Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To flourish in today’s business environment, organizations and individuals need to transition from the outdated Alpha system to the fast-growing Beta paradigm. Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. I call this one Beta.

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Decentralization Idea Generation Content Document 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

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Innovation Strategy Execution Idea Generation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Morning Star is one of the world's leading processors of tomatoes and one of the most progressive models of a self-managed enterprise. Story by Jim Lavoie. Story by Frédéric Leconte.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you’ve noticed workers at your organization make unanimous decisions every single time regardless of the issue, then there are signs of groupthink at your workplace and it’s likely stifling innovation and creativity. But what is groupthink?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea. Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative. There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. After all, what is a Snuggie but the mutation of a blanket and a robe?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. Citrix tools offer a wide range of collaboration solutions, including meeting online, sharing and accessing large files, and answering calls with a virtual phone system.

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Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In the world of business, few entrepreneurs can realistically expect to emulate the colossi of innovation, such as Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, or Richard Branson, or the companies they created. It is not enough to master the elements of the system — one also has to rearrange them in original ways. 3) Assign people to tasks they love.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. But he also realized that the existing system was not working as needed. As a result, innovation can stall. It begins with idea generation but doesn’t stop there.

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Creativity How To System Motivation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. According to Management 2.0 Rite-Solutions' innovation engine demonstrates that leaders are willing to take direction from the crowd. Paul Green, Jr.,

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Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They have no problem generating ideas, including some that are potentially useful and novel. Furthermore, they are also generally able to access creative ideas generated by others. Where they fail, however, is at turning those ideas into actual innovations. HBR Must Reads on Innovation.

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Creativity Team Kaizen Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. They are very effective at setting up the structures and systems needed to support an organization’s objectives. The communicator: leadership as stage management. The builder: leadership as an entrepreneurial activity. These people are focused on the new.

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