Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Corporations, for the most part, aren't going to reinvent themselves by improving on the core competencies they've been honing for years. Instead, if they're going to change, they're going to do so from the outside in, allowing ideas from the edge of the company to penetrate to the core. Where does social media come in?

Media 8

Media Core Competence Operations Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2011

Let social media mavens debate whether Google+ will succeed as a 'Facebook killer' where Buzz did not. I think they'd benefit from a quick look back at a failed innovation Google quietly DNR'ed. Google Wave , for example, may have been a market failure but even its critics acknowledged its innovation chops.) Not even for Google.

Innovation 15

Innovation Health Care Core Competence Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. I've noticed five tell-tale signs of this syndrome, which I recently described during a talk to the Columbia Media Forum. Innovation is episodic. Sometimes it's because the ideas didn't work out: innovation, after all, is an uncertain process.

Process 15

Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 15

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.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

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.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Hedge Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

The business media lit up over the weekend with the news that Steve Ballmer, the college friend who worked alongside Bill Gates to build Microsoft and was heir to the CEO job, will step down within a year. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. Well, guess what: it does.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

IT may understand the underlying software, algorithms and digital media. Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate. Network effects are media and mechanism for making colleagues, customers, clients, channels, partners and suppliers more valuable.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Social media sites are fabulous for facilitating customer dialogue. Information asymmetries baked into social media platforms and customer care protocols, however, encourage counterproductive behaviors. Social media circumstances invite organizations to prioritize indiscreet tweets over less transparent call center interactions.

Disintermediation 15

Disintermediation Call Center Core Competence Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. Social media understands this and facilitates it. Traditional media also gets this.

Reference 15

Reference Tips Media Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

With the company's retail insights into the browsing, shopping, and purchasing behaviors of its customers, its views into entrepreneurial investment through its Web Services offering, and its Kindle and Fire media consumption devices, Amazon is extraordinarily well-positioned to strategically invest in explicit companies or particular sectors.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. Social media understands this and facilitates it. Traditional media also gets this.

Reference 12

Reference Tips Media Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Where marketing is more in charge, R&D’s complaints tend to be about a lack of imagination, of too many incremental innovations. They’ve studied the role of strategic innovation in corporate performance. But over the long term, marketing doesn’t drive company performance—breakthrough innovation does.

Marketing 8

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

In fact, c hange is one of the most proliferated subjects in blogs, books, and social media chats. I consider Google a tier-one innovator. You “fix brands before they break” with innovations that add value and fortify the bran d’ s raison d’être. Without change, stagnation sets in.

Brand 100

Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

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. Health Innovation Leadership' It makes my chest ache with envy.

Health Care 8

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 8

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. Health Innovation Leadership' It makes my chest ache with envy.

Health Care 8

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 8

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . So how did he meet the challenge of changing the staid academic culture to one that is today unique and innovative? As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

Case Study 90

Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 90

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

The Workplace Environment: Culture, Change, Innovation, and Empowerment. Taking Risks is Necessary, But Costs of Failure Should Still be Managed discusses how to maximize innovation and improvement while minimizing the impact of failure. Nick McCormick of The Joe and Wanda on Management Blo g asks Are You a Manager or a Host?

Leadership Development 205

Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 205

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

On the other hand, you have the media pointing out the country’s shallow middle class, growing inequality and joblessness, and a trail of multinationals frustrated by the lack of China-like success in India. India’s emerging middle class is strong. In fact, tech start ups have attracted over $20 billion in the past 3 years.

Globalization 8

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

But what I didn’t know — and couldn’t anticipate — was how overwhelmingly collaboration’s creative past would influence its innovation future. It was clear that digital media offered radically different properties than, say, blackboards, whiteboards, and faxes for empowering shared space.

Technology 8

Technology Creativity Learning-by-Doing Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. The company's core competency is branding and identifying customer pain points. But the solutions may not be housed on their own soil. Bharti looks nothing like other telecoms.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

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.

Shaw 12

Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

economy — especially software-intensive sectors such as media, professional services, and finance — tend to be highly profitable as well. Some will succeed, and effective innovations will spread rapidly. As McKinsey’s researchers write in their report : The most digitized sectors in the U.S. Others will try and fail.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8