Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. Achieving the project goal within five days requires them to balance results and trust. "The

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

pursuing adjacent markets, making acquisitions) and significant contractions (e.g. Each strategic shift, of course, was carefully explained and justified by changing market conditions or opportunities; but the net result within the company was a performance-sapping sense of cynicism.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. Without reassurance that the initiative made good business sense, it quickly gave way to other projects that did. The leadership got impatient waiting for demonstrated results.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM? Caterpillar or Microsoft?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

The board’s challenge is to decide what deficits it can live with (usually because they can be compensated for by the rest of the leadership team), and which two or three criteria are non-negotiable must-haves. This process is usually enhanced with the departing CEO’s involvement, as long as the board shows leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

They stand on the shoulders of the methods of "Process Strategy 1.0": Lean , Six Sigma , and Business Reengineering. They like to run lots of experiments with new product or feature ideas and let the market decide which ones deserve further investment. Let's explore what Process Strategy 2.0 is all about: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. To meet this challenge, Kaiser’s Innovation Consultancy — an internal consulting group — will routinely run pilot projects in order to test and prove a concept. Importing New Knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

As Robert Freling (another contributor to this series ) has so elegantly demonstrated with Solar Electric Light Fund projects, it's possible to create a simple solution that simultaneously takes on multiple fundamental issues. In one of the projects, we t worked with Ashoka Change Leader Vishnu Swaminathan and his "Housing for All" project.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

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. What percentage of the leaders in your company, from project managers to execu­tive vice presidents, are formally accountable for innovation?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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