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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Sixty-four percent have allocated time to innovation activities.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Leadership is about showing common courtesies, caring and encouraging the growth and development of those whom you lead. We were all in Newport, Rhode Island, to attend the Navy’s prestigious leadership development course known as Command Leadership School. The term “paradigm shift” is a well-worn term. Be proactive.

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Finding Your Next Big (Adjacent) Idea

Harvard Business Review

More and more, as I talk with companies about their next big product innovation, they can't get far-flung ideas out of their mind. They prevaricate while smaller, more proximal innovations, more likely to succeed rapidly, languish unattended. That's the kind of urgency and immediacy that innovating the adjacent possible leads to.