The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Creative boost Research from the Hamburg University of Technology suggests that they might also provide our creativity with a boost. Through such analysis, we can identify which interruptions have the potential to enhance innovation and determine the most effective strategies for managing them within organizations.

Supply Chain 96

Supply Chain Incubator Creativity Objective 96

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A recent study from INSEAD suggests that innovative uses of social media are strongly correlated with creativity in our professional lives. Each participant was asked to complete a questionnaire detailing how they used these technologies to both forge new connections and maintain existing ones. Boosting creativity.

Creativity 41

Creativity Media Engineering Idea Generation 41

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. The foundation of network technology is how the people we connect with think about the collaboration process. . . In addition to seating arrangements, Intuitive also values: .

Social Capital 77

Social Capital Cialdini Competitive Advantage Human Capital 77

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.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Consider the fictitious example of ABC Corp, an organization that historically has built predictable products with existing technology. ABC Corp has a vision to become a more innovative company. The outcome of a key change initiative is to add more innovative products to its portfolio.

Wilde 95

Wilde Idea Generation Morale Process 95

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.

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Now that technology allows us to work anywhere, on any device, work is something people do — not just a place to which they go. As companies design their workplaces for the future, adopting the right technology and putting the right policies into place are key to business strategy and organizational success.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Restructuring Competitive Advantage 8

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.

Management 12

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 12

Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The best part about being stuck in a rut is finding your way out of it and believing that you are capable of being innovative and inventive is half the battle. Popular media company TED (short for Technology, Entertainment, and Design) has got inspiration down to a science. Their lecturers are thinkers, doers, and idea-generators!

Creativity 168

Creativity Idea Generation Entrepreneur Motivation 168

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. It's about information exchange, resource exchange, idea generation and on and on. A drain on innovation. There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace.

Silverman 17

Silverman Real Estate Fashion Open-book 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

We’ve studied stereotypically “creative” firms, like design, R&D, and information technology companies, but we’ve also researched stereotypically “uncreative” environments, like Golan’s manufacturing plant at Elop (which is part of Elbit ISTAR). As a result, innovation can stall.

Creativity 11

Creativity How To System Motivation 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

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.

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

Blog 322

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 322

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. The Jam was three great days of idea generation and dialogue.”

Crisis 8

Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8