Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% Health Costs Are Actually Not Spiraling Out of Control (PwC). Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” ” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. Now, Netflix is targeting other entertainment providers and is set to disrupt yet another part of its industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% Health Costs Are Actually Not Spiraling Out of Control (PwC). Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

This can't be done from afar: Be present as your team goes through the beginning steps of a project so that members can see first-hand what you mean by empowerment. Quote from one or two articles on empowerment in respected publications. Then demonstrate what you're talking about.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Corporate CEOs.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

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. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. You call it this big bang disruption. LARRY: Sure.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Why does disruptive innovation seem to take so long? And why don’t the usual levers we deploy to speed up our innovation efforts–like pushing more resources, more frequent check-ins, and tighter deadlines–seem to deliver results? Innovation webinar'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

The subject was intrapreneurship and it seemed like the organizers had collected an all-star panel; two Googlers, an early Facebooker, one of the recent additions to the Paypal team, and one of the IBM leads on the Watson project. Yes, all of the panelists were speaking broadly on innovative projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. It is the innovator’s job.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Even using what seemed to be conservative assumptions, the team’s long-term projections showed a big, profitable idea. Of course there were many uncertainties behind those projections, but the team had a smart plan to address critical ones rigorously and cost effectively. Budgeting Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Innovation is a particularly sticky problem because it so often remains undefined. We treat it as a monolith, as if every innovation is the same, which is why so many expensive programs end up going nowhere. Defining a managerial approach to innovation starts with developing a better understanding of the problem we need to solve.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

The Batten Institute has been tasked with helping Darden become a thought leader in innovation entrepreneurship. I support that role by supporting our professors, doing research, and conducting our own research into practical questions around innovation. I joined Jeanne Liedtka and her research project in the Growth Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I thought it would be helpful to provide the list of 31 questions, and my one sentence perspective on each question, as it dovetails with my current book project (tentatively titled, The Little Black Book of Innovation.) How do you define innovation? What are different types of innovation? What is disruptive innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Innovation' Why is that?

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 18, 2017

Today's conventional wisdom says to survive, companies must move beyond incremental innovation and invest in radical, disruptive innovation. In "THE POWER OF LITTLE IDEAS" , Wharton professor David Robertson examines an approach to innovation; one that is neither incremental nor disruptive. Unlocking Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. Disruptive products and services are unleashed. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With AI’s influence, their projections suggest a potential resurgence in global GDP growth, envisioning a substantial boost to the global economy by 2032. They conducted an in-depth analysis of over 160 million jobs in order to produce analytical insight to help leaders navigate this change.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. A recent OECD study projected that spending by Asian middle class consumers will have grown from $4.9

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone. What if I don't have that foundation?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But I've found that the rules of disruption apply to the individual too. Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. This Monday, I was in Mumbai conducting market research with a project team. These observations weren't closely connected with my client work, but they did help to provide local context and might ultimately spur thoughts about opportunities for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. The partnership provided Keurig with the funding it needed, plus the value-added education in roasting and brewing coffee, and gave GMCR a stake in a promising innovation at relatively low risk.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

China is now experiencing a middle income trap — losing their competitive edge in labor-intensive industries and not yet gaining new sources of growth from innovation. Official support and encouragement for disruptive businesses would allow innovators to create unusual and long-term value for their companies.

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Disruptive Innovation Entrepreneur Short-term Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Reports of the death or deliquescence of Google''s "20% time," which allows employees to devote one day a week to side projects, may well be exaggerated. Keeping it productively innovative and innovatively productive is another. At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. 3M, which invested heavily in continuous improvement, had to loosen its sigma methodology in order to increase the flow of innovation. So should we abandon continuous improvement?

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Higher education, however, is in the midst of dramatic, disruptive change. It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled. There are sites — notably Degreed and Accredible — that adapt existing notions of the credential to a world of online courses and project work.

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