Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data. They link their work to existing priorities , moving opportunistically to join projects already under way.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I recently spent a couple days inside a large financial services company with a team that had been tasked with developing disruptive ideas. The team had been together for three weeks and had already come up with dozens of ideas. It's natural for people pursuing innovation to jump into idea-generation mode.

Power 15

Power Constraint Transportation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

We've seen large companies adopt a startup mindset and cut campaign development times by 50%. If a user clicks on the banner, she is taken to a 404 / "Not Found" message; if enough users click on the banner, the product will go into development. The company first mapped out every step in its campaign development and execution process.

Marketing 17

Marketing Metrics Agility Budgeting 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

It would therefore make sense for organizations to increase diversity in teams that are focused on exploration or idea generation, and use more-homogeneous teams to curate and implement those ideas. For all the talk about the importance of creativity, the critical piece is really innovation.

Diversity 13

Diversity Creativity Analysis Consensus 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Number of ideas generated.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

These forces not only rob employees of time to concentrate on completing complex tasks or for idea generation, they also crunch the downtime that is necessary for restoration. A Microsoft study found that it takes people an average of 15 minutes to return to an important project after an e-mail interruption.

Company 15

Company Agility Energy Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Though many organizations already use assessment for hiring , leadership development , team-building , and executive coaching , it has not been extended much to hiring and building better innovation teams. We suggest that you longitudinally track project successes based on profile traits of individuals and groups.

Creativity 8

Creativity Innovation Tools Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

We've seen large companies adopt a startup mindset and cut campaign development times by 50%. If a user clicks on the banner, she is taken to a 404 / "Not Found" message; if enough users click on the banner, the product will go into development. The company first mapped out every step in its campaign development and execution process.

Marketing 10

Marketing Metrics Agility Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

One of the most promising approaches for understanding patients’ experiences has been design thinking , a creative, human-centered problem-solving approach that leverages empathy, collective idea generation, rapid prototyping, and continuous testing to tackle complex challenges.

Health Care 14

Health Care Transportation Mayo Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

By the time Basadur was asked to help out on the project, P&G had already tested a half-dozen of its own copycat green-stripe bars, though none could best Irish Spring. It's not taught in MBA programs."

Innovation 18

Innovation Creativity Cooper Idea Generation 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The idea generation stage is often referred to as divergent thinking or exploration. Unless you plan to have your team hand off its creative ideas, you will need to create a team that can operate in both modes, switching among them as appropriate. The routes to team innovation are still being developed.

Creativity 8

Creativity Innovation Team Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

But the most important and universal lesson is that everyone has a vital contribution to make — and that the ideas they produce, the energy and initiative they bring to the table, and the passion they share have nothing to do with the position they occupy. You can read all of those here. But don't take it from me. Story by Jim Lavoie.

Management 11

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Genetic studies suggest that genes determine only 10% of the variability in creative potential, so there is a lot of room for development. Ever since Teresa Amabile first emphasized this idea, meta-analytic studies have confirmed the intuitive idea that assigning people to projects they love unleashes their creative potential.

Creativity 8

Creativity Incubator Motivation Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

While office time is important, both for formal meetings and for those informal conversations that are so important for idea generation and team camaraderie, the fact is that most knowledge workers could get by with doing something on the order of 30% of their work from home (or other locations) and at non-traditional work times.

Short-term 11

Short-term How To Human Resources Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

It's about information exchange, resource exchange, idea generation and on and on. It's a huge and real loss in terms of career development. Companies also lose some of the opportunity to have employees contribute new ideas that might be percolating within the larger culture but under the radar of the organization.

Silverman 16

Silverman Real Estate Fashion Open-book 16

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 11, 2011

Today is the day I blocked out to brain-storm and chalk work (I have a chalk-board in my office ) the content for this project. When I left my old employer the portable path came with me, and has served an my calming, thought provoking, idea generation, slowing down – best practice. The process worked!

Team Building 83

Team Building Creativity Conference Learning-by-Doing 83

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

These apply to all employees, whether managers or their direct reports: communicate effectively in writing, defuse negative emotions, express feelings constructively, handle customer phone calls, interpret nonverbal behavior, listen to understand, facilitate dialogue, present a persuasive argument, request feedback, accept feedback, give positive feedback, (..)

Skills 104

Skills Construction Goleman Emotional Intelligence 104

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment. Creative new ideas generated. He conducts company evaluations, creates the big ideas and anchors the enterprise to its next tier.

Strategic Planning 68

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 68

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Business development. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Well-known sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo allow people to raise money for new projects. Design platforms like Crowdspring and 99designs give people the tools needed to crowdsource graphic design ideas and feedback. Diverse teams, on the other hand, generate solutions that no single individual could develop.

Participative 9

Participative Innovation Guidelines Idea Generation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Truly innovative companies avoid giving people job descriptions, or they find creative ways of encouraging them to join multiple projects. Over the last few years, its big new product lines — including a healthy Veg Pot and its This Water line — have both come from ideas conceived and developed by mid-level employees.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. Then, both approaches move toward developing a theory about how to solve the problem or design challenge.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8