Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” Speed is our friend in almost every case.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " Two articles didn't scream sustainability until you read them: " Chemical company paints rosy picture for the future ," which opens with the question, "How can a chemical company earn more money through eco-friendly products?"

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Most workdays aren’t terribly productive. How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity. 9 Productivity Tips from People Who Write About Productivity. For podcast startup Gimlet Media , an abstract question — “Should we become a technology company?” Sprints encourage fast follow-up.

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Consensus Hotels Project Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

had any product, service or process innovation between 2006 and 2008. China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. We need a much more skilled business leadership than we have currently, capable of creating as well as managing.

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