Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Firms who buy up vast swaths of dubious patents and then use them to squeeze settlements out of deep-pocketed (or not) technology companies and their customers troll the federal courtrooms of the Eastern District of Texas, notorious for its excessive jury awards to plaintiffs. economy $1.5 billion a week. Yes, a week.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. In some rare cases, individuals are able to push back against team consensus and help organizations recognize and proactively respond to changes in the competitive landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Collaboration is not a style. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.” Amy Jen Su.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

They''re a keystone of what we call a "future-back" approach to strategy, which unlike the "present forward" nature of most strategic-planning processes, doesn''t operate under the assumption that tomorrow will be pretty much like today, and the day after pretty much more of the same. Innovation Strategy' Finally, it is imaginative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

There’s a lot of debate over the magnitude of the decline, but there is broad consensus that it has happened and that it’s a big deal. ” Rapid technological advance in computers and automation has led to a huge fall in the quality-adjusted price of capital equipment. Maybe the leading story is “Robocalypse Now.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Unnecessary consensus-seeking for reversible, non-consequential decisions. ” Despite advances in technology, and perhaps in large part because of it, many find themselves working well beyond 5 PM just to keep up with their workloads, but it doesn’t have to be that way. How to Foster a Shorter, More Productive Workday.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

While we''re all familiar with the decline of Research in Motion, this oral history contains first-hand accounts of RIM''s glory days of innovation, followed by inglorious missteps. At most big companies, would-be innovators have to submit their proposals to review boards and then wait months for funding.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Innovating our response to Covid-19. In part these may be fed by the fact it is easy to find social consensus.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

In The Innovator's Guide to Growth we suggested that companies should create one-page "Idea Resumes" that capture the essence of an idea on a single PowerPoint slide. If you don't have an innovation strategy , go and create one.). Can we get to the market without any technological miracles? Is the testing plan well thought out?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete. This was delaying product production.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible. Yet in turbulent times this is dysfunctional.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Ziba''s service innovation and retail design work with Umpqua Bank , for example, continues to be relevant and productive years after it was completed, with the bank adding dozens of branches and tens of billions in holdings. It''s your job to pour what you know into the project and travel with the team: think of it as an equal partnership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years. This goes for B2B, B2C, and B2B2C markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While world-changing in its day, Westinghouse’s technology is now decades old, and years of underinvestment have left the macrogrid increasingly inefficient and unreliable. That attitude was fine when there was a national consensus around electrifying the country with abundant and reliable power, but that era has passed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Left to their own devices, most people tend to collaborate with others they know well or who have similar backgrounds, but static groups breed insularity, which can kill creativity and innovation. To encourage innovation through collaboration and partnership, leaders mustn’t rely so heavily on short-term performance indicators.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

So finally, real bipartisan pressure and consensus are building. Third, and most important, business needs to change how it operates fundamentally. But the real message of the report is that there are serious economic impacts today. What does that mean for business?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

He put it in simple, CEO-friendly terms: “I am accountable for enterprise risk,” he said, “and clearly there’s a strong scientific consensus that climate is a risk.” On top of all these megatrends is incredible innovation, making solutions to our challenges cheaper and more accessible.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.

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