Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Most important, they learned the culture of business, how big companies did or did not do a good job of serving their customers, and their customers’ continuously changing needs. When you begin everything changes. Innovators are curious and have a voracious appetite for learning. Building a company takes time. The reason?

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 1, 2012

CEOs that understand and appreciate the notion are intensely passionate about innovation as the means to this end. They spearhead innovation by ensuring their organization’s cultural norm is continuous change and creativity. Innovation starts with insight and progresses through disruptive hypotheses.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Thanks to the efforts of thousands of citizens who contribute time, money and resources to their programs, formal organizations like the USO , Operation Write Home , and Operation Outreach work tirelessly to bring smiles to troops every day.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

We have done this collaboration for several years now, and it's enlightening to see how the students are facing an ever-changing set of innovation challenges. The theme of our meeting was innovation, and most of the companies represented by the students had been undertaking a variety of innovation efforts for several years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Once every job in a company is defined in terms of the changes to be made (both large and small), constant improvement can become the routine. Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations. Change never occurs as some sort of happening; it is part of everyday life.

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Management Kaplan Short-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. That’s still true. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

The Future of Operations. At a time when the customer end of the business model seems to be getting all the attention, executives must not neglect the equally important operations back end. This will inevitably have a significant impact on operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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