Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities. But over time, systems don’t agree, which can cause tension and conflict in organizations. Half the battle in encouraging innovation involves removing barriers.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When you find yourself thinking about old-fashioned, out-of-touch, hierarchical, siloed organizations, General Motors quickly comes to mind. Call it instinct, call it talent, it was Barra’s ability to encourage teaming that catapulted her to the top of an organization with 212,000 employees. Innovation is always the product of teaming.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. But the most common cause of death they reported? Business unit executives hadn’t bought in to the idea.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

The goal is hollow — it can be accomplished without generating any gains for the organization or insights for team members. ” Many organizations construct short-term projects by simply carving off the first few months of a multi-year implementation plan, and then the next few, and so on. It becomes more and more adaptive.

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The innovation portfolio. Those three business portfolios are: The future state portfolio.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

When faced with a major investment decision, how many organizations would bet their success on a gut feeling? How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times.

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Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

No, no, no," you're thinking, "It's about keeping the staff or innovating or making sure the wheels stay on the bus or." My point is that when you have a culture of innovation, people stay, products ship, and performance sizzles. Since the beginning, Google has had a great culture of innovation. That's gotta change.

Micromanagement 15

Micromanagement Open-book Parcell Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Principle 7 — Generate High-Velocity Decisions) in the section titled Invention Machine he explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions and why understanding the difference is crucial to business growth through invention and innovation.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Taken together, this research points to the fact that most leaders just don’t get what their organizations are trying to do. ” By pulling back on breakfast sandwiches while doubling down on research and development of new coffee creations, he engaged the whole organization in comparative learning.

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

When Nokia's boss declares a state of emergency because the company is caught between a surge of low-end products and the runaway success of other mobile telephony platforms, you know that his organization is crying out for 2-in-1 leadership. It became the most successful product launch in the company's history.

Parcell 12

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles). Investing in innovation capacity.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8