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How The Coronavirus Is Transforming Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Certainly the pandemic has spurred innovation and we’re delighted to see the adoption of some digital health solutions at a faster pace,” says Leslie Harris, Managing Director of EIT Health UK-Ireland. Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation.

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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

What’s missing from the managerial toolkit is a way for managers to allocate their—and their organization’s—time and attention and resources on a day-to-day basis across the competing demands of managing today’s requirements and tomorrow’s possibilities. Vijay Govindarajan. Excerpted from.

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Before Hiring a Design Partner, Consider This

Harvard Business Review

The outcomes will only work in the long term if both sides combine their expertise into a rich body of shared experience and understanding. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble have written at length on the challenges of execution in their book, The Other Side of Innovation. Design Project management'