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What Government Should Relearn from Business (And It's Not Efficiency)

Harvard Business Review

drama's main players about leadership, negotiation, and protecting our (national) brand. Of course, government has long looked to business for new ways of managing. Public variants of outsourcing were pushed as part of George W. Business strategies focused on process and efficiency won't help the country manage that.

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Scaling Your UX Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. As brand thinking has been institutionalized, management has figured out ways to assign value to this "asset." So, if you are an enlightened executive in the post-Steve Jobs era, how do you grow and manage this emerging corporate asset?

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. And it’s not just your company.