Innovation NPV Operations System 
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2018
health care system. 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.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 2, 2010
Even Dell, famous for eschewing acquisitions in favor of organic growth, has thrown in the towel with its $5 billion acquisition of Perot Systems. Horizon 1 (H1) represents the current core operations of a company that produce the cash flow needed to sustain operations, to meet investor expectations, and to invest in future growth.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 21, 2016
Today large commercial buildings address only two percent per year of the NPV-positive investments in efficiency that are available to them. Innovation in Cities. This approach has been made possible by the advent of low-cost sensing technology and the ability to acquire data from building systems and energy-consuming equipment.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2017
Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.) That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.
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. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital.
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