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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

Put More Effort Into Effective Delegation It is absolutely accurate to state that intuitive delegation is part and parcel of the role of a leader, but if you can admit to yourself that you often hand out specific kinds of tasks and projects to the same people time and time again and without thinking, then this needs to change.

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Transforming Rural India Through Agricultural Innovation

Harvard Business Review

On my last trip to India, I witnessed an innovation experiment, National Agro Foundation (NAF) , that addresses this wicked problem. A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. meters to 5 meters in the project area of over 6,000 hectares.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

.” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. By contrast, for corporate innovators each idea needs to carry its own weight. Regard just as valuable evidence that a project won’t pan out as evidence that it will.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

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. That vestiges of old technologies linger on, capable of being resurrected into viable businesses again, doesn’t seem strange to us.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models. The innovation portfolio. This is a collection of budgets to fund both the projects in the innovation portfolio and the new initiatives for the core business.