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.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We often ask executives to tell us about their biggest innovation failures. The CEO and CFO responded with, "A failure to hit ROI and NPV targets." The head of R&D remembered it as a failure to properly market the innovation. If an innovation initiative failed, ask why.

NPV 15

NPV ROI CFO Consensus 15

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.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8