Mills Scofield

APRIL 27, 2014

You know how much I believe in serendipity & random collisions (a la Saul Kaplan !). “ Innovation is serendipity, so you don''t know what people will make. He helped build the Asian operations of GETCO LLC, one of the worlds largest trading technology firms, listed on New York Stock Exchange today as KCG.

Wiseman 155

Wiseman Kaplan Open-book Engineering 155

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

As well as the shareholding, each startup is required to return 5% of their pre-tax profits to Zen after year 5 of operations. Rural innovation. Whilst none of the factors are necessarily specific to rural communities, they argue that they do allow innovation to occur nonetheless, regardless of one’s location.

Incubator 41

Incubator Diversity Kaplan Objective 41

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations. As an increasing number of people take on the role and mindset of the change management professional, instead of striving to make innovation and improvement routine, they naturally encourage the treatment of change as something special.

Management 8

Management Kaplan Short-term Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Kaplan and Michael E. The results are often surprising; for example in the pilot project described in Kaplan’s and Porter’s 2011 HBR article , one finding was that most providers’ existing cost systems underestimate the cost of new patient evaluation services by 15% to 20%. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. Finance may be moving from a period without much competition into one of disruption, while technology is moving from a period of intense innovation into one of concentrated market power.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

The main criteria were that the speakers came from outside the industry, and would be able to tell stories (sort of like TED-talks) about how other companies went about innovation and reinvention. But the experience seems to have made him even more committed. As he says, "It's the right thing to do.".

Storytelling 8

Storytelling Kaplan Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Unfortunately, fewer than 20% of patients had completed both pre- and post-operative surveys.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Great business leaders know that strategy and innovation is as much about what we don’t do as it is about what do end up doing. The Laws of Subtraction brings these rules to life through engaging personal stories, anecdotes from innovative companies and an emphasis on Zen aesthetic principles of design.

Kaplan 163

Kaplan Policies Constraint Innovation 163

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Pepsi Refresh failed because it had no relevance to the brand’s operations or heritage. Now consider the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) , an organization that seeks to bring cutting edge innovation techniques to social initiatives, many of which are similar to those Pepsi Refresh sought to promote. Let me explain.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8