Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term. Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. And, for those managing such projects, it can be difficult to sustainably guide them through circuitous organizational terrain. We call it slow innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. This usually requires incubation and protection of a new venture in an autonomous unit. Initiate fewer projects. Incremental Improvement.

Budgeting 12

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. stage to the next. Alignment can take a while.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Indian companies have traditionally contributed to inclusive growth primarily through philanthropic activities or CSR (corporate social responsibility) projects. While these non-profit projects have a modest societal impact, they were devoid of for-profit business models — and financial motivation — needed to scale them up.

Business Model 15

Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This should go without saying, but it’s vitally important to develop relationships with the CEO, business unit leaders, and other key executives to understand the company’s strategy, so that the innovation approach and projects you pursue align with overall corporate goals.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

New markets are created. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. But innovation at scale seems to be within reach of many more companies than might succeed in creating brand new markets. Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. Hand-pick talent.

Innovation 9

Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

. “I guarantee you that the people who are not getting picked [for the best assignments] are very conscious of not getting picked, so you need to keep a record of who you brought to the last high-level presentation and who took the lead on the last big project.” He says his approach to leadership has evolved. Be inclusive.

Management 11

Management Video Team Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups. Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. A start-up might need an angel investor who believes in the project to provide initial equity. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

“Is it market factors? ” Try to “project forward,” he says. A few years ago Brad Neuenhaus was invited to join a company that was being incubated out of a large teaching hospital in Boston. “In the end, it came down to my assessment of the likelihood of this incubator succeeding.”

How To 8

How To Incubator Due Diligence Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

But the Scalerator is very different from your typical startup accelerator: in our program, startups of any sector or age are accepted only if they have already demonstrated real market traction, high levels of ambition, and have a significant ownership stake. We helped the leading NGOs start growth projects for their own constituencies.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

To achieve these goals, organizations are using more part-time, project-based freelancers to supplement their internal staff. Each year 40 high potential young leaders from around the globe come together and work in teams on projects like “How do we grow our business in the chemicals industry?”

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8