Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Suppressing Innovation.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Transportation is a significant issue for this patient population.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Classic leadership lessons apply. To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. Engineering innovations lowered the cost.

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Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

How could an advanced country, once the model for the world’s most modern transportation innovations, slip so badly? The average family of four spends as much as 19% of its household budget on transportation. I put aside work on a book about leadership to tackle the infrastructure issue. This amounts to 5.5

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation CEO Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Narratives are powerful leadership tools. This kind of leadership communication is sorely needed now to get moving on America’s infrastructure problems. Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue.

Transportation 8

Transportation Wireless Entrepreneur Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. The lesson is clear.

Chief Technology Officer 12

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. Assumptions toppled Kodak despite the fact that its engineers built the first digital camera in 1975.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla. The few that do succeed often employ an “ ambidextrous” solution.

Industry 8

Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

We should not take our eye off the really important ball: economic growth and the innovation process that underpins it. A significant part of innovation and almost all of commercialization is driven by profit incentives and relies on a system of protection for the intellectual property rights of innovators and entrepreneurs.

Politics 15

Politics Innovation Incentives Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. Innovation Strategy Transportation' But a blanket dismissal of its effort is a mistake.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Five thousand years ago, use of the wheel began to spread from Mesopotamia across Eurasia, revolutionizing transport and enabling chariot warfare. The United States is home to some of the key pioneers of Technik whose innovations help society adapt to the future. Which societies display the best Technik today?

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The bike must be impeccably maintained — oil, gas, gears, engine — and the rider must know it intimately, down to the depth of the tire treads to the millimeter. But in Africa (or, for that matter, anywhere else), if reliable transportation is not part of the health-care delivery system, people die. Barry should know.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Health Care Transportation System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

The program pairs start-ups with government workers to improve government services in areas including transportation, energy, data services, and the environment. When we asked our fellows, here are the reasons they shared with us: The opportunity to explore something new and find new paths to leadership. At over $140 billion, the U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Many people naively see collaboration as a leadership style in which relationships take precedence over the task at hand. For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. Collaboration is not a style. Amy Jen Su.

Chief Operating Officer 9

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

An innovative example is Houston’s approach to engaging the faith community in health care. So under the leadership of the city’s health department, a Faith and Diabetes Summit was held whose 100-plus participants included leaders of the Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian communities.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care System Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. The Leadership Structure. First order of business: Build a leadership team. Where We Started. Straightforward, right? Set the standard.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Change management Customer service Informal leadership' In the afternoons, we moved the group to the (then) new Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, or “ Stanford d.school ,” for the “hands on” part.

Case Study 9

Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Pratt & Whitney has partnered with IBM to enhance its engine management offering. Build an adaptive organization with the right leadership structure.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Well, put simply, the more elements of the design that are under your control, the more effectively you're able to radically change the design of a product — you give your engineers more degrees of freedom. Two key questions remain: Has Boeing learned from the mistake?

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing P&L Airlines Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Innovation and change. They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy , transport ourselves and our goods, interface with machines, and explore our solar system. Hyde” side is a relatively straightforward problem.

Succession 12

Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This is data that comes through search engines, social media platforms, loyalty points and other digital transactions, such as dynamic cookies. Navigating New Zealand’s largest city with Auckland Transport and digital transformation. Now the rise of digital technologies has added a third construct: data equity.

Content 8

Content Niche Marketing Discount Travel 8