In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

New Coke lasted 79 days before the original formula returned to the market. I consider Google a tier-one innovator. At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh has set his cultural sights on a holacracy management system a radical change from conventional structures. By nature, marketing people are dynamic and impatient.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. First, it is critical to make change a core competence. Curating an ecosystem (including customers, peers, venture capitalists, executive recruiters, and strategic vendor partners) to be source of insight and inspiration is the fastest path to broader innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence. The customer is the ultimate beneficiary of these enhanced core competencies—not the driver or determinant.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. By Jess Chipkin , Geneca, Manager of Public and Community Relations. Often considered the “Mother of Cause Marketing”, Ms. Just goes to show what great leadership can do! A New Direction for Corporate Giving.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. This may happen in two ways.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Core Competencies. Performing market assessments.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. The innovator's job is now to create wins across the board. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Disruptive innovation is a parsimonious theory that explains many business failures.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

R&D and marketing typically come at product development from different angles, and R&D’s “things” approach is often at odds with marketing’s “people” focus. In companies where R&D is very powerful, marketers can sometimes be heard complaining about products that are hard to understand and use.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. He ultimately took the tyrant out of a management position at the company (in today’s world, this individual may have been fired). By not doing anything you are just supporting bad management. We might simply vote without doing our homework first.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2011

I think they'd benefit from a quick look back at a failed innovation Google quietly DNR'ed. It offers a sobering reality check for anyone who believes that great people, great skills, great wealth, a great brand, and a great opportunity invariably lead to great innovation, They don't. The market reality proved sour.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Unfortunately, when companies launch innovation initiatives, they tend to devote most of their time, energy and attention to that initial 1% – the thrilling hunt for the breakthrough idea. The real innovation challenge , however, lies beyond the idea, in a long, hard journey from idea to impact. Think Different. Opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One such skill is portfolio management , the application of systematic tools for reducing risks and maximizing the return on investments. You then manage the risk and return in the portfolio by adjusting the mix and amount of investments, since it is unlikely that all of them will rise or fall to the same degree simultaneously.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

You also have to retain, direct, and eventually promote them — something that managers from other backgrounds can find daunting. Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Here are just five examples of the dozens of innovations out there that make my head and my heart hurt. University of Utah put case management right in the intensive care units.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. or "How can we push the innovation envelope?" This was obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Enjoy these cartoons from the April issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Caption Contest. “Did you see a cocktail napkin with our entire marketing campaign on it? . “Did you see a cocktail napkin with our entire marketing campaign on it?” ” Bob Eckstein. ” Andrew Grossman.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". This term comes from The World Database of Innovation, a collaboration between my company, Innovators International, and the CTOs of our member companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation. The breakthrough innovator’s hypothesis doesn’t have to come from a human.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

If your company had just announced a 27% increase in revenues in this market, you'd probably be quite happy. And you'd think the market would be, too. Like many other companies that have a core product line, Google is struggling to find its next market. Since the beginning, Google has had a great culture of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model. Transformers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Instead of focusing on innovation, as he did during his first tour as CEO of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods firm, Lafley is now innovating on focus. “Importantly, this will be a much simpler, much less complex company of leading brands that’s easier to manage and operate.” innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

But in fact, most managers don't. Managers confuse differentiation with being different. My premise in writing Understanding Michael Porter was very simply that clear strategic thinking is essential for any manager in any setting, and Porter's work lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master.

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