Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

If a company plans to invest in adaptability training, it will also want to know what its return on investment will be. Incubates innovative thinking – Adaptable individuals have the ability to forward-gaze; thinking several steps ahead enables them to zig while everyone else zags.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. We saw something new taking hold a few years ago – San Francisco had usurped Silicon Valley as the new center of tech innovation. Leadership Tip: bring a “What if?” Entrepreneurism is a good contagion.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. Since the term was coined in the 1980s, intrapreneurship has been sold to companies as a catch-all solution for fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. What does it take to innovate at scale?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. those who have the talent and drive to be inventive and enterprising) were happy at work, or at least felt that their ideas are being valued, they would contribute to innovation and growth in their employers' organization, rather than setting up their own company.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2018

To address the needs of Japan’s aging population, the government is responding is easing several life science regulations and accelerating approval of innovative new drugs in a campaign to promote current pharma companies, both domestic and foreign, and to attract new companies to the Japanese market. chairman and CEO David A.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

At Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, we have the privilege of working for ambitious customers; their plans include missions to Mars, examinations of asteroids, and scientific explorations that push ever deeper into the solar system. That requires constant innovation, in both our products and our own operations. Collaborate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Many of these entrepreneurial lessons have been codified in books, the new bibles for innovation — not just for entrepreneurs but also for managers looking to create new and innovative innovation businesses inside existing corporations. In advertising, creative teams are being displaced by open innovation platforms.

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LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

We have Denise Brosseau, founder of the Thought Leadership Lab here on LDRLB. It would be really boring if we had a podcast talking about a podcast, so let’s talk about the book instead, and let’s talk about Thought Leadership Lab. Thought leadership does not happen overnight. DENISE: (laughs).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

At the 2010 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum in New Delhi we facilitated a workshop entitled "Innovating More with Less for More" where C-level execs shared best practices which their companies have adopted to enable inclusive growth in India.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary. But the planned urban development PUD also has shared infrastructure and systems that enable the community to operate (e.g., a condo development, apartment building, or golf course).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Over the last six years the federal government funded more than 50 new regional innovation “clusters,” and across America new accelerators and entrepreneurship boot camps are proliferating. There is little planning and almost no communication between the relevant parties.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy' So we are left with a quandary.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Right now incubators such as Y Combinator and TechStars are performing this task for the best existing entrepreneurs. But imagine the impact non-profit or government facilities available to everyone could have by providing access to business plans, pro-forma templates, industry reports, and good, old-fashioned mentorship.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM leadership must have the courage to quickly modify or even eliminate the ones that aren’t working according to plan. The most successful innovative companies buy startups and other private companies to help transform themselves. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This method’s primary aim is to attain deep understanding of customer needs using ethnography, anthropology, and other user-research techniques – putting users, rather than features, first in the planning process. Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant.

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