the world, no matter how surprising or inconvenient it may be. While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Customers Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency. And 45% said that they need to bring new innovations into Sub-Saharan Africa to support their strategic objectives in the next three years. We’ve identified three key areas that need to change: Demand creation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

The most powerful tech companies in the world have been quietly deploying deep learning to improve their products and services, and none has invested more than Google. Entirely new business lines and markets will spring up, which will, in turn, give rise to still more innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. Norway banned deforestation and both Norway and Germany moved toward banning fossil-fuel-powered cars. Trump Shocked the World. goods if the country pulled out the Paris agreement.

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