Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Innovation is a necessity, a way of life for mountaineers. Climbers plan meticulously then innovate their way through unexpected challenges to reach a summit. Aid organizations typically focus on how to transport aid to affected communities. Go climb a mountain.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. How to Stress-Test Your Strategy. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 28, 2011

The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: How to create, sustain and accelerate profitable growth Stuart Cross Global Professional Publishing (2011) How to manage strategy effectively and on a continuous basis In fact, everyone in a given enterprise (including but not limited to C-level executives) should be actively engaged in effective management of strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

“If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space could be reduced by a factor of a hundred,” Musk explains on the SpaceX website. That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Consider Porter's value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

We put a call out to some of our favorite management thinkers and asked what challenges they were going to take on next — and what an inspiring set of projects it yielded. The first, we will admit, is a self-inflicted pattern: Several of our thinkers are setting their sights on aspects of managing people.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Every December, we collect our favorite management insights from each interviewee into this slideshow. Fred Reichheld explained how to increase customer loyalty the way that Apple does. The Trouble with Salespeople.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Here are some recent posts that may be of interest to you: REVIEWS How Women Lead: The 8 Essential Strategies Successful Women Know Sharon Hadary and Laura Henderson INTERVIEWS Maria K. Mitchell (Amdec) in “The Corner Office” Interview conducted by Adam Bryant New York Times Thomas M. Sterner, Part 2: An interview by [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. ’ It also answers the fundamental questions every manager must ask: How do we make money in this business? And what does the customer value?’

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. MIT’s Zeynep Ton says a higher minimum wage could help employers , provided they know how to structure their business around a “good jobs” strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. Conversations, not chains.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. All are actively experimenting with how to build greater leadership capacity for this way of thinking, as well as the skills to act on it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Learning how to speed up growth to increase prosperity of this massive middle would have immeasurable societal value. Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

At UCB, a medium-sized pharmaceutical company headquartered in Belgium, Heresh Rezavandi and his managers Michelle Maddix-Sovero are leading a young strategic intelligence function that’s part of the strategic marketing practice. It also began innovating new services offerings to diversify its portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. Ikea, for example, has figured out how to get customers to pay more than you might expect for furniture that they have to assemble themselves…thus keeping IKEA’s costs low. So this view is often associated with innovation or disruption. That raises a key question — how do you balance the two needs?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

The root problem from Christensen's perspective is that "they didn't keep the purpose of their lives front and center as they decided how to spend their time, talents, and energy." A steady stream of incremental decisions without a clear focus on purpose too often led to unanticipated outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Every Mayo value-improvement project tests one or more innovations for improving the value of care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” As Michael Porter and Thomas H. (For Comparison of outcomes is essential to disseminate innovations from one individual or team to another. For more, see this HBS case.).

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Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Thus, companies on the gold coasts of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

These donors contribute (make that "invest") vast sums to fund campaigns run by professional managers, and they control the ideas the party generates. And, much more exciting, government itself is innovating to support such Big Goal efforts. And what has this model delivered?

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