Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's true that Apple's success in the last decade has been built on a remarkable string of innovations, which seems harder to "codify." Place product experience first, not P&L. Jobs considers P&L to be a distraction. When a DRI's project appears on the Monday meeting agenda, so does his or her name.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. implement frequent, rapid, project-specific evaluations instead of annual performance reviews). Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

Generally speaking, executives are compensated for things under their control: moving projects along, the stewardship of a P&L, and for the company hitting financial targets. Ideally, these R&D projects would have been selected and maintained for their maximum ability to produce outcomes.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A leader wearing the hat of teacher focuses on building competencies and thinking capabilities – such as how to read a P&L statement or presentation skills. While competition can be a blessing, fueling higher standards and innovation. Teaching focuses on cognitive skills and capabilities. employees’ beliefs and values.

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P&L Strategic Planning Game Theory Mission Statement 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

With three efficient plants staffed by 3,000 employees, it had reinvented itself to become an innovative manufacturer of modular steel staircases and fiberglass doors. These deductions, which totaled 12% of sales, had previously been collapsed into a single line item in the P&L for each customer. The Power of Customer Costing.

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Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

CEO Peter Loscher declared Germany's plans to move aggressively toward renewables "the project of the century.". The larger trend here is the continued growth of "open" — open data and open innovation, including new value-chain business partnerships and cattle-call contests inviting in any and all ideas. Watch this space.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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. 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. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. This new world of social media, where everyone has a voice, can be tough on companies.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10