Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. And the new waves of technology keep on coming: social, mobile, cloud, and Big Data promise to raise organizations'' competitive capabilities and dependency on IT further.

Competitive Advantage 8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In this article we look at three very different organizations – IBM, Rich Products, and Intuit – and the three different paths they have taken in reconfiguring their operations for more customer intimacy, by changing methods, reengineering processes, and transforming culture. Intuit: Reviving a Culture Built Around Customers.

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