Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Note: This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. Visible senior management involvement.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. Others are essential to running the existing business but don’t necessarily provide a competitive advantage.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Kotter’s book Accelerate.).

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I recently caught up with Sir Dave to learn more about his success in cycling and what lessons his experience holds for managers in other arenas. Taken together, we felt they gave us a competitive advantage. I think the British government is already very much clued in to novel management approaches.

Kaizen 8

Kaizen Critical Success Factor Competitive Advantage Brainstorming 8