LDRLB

MAY 8, 2013

All companies, whether they are successful with innovation or not, have one thing in common: they have their own “personalities.” This last week at the Front End of Innovation conference in Boston, I shared a presentation on the Strategies and Tools for Creating a Culture of Innovation. LEAPS Innovation Leadership Competencies.

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Innovation Kaplan Download Creativity 162

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market. The other domain is leadership.

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LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

They might include sales productivity metrics such as market share, the company’s ability to charge premium prices relative to peers, or sales force productivity. Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth.

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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. Firms are failing faster than they used to , for instance, and there is substantial evidence that the gap between winning and losing firms is partly driven by technology adoption.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. An idea, behavior, or product is creative if it is both novel and appropriate to some goal. Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths. Let's do a quick review.

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