Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Both Playboy magazine and restaurateur Danny Meyer have been in the news this week for disruptive business model innovations that challenge deeply help assumptions within the respective worlds. However, how many businesses would be able to embrace this kind of reinvention of their business models?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this mutually beneficial environment, companies can accelerate their learning curves, share risks, and foster a culture of innovation. Promoting Innovation and Creativity: Coopetition creates an environment that fosters innovation by combining diverse perspectives and expertise.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? Focus on value creation.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 24, 2011

(This post continues the summary of fabulous stories and interactions at the 3rd Open Innovation Summit at BW's Center for Innovation & Growth: Practical Challenges of Global Open Innovation featuring P&G on April 21st.) Dean of Research & Innovation at the University of Cincinn [.].

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In today’s faster paced, interconnected world, there’s little doubt that change is the new reality; the new standard by which we now have to operate. It’s the question that serves as the basis of my talk with innovation expert and author, Braden Kelley.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

They operate more as a partnership—a confederation of equals with different skills and talents but a shared calling and a collective zeal to see it through. Wise leaders know that success in the future will not come from incremental improvement but rather through disruptive innovation. Champion Diversity.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 13, 2017

Ralph Ohr explores the question: In order to increase agility, should organizations aim to become more nimble across their existing structures or should they capitalize on separated units/ventures - such as innovation or digital labs - being dedicated to initiate and develop explorative ideas and opportunities?

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

If you’ve been working in innovation for at least some time, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing people talk about “thinking outside the box”, or the need to create “outside the box innovations”. How are outside the box innovations born? How are outside the box innovations born? Creating outside the box innovations.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 12, 2020

Collision Conference has quickly become one of the world’s largest tech and innovation gatherings. Over 32,000 startups, investors, industry leaders, and innovators from across the globe came together virtually to explore, discover, learn and connect. What does innovation mean to you? It’s interesting.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

The Batten Institute has been tasked with helping Darden become a thought leader in innovation entrepreneurship. I support that role by supporting our professors, doing research, and conducting our own research into practical questions around innovation. Some are kind of innovation powerhouses. ” ANDREW: It is great.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. By Daniel H.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

You are also the author of a ton of different stuff around this idea of disruption, the most recent one being- I’m making sure I get this title right. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. You call it this big bang disruption. DAVID: Yeah.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). That past has a strong impact on how new opportunities are viewed (and often how they are ignored).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years. But no industry has ever had its disruption chewed over in quite such exhaustive, exhausting detail as the media in the age of the internets. Maybe the real secret to thriving amid disruptive innovation is not to to think or talk about it too much.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Whether our leaders are considerate or brutal, honest or duplicitous, co-operative or combative, altruistic or narcissistic is very important. Co-operation matters. Innovation matters. Technology is know-how, innovation is about inventing new know-how or making current know-how deliver new value. Character matters.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 16, 2020

Brick & Mortar operations will slim down, reducing the latitude for Marketing experimentation in B&M vs. today. On the other hand, the caveat is that Online will continue to operate with minimum working capital & continental reach, to maximize ROI. Online will be the dominant business model.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

While few Chinese firms have fully embraced it, employee empowerment is commonplace in multinationals operating there. In a number of companies, including Corning China, Bayer CropScience China, Tianjin Alstom Hydro, and Xian-Janssen, I've seen empowered workers drive innovation and bottom-line performance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Big companies are really bad at innovation because they're designed to be bad at innovation. For those who would admonish Gerber for their approach to transformational innovation, it might be wise to consider that the company did exactly what it was designed to do: create operational efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. So I’ll pose a question now: What questions should corporate innovators use to increase their odds of success? It is the innovator’s job. What problem is the customer struggling to solve?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. Absolutely.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Innovation' Measure learning, not results.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Every company should dedicate a portion of its innovation portfolio to the creation of new growth through disruptive innovation. Budgeting Disruptive innovation' But companies need to think carefully about who makes the decisions about managing the investment in those businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. 3M, which invested heavily in continuous improvement, had to loosen its sigma methodology in order to increase the flow of innovation. So should we abandon continuous improvement?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Consider that Disney, Ford and even HP and IBM remained successful for many years after the departure of their founders operating much the same way. It needs to mix the core business with the disruptive innovation. They were infused with an indelible culture and preserved it for some time. But a leader should aspire to do more.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

That's all well and good, you are probably thinking, but what does this have to do with innovation? One thing that blows my mind is how many companies staff their innovation efforts with people who lack sufficient muscle memory to predictably succeed with innovation. But there is a discipline to innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2017

Bain and Company has recently published a worthwile article, debating on the question: What will the firm of the future look like? Among several characteristics, the authors also particularly anticipate future-proof companies to be required to manage two types of businesses by deploying distinct "engines".

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Keeping it productively innovative and innovatively productive is another. What happens to self-image and individual expectations as enterprise definitions of "productively innovative" and "innovatively productive" change? At a certain point, innovation cultures are as much about "credibility" as creativity and ingenuity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

This belief led Ferose to overhaul SAP Labs India's hierarchical, 'top-heavy' corporate culture, allowing bottom-up creativity and innovation to blossom. He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Clayton Christensen's theories of innovation provide us a great lens through which we can understand this seeming paradox. However, when it comes to developing the breakthrough technologies and disruptive innovations that will change people's lives, free markets are much better coordinators of economic activity.

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