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

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

JUNE 8, 2018

Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 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 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The other is a process called Opportunity Engineering (OE) that instills a different way to look at value. 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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NPV Net Present Value Price Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations. 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”)

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8