Skip Prichard
AUGUST 16, 2021
Legacy companies, we hear, are all doomed to fail unless they double down on the latest digital innovations, and disruptors are ordained to take over the world. Digital innovation is the answer to everything. And availability of merchandise is what allows a company to make a sale – or not. and it’s never the only answer.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Among other skills, he wanted to find executives who had the wisdom to know when the organization needed to be fundamentally changed and shaken up — and when the organization needed time to incorporate prior changes. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear. They won't let me take risks."
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2017
Developing Skills that Will Matter in the Future. Thought leaders and futurists name complex problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity as the most important future job skills. But at good jobs companies, these very skills are already demanded, developed, and put to use. Here’s why.
Strategy Driven
JULY 13, 2011
The final category is organizational health , which measures whether the company has the people, skills, and culture to sustain and improve its performance. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
Many executives start presentations about products or initiatives with a vague theme statement, often expressed with as much pith as a puff of smoke: “We have a new focus on customer satisfaction,” or “Our current strategic goals are execution and innovation.” Of course not.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 10, 2012
When these things work together, they create what we call a capabilities system: examples include Frito-Lay's direct-to-store delivery, Disney's genius for developing and commercializing family-friendly characters, and 3M's incremental innovation machine. Another divestiture (partial: GE retains a 49% stake) that's hard to argue with.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 11, 2015
Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. That’s where our work is really about innovation. I strongly believe that design and innovation are exactly the same thing.
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