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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. The most widely used metric among our respondents, for instance, was revenue being generated by new products or services over the course of their first few years in the market. stage to the next. Number of ideas generated.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious.

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Taming Your Company's Most Elusive Beast

Harvard Business Review

R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place. Consider, for example, the UK software company, Red Gate. None of them involve idea-generation schemes.