Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. How do they do it?

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

We are often asked whether the best way to structure for innovation is top-down or bottom-up. Bottom-up approaches work well for incremental (keeps you in the game) innovations. Breakthrough (changes the game) innovations, contrary to popular belief, need a top-down approach. They must also be willing to see value in absurdity.

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Process Innovation Stage-Gate Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. Yet, despite their stated enthusiasm, hospitals have been notoriously slow to adopt digital innovations. health care system.

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Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

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Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years.

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

And, the misunderstood poem helps to highlight how innovation-seeking executives need to reframe the word risk. Most readers assume Frost’s poem is hopeful, describing the value of the rugged individualism that has long served as an American hallmark. Encouraging risk taking, therefore, can help to boost innovation.

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Net Present Value Entrepreneur Christensen Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This blog was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities , a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. But did you ever see it as the central metaphor for what truly innovative organizations must do? And using net-present-value estimates for "beginning" ideas is nuts.

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CEO Net Present Value Banking Metrics 11