Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

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. But it’s more than simple disregard for the quarterly pressures of the public markets that powers these industry behemoths.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Insight Center.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

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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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Fixed Assets Project 8

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. New technologies, including innovative and sensitive chat bots and voice services are now in development to help support patients and caretakers in care homes or hospices.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

Early on, CSAA IG’s executive team recognized that to create a culture of innovation, the organization needed to do more than embrace individual innovation projects. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental. While the company also wants “evolutionary” (e.g.,

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Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 12

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. Your work is specific and actionable.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 399

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. What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. Disruptive products and services are unleashed. New markets are created. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. What does it take to innovate at scale? Customers smile, employees cheer and shareholders win.

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Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Searching for new ideas at Haier involves a competitive screening of business model proposals, open to all, out of which projects and project leaders are chosen. China Disruptive innovation Global business' Understanding Chinese Consumers. China’s Bad Bet on the Environment.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Otherwise, issues raised will go unresolved or projects will drift back to more conventional paths. By taking this approach, Amazon can improve its processes swiftly and the company’s senior leadership stays in touch with what’s happening on the front line.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation. This didn't work well.

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation. This didn't work well.

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

He's figured out how to stay ahead of the transformations in technology, markets, and culture that have shaken his competitors in the financial-services world, and built a brand that stands for something special, hopeful, even meaningful in an industry that is profoundly broken. What should a bank sound like? What should a bank smell like?

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Banking Case Study Brand Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For example, interviews with managers of established technology hardware firms showed that their resource-allocation processes favored sustaining innovations (those that had high margins and targeted large, well-known markets and customers) over disruptive innovations (those that had yet to generate hard evidence on their benefits).

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Politics Innovation Project How To 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In traditional marketing communications, a well-informed brief will shape a human-driven strategy and insight-guided planning process. Chief marketing officers and their teams contemplate and shape the brand attributes that best define the relationship between a product or service and its customers. Marketing strategies.

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Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences). Most of these projects were initiated and executed within one week by utilizing existing resources — thus requiring limited additional budget.

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Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Many new projects get hung up on the chance of failure.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8