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.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Most commonly noted in hindsight analysis of M&As are the effects of what we will call false positives, where in the fullness of hindsight it becomes clear that an acquisition effort was flawed from the start. The two together, NPV + OV, provide an inclusive but not inflated valuation.

NPV 14

NPV Net Present Value Price Engineering 14

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. Addressing energy use in existing large commercial buildings has proven notoriously difficult. Insight Center.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

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.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50