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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. They are modeling scientists.

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There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business Review

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital.

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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Focus on Your Customer's Customer

Harvard Business Review

These customer experience management initiatives can be complex. That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes. The primary research also identified six underlying passenger needs and desires.

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The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The reason: a fundamental flaw in the management process that is supposed to renew brand health. The blemish is the abdication of brand attention by top management. CEOs (and to some extent, CMOs) are so preoccupied with Wall Street and/or the management fad of the day that their eye has drifted from the heartbeat of their brands.

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