In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2012

These are the folks who don’t know the difference between strategy and tactics – those who view strategy as a needless constraint. When I proposed divesting a couple of them, the CEO was horrified. Many senior managers haven’t the foggiest idea how to do this. Confidence (or lack thereof) is easy to spot.

Strategy 196

Strategy Short-term Constraint Strategic Planning 196

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 23, 2011

Most folks in the branding game will judge a proposed slogan or tag line by a defined set of objectives. Ironically, a great slogan’s constraint to longevity can be the boredom of the marketer. Leadership. The Perfect Brand Slogan. by John • May 23, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 3 Comments. But the slogan’s a winner.

Brand 196

Brand CEO Marketing Proposal 196

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Charles Hensley''s perspective about tax inversion challenges us to think about ''national'' status, incentives, and the constraints of 20th C thinking. Brown University Business Economics Education Finance IFJ Innovation Intercollegiate Finance Journal Leadership Millennials NYU Policy Strategy Technology University of Chicago economy'

Finance 131

Finance Incentives Education Pharmaceuticals 131

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

Believe it or not, at least 162 different answers have been proposed to that question. That's the number of invention methodologies my colleagues and I have perused in the course of assembling what we call The World Database of Innovation. All of us have heard stories or seen images of resourcefulness under daunting constraints.

Altshuller 15

Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 15

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

Such an effort would require the field to break free from the constraints of computer science and engineering, taking in such disparate disciplines as economics, biology, psychology and various other social sciences.

Bond 63

Bond Technology Engineering Constraint 63

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 8

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I believe that this has resulted in making talent management the #1 constraint to a business’s growth. As a solution, I’ve proposed that organizations seek to adapt their work culture to attract, hire, and retain top talent. Innovation was the focus. The style was still very top-down. They managed by “walking around.”

Leadership Styles 52

Leadership Styles Leadership Constraint Talent Management 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

One of the most critical challenges facing growth-seeking executives in large companies is deciding what constraints they should be placing on their organizations’ innovation efforts. On the other hand, incorrectly constrained innovation efforts carry well-documented risks. Instead, give your innovators general financial goals.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Team Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. Yet, despite their stated enthusiasm, hospitals have been notoriously slow to adopt digital innovations. health care system.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Innovators have to deal with particularly insidious lies — things that people say that they believe are true, but actually aren't. Innovators working on new ideas often show early versions to customers to assess "purchase intent." Leaders often forget this lesson when they focus on innovation.

Innovation 15

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Technical innovations explicitly intended to save water led to greater waste and frustration. Sustainability can be subverted by the everyday inconvenience of innovations that prioritize environmental efficiency over effective performance. This gray market innovation climate invites SMOG — for Sneaky Modifications of Greentech.

Innovation 11

Innovation Marketing Efficiency Energy 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. But agile innovation teams work better than current approaches, and agile principles hold that making immediate progress beats waiting for perfect solutions before starting out. Still, that frustration is a natural part of agile innovation. Develop team agility.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

In fact, when there are severe resource constraints, it is more important than ever to maintain audacious goals. The real magic is in process innovation. The innovations of the Aravind Eye Care Hospitals go beyond cataract surgery. These are serious proposals that merit serious investment.

Company 11

Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2015

Yet, when employees do choose to speak up, research suggests that a host of positive things can happen, including higher employee engagement and job satisfaction, greater learning , enhanced innovation and creativity , fewer accidents and safer workplaces , and even better unit financial performance. Find influential “informants.”

Proposal 8

Proposal Construction Constraint Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Postal Service ran an ad campaign warning about the dangers of email and proposed paper-mail as a safer and more reliable alternative. Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. But it wasn't a joke.

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. ” Next, both methods advise trying out the proposed solution.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The product manager, who had come up with what he thought was an airtight, iron-clad, compelling and irrefutable business case for launching a fairly clever innovation, completely failed to persuade the impassive CMO. No one should go into an innovation pitch without real information and insight into "What would it take to change your mind?".

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Innovation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Choosing weaker environmental regulations actually makes our country less competitive and shows amazingly little faith in our business community to innovate. This law established the first major "cap and trade" system; it didn't restrict carbon dioxide as current iterations propose, but mandated reductions in acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide.

Cost 9

Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. Find Pivots.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Postal Service ran an ad campaign warning about the dangers of email and proposed paper-mail as a safer and more reliable alternative. Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. But it wasn't a joke.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

But the program is limited — unnecessarily — by the significant administrative constraints of the vendors who process claims. As a result, 21st-century innovation is about to hit the decades-old infrastructure for health care transactions. Surely, this seems like the early stage of realizing Solon’s goal.

Health Care 8

Health Care Analysis Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

the approach to digital privacy has been more piecemeal: in effect, it is predicated in part on the idea that the ability of companies to collect, analyze, sell and monetize user data with minimal restrictions is the basis for an innovative digital industry; new users are drawn by free services and companies make money from the data collected.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. Paul Garbett for HBR. Imagine you’re the CEO of a casual dining chain.

Company 8

Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

But you can get your people back into the groove with a little work, says Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, a partner at The Innovation Architects, the advisory firm, and the coauthor of Innovation as Usual. Think about when, where, and how your team has been most innovative in the past. Sometimes you need to rethink what you’re doing.”

Team 8

Team Brainstorming Creativity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

From where we sit, both sides have legitimate beefs: IT complains that, despite the increasing penetration of technology into every nook and cranny of the business , it doesn’t have a seat at the table and no one understands how difficult their jobs are given the constraints under which they operate. Find common ground on medium-term issues.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The mega forces driving sustainability deep into business — such as climate change, resource constraints, and transparency — are getting stronger. The math and physics of a planetary constraints get clearer. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Bitcoin creation is thus a bit like Milton Friedman''s " k-percent rule ," which proposed that the money supply be made to grow automatically at a steady rate that averts both inflation and deflation. Instead, supply is determined once and for all by artificially-arranged resource constraints.". Economy Innovation Technology'

Price 8

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This tax represents a key public policy innovation that is a rare win-win: it will hold down health care costs while raising substantial tax revenues. One alternative that has frequently been proposed is a “cap” on the tax break, so that health insurance is only taxed like wages above a certain threshold. Fix the Handful of U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Policies Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The rationale for democratization is clear, since R&D labs have numerous natural constraints that can limit the true potential of experimentation. Managers should not only encourage their employees to experiment with their ideas, but even go so far as requiring experimentation when ideas are being developed and proposed.

Analysis 14

Analysis Constraint Transportation Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

When sampling, balance representativeness with critical mass constraints. Several tactics have been proposed. A few months back, we were at a conference where the CEO of a major multinational lamented about “the principle of precaution overshadowing the principle of innovation.” This is generally a good practice.

Sample 8

Sample Project Self-aware Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. Lean proposes a “test and measure” process of product development. They expect quality, and use it both as a selection criteria for purchase and as a constraint for sustained use.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Just as medical science has broken down patients’ clinical needs and created corresponding specialties, we propose a framework for major types of patient suffering so that health care providers can organize themselves to address suffering more effectively. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Constraint System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

That positive, innovative approach is not only far more likely to lead you to a beneficial solution, but also to a place of trust. We have to remember that they may be operating under constraints as well.” The town had already rejected at least two vendors’ proposals before Haydock gave his pitch.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. In the 1960s FM radio was finally set free of counterproductive regulatory constraints. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted. Apple Invents a Radio.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8