Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Innovation has never been more accessible. There is lots of work to be done, of course.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

But the more time I spend with game-changing innovators and high-performing companies, the more I appreciate the need for leaders to “talk the walk” — that is, to be able to explain, in language that is unique to their field and compelling to their colleagues and customers, why what they do matters and how they expect to win.

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Gilbert Banking CEO Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. There have been plenty of recent examples where shareholders would have been well served by systems to curtail wild risks. But companies that follow this approach don't develop a capability to create new growth businesses.

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Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

That could help with cutting costs and improving services, but — groovy urban farms aside — it''s not what you''d call an entirely positive development. Policy innovation. The downtown Detroit boomlet is to a remarkable extent the work of one wealthy risk-taker, Quicken Loans chairman and co-founder Dan Gilbert.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images. Sponsored by SAS.

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