Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Is your business struggling to come up with a new idea or innovation to solve the latest industry challenge? If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 2, 2023

Recent research from Bocconi University highlighted that we often develop the best ideas when we work with people we don’t know well, but then we develop those ideas most effectively with people we know well.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Some of the other initiatives revolve around work-life flexibility, recruiting veteran talent and building a more diverse talent pipeline – all of which support the company’s long-term growth and innovation. Our Kapable team has driven positive change to make our internal policies and workplace more inclusive.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The very debate is a positive. Gathering information and different perspectives may actually inhibit innovation. Therefore, collaboration involving lots of idea generation from multiple sources does not work for many projects. Personally, I am glad a conversation has begun. I applaud the open discussion.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

When I think I have a great idea I do the same thing every time – I sleep on i t! I love to encourage big dreams and I want to be a catalyst for idea generation and innovative thought. Why are positive emotions anymore trustworthy? I’ve been a church planter and a church revitalizer. Talk about risk.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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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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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

These apply to all employees, whether managers or their direct reports: communicate effectively in writing, defuse negative emotions, express feelings constructively, handle customer phone calls, interpret nonverbal behavior, listen to understand, facilitate dialogue, present a persuasive argument, request feedback, accept feedback, give positive feedback, (..)

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Mindfulness mediation works to enhance creativity and innovation. Research shows that mindfulness meditation can have many positive effects on workplace outcomes. Regularly doing it boosts your resilience, enabling you to mitigate stress , regulate emotions , and have a more positive outlook so that you can bounce back from setbacks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. American Express.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Innovators excel at connecting the unconnected.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Immigrants were responsible for significant innovation in the manicure business: They developed the idea of the stand-alone, inexpensive nail salon, which stimulated demand, which led to wage increases, which led to further economic growth. Feed Your Employees'' Minds and Bodies Innovation Excellence.

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Advertising Idea Generation Innovation Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

How can you ensure that your company has innovative teams? Based on our experience building innovation teams and consulting for Fortune 500 companies on setting up innovation processes, a key component that has proven to be paramount but consistently neglected is psychological assessment. Why does this even matter?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

While I thought many of the ideas were legitimately interesting, after a few hours of working together, a nagging concern began to creep in: that the team hadn't quite formulated what question it was seeking to answer. It's natural for people pursuing innovation to jump into idea-generation mode.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Companies like Google and 3M have benefited from embracing innovation that comes from all parts of the organization. What are the key actions of strategic leaders who drive innovation without formal authority? We consider these findings to be informative for organizations looking to harness emergent innovation from their employees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Our past research highlights the promise of this trend: In the case of a major baby products firm, for example, the best user-generated ideas identified were even more innovative and provided better benefits to the consumer than the best ideas generated by the firm’s designers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. There is so much to learn, borrow, and build upon in these winning entries when it comes to how we can use the principles, and tools of the Web to make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Story by Jim Lavoie.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company. We announced the winners of the Management 2.0

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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. The Western notion of “creatives” as individual superstars is in stark contrast with the realities of real-world innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

In research I’ve conducted with colleagues, we have found that dominant leaders are also easily threatened by other talented team members who might be in a position to outshine the leader. This creates a safe environment where team members feel respected and free to innovate and generate creative solutions.

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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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