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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. As the U.S.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization.

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

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Can Charisma Be Taught?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, "perhaps only in Silicon Valley would a group of engineers think they could hack their way to charisma with a series of neuroscientific shortcuts." This is how opportunities to be nimble and innovative are squandered, he says, and how companies become irrelevant.

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. A study of star engineers at Bell Labs found that the most accomplished ones worked in a close-knit group, but also frequently reached out to people outside of it. Gary Hamel and C.K. These are all synchronized systems.

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. A study of star engineers at Bell Labs found that the most accomplished ones worked in a close-knit group, but also frequently reached out to people outside of it. Gary Hamel and C.K. These are all synchronized systems.