Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. Tell us a little bit about that model and how it kind of corrects the older models.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Disruptive Innovation.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

All the pieces are in place to create “ disruptive innovation ” and “ cross the chasm ,” but the results are disappointing. The problem is that data, information, and value propositions are not enough to sell innovative products. But when it comes to innovation, the truth is often “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

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Productivity Products Software Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. Well, you know what I mean.

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Training Development Management Budgeting 12

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. As one who has failed to lead ideas and has failed to spark movements around ideas, it seems the bridge between an idea and an innovative idea is a viral movement.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

As part of this process, we formally surveyed more than 150 executives; the sample represented a broad cross-section of health care, with respondents serving in leadership roles at organizations as diverse as physician practices, hospitalist staffing agencies and large health systems.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Disruptive Innovation Survey 8

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

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. Since 1999, HP has seen 6 CEOs and interim CEOs.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

The care, feeding, and culture of productive talent deserve all the attention and debate they get — and more. Keeping it productively innovative and innovatively productive is another. Google X innovation gets to create the future, they observe, while Google innovation gets to improve the business.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Bottom-up Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That’s why Alibaba and Amazon, for example, create and sprinkle autonomous cross-functional teams across their respective companies to invent and deliver products in new ways. These teams regularly come up with innovations that enable these online retailers to roll out more new products and services faster than their competitors.

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Retail Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

Engineering 8

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Salespeople see the world as prospects and products, offers and opportunities. When I conduct workshops with marketing and leadership teams on the design of strategic narratives , I’m often asked, “Should we include the sales teams?” In the beginning of a disruptive innovation, the thing to measure is not ROI.

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Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

All of these individuals have dreamt bigger than the norm, and they are all also notable for “begin[ing] with consumers and their needs, and [coming] up with innovative products and services to accommodate them, amassing wealth in the process.” For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

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Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

It's easy to ax innovation. Potential future customers can't scream about not getting a product they don't know they would love.) So, the innovation efforts get shut down. Makes perfect sense in a world of steady-state production. It can be lethal to organizations trying to be more innovative.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 15

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Stephen R. 6) Synergise.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company. It’s not just products.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Ultimately, Accenture’s Disruptability Index positioned 20 industry sectors — and 98 segments within those sectors — against those two axes. Others are exploring subscription models.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

I think it's more a case of their being dissatisfied with their own lives and expecting that Apple's next product will fix everything. The constant refrain is that Apple has not introduced a disruptive product since Steve Jobs passed away. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping. Some investors are dissatisfied with Apple.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

But Kodak did invest heavily in digital imaging — billions of dollars — and carved out a reasonable position in the digital camera space with its line of EasyShare products.* Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

A new product launch can be great training for innovators. Now, there are ways to get this experience beyond working for a Silicon Valley startup. Working in a satellite office in an emerging country presents many of these challenges.

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Innovation Rogers Creativity Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

At the other end of the spectrum, the industries that are least disrupted often have perceived higher barriers to entry, and a smaller part of their business that can be digitized. These executives also score highly in their social adeptness, bold leadership, and determination. They are less affected, but not immune.

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Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As we reflect on disruption across the industry there are key strategic questions, all of which fundamentally consider balance: What is the right balance between humans and technology across the full media and advertising ecosystem? When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future?

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Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

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

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. He plans to make significant R&D investments, hire lots of sales people to approach enterprise customers, expand in emerging markets and develop entirely new product categories.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 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). AppHaus truly embodies SAP's frugal innovation philosophy. Ferose was recently promoted to become the head of SAP's Globalization Services organization.

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Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean? Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 8