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The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread Its Wings

The Horizons Tracker

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. Practical solutions. Speeding the recovery.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do. Bring your team together to identify ways that you can operate with greater sustainability and then set stretch targets. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. Educate your team.

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Seven Ways to Connect With Your Designer

Harvard Business Review

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. At the same time, design consultancies are increasingly looked at to spearhead the development process — from consumer research to design to prototyping, manufacturing and packaging.

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If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. Going beyond their original definition, I advocate that executives develop a single 3-5 year strategic intent that is both aspirational and measureable. Instead, Martha and her team came up with this strategic intent: "To get everyone in the U.K. online by the end of 2012."

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If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. Going beyond their original definition, I advocate that executives develop a single 3-5 year strategic intent that is both aspirational and measureable. Instead, Martha and her team came up with this strategic intent: "To get everyone in the U.K. online by the end of 2012."

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A New Framework for Customer Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

This then allows the development of specific solutions for each segment. In one presentation, we were exuberant about Big Data and Little Data, and in the next, speaking what seemed to be 1960''s voodoo psychographic language. For each segment, there may be only three or four jobs to be done that are crucial.