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 those are two separate functions that require different staffing, relationships, and resources.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

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. Innovation Project management' All of this is right, as far as it goes. Those that don’t, don’t.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Discounted Cash Flow Parcell Project 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

The innovation portfolio. The innovation portfolio also contained a new business unit called MedStar Ambulatory Services, a network of small, storefront clinics, diagnostic labs, and primary care offices located in dozens of neighborhoods. and Maryland to launch a more general health insurance plan. The investment portfolio.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

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

JULY 22, 2015

The severances team aimed to increase the number of land parcels processed per day by 50% in one field office in 100 days. The severances team increased parcels processed per day by 175%. The condo team set the goal of completing valuations within 30 days of occupancy for 10 high-rise condo projects in Toronto.

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." But if you work for an organization that can, the first step is to focus your time and resources on exploring these four, key areas: What is our organization's strategy? Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. He's "[a] man of facts and calculations.

Metrics 13

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The automobile, steel, mining and textile industries similarly occupied proximate physical space, sharing resources, labor and information to their great economic benefit. This phenomenon unfolds in particular places, and those special places must be preserved if we want to keep our cities bright and our industries innovative.

Fashion 8

Fashion Industry Parcell Apparel 8

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

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Increasingly, businesses need 2-in-1 leaders to help cope with everything from globalization to quickening innovation to shorter product lifecycles. They wisely accept the limitations of their company's resources; they handle complexity by breaking challenges into manageable pieces so that resources can be allocated.

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Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 12