Innovation Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

Simultaneously, technological-induced disruptive innovations and the climate crisis impact every aspect of our daily lives. GUEST POST from Janet Sernack We live in a world, with less stability, certainty, simplicity, and predictability, where regional conflicts, societal divisions, and civil unrest have increased globally.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

Innovating O ur Way to Sustainability , we assert that to address these challenges requires substantial, disruptive innovation across a wide number of sectors. This suggests a new type of leadership – one that Jeff Walker and his coauthors have referred to as “shapers”. Electrical vehicles in transportation.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 28, 2014

SYMF spun out of the BrainGate lab at Brown University and Massachusetts General Hospital to develop communication technologies for people who can''t communicate effectively because of neurological injury and disease. The growth of tablets as a platform has helped make SpeakYourMind''s technology practical and affordable.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. Dan [link] Liz Strauss Mike, You're always pointing to game changing ideas and true insights into how leadership can affect growth. It only makes your current game better.

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QAspire

MAY 7, 2017

Our workplace conversations today are dominated by topics like increasing globalization, economic uncertainties, automation, disruptive innovations, social technologies, generational shifts, mobility, people analytics, gig economy and such.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2013

a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, Bob''s blog entries “How Will You Measure Your Life?"

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 21, 2018

Whether you are a company that wants to attract top talent or an individual who is trying to land your dream job, or create a new business, it’s becoming clear that the future of work is both human and technology centred. For us humans to be effective, productive & innovative, in the Digital Age, we.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Bernie Banks – Former General US Army, head of Leadership Development West Point, currently Associate Dean Northwestern Kellogg School.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 7, 2017

Coping with disruptive technological change A recent article The global forces inspiring a new narrative of progress in McKinsey Quarterly, it states that “Corporate leaders today need to rethink where and how they compete, and must cooperate in the crafting of a new societal deal that helps individuals cope with disruptive technological change”.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 21, 2024

They attribute these issues to the pervasive and addictive nature of technology, exacerbated by the pandemic and divisive global conflicts, accelerating change and the rise of AI […]

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 20, 2018

“The job your child will do doesn’t exist yet”, said the young principal from one of Singapore’s most prestigious private schools in a conference I attended ten years ago. Ten years from now a good number of today’s jobs will not exist, a good number of entirely new jobs will be created and ALL jobs.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I often get asked questions such as, “How do I add value now that this software can do part of my job?” or “is there a role for me now that Artificial Intelligence is taking over the world?” My answer is always this: “You could find yourself on the fast path to irrelevancy or you.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

And using that technology, they make products that consumers so often use for a brief time and then toss in a landfill for 10,000 years. For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. They’re made from pure organic materials that biodegrade when composted.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. What do leadership teams most struggle with in the new environment?

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

According to Singularity University, while emerging technologies may destroy many jobs, they will also create many new appealing ones. Widespread innovation, in the imagination age, will give birth to exciting new industries, all of which are sources of new jobs and occupations. Most of us are aware that the nature of work is changing.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 17, 2023

You developed and are using a best-in-class Innovation Process. You start by talking to consumers, studying mega-trends, and scanning the globe for emerging technologies and disruptive offerings. GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Congratulations! You imagine what could […].

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I recently attended a Fintech Meetup event involving 400 people present to hear the CEO of one of Australia’s four biggest banks speak about his innovation strategy. Unsurprisingly, it was to embrace innovation through technology and to create a people first culture.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

Covid-19, a microscopic piece of genetic material, is testing our leadership. In the midst of our crisis today we turn to the leadership of experts – epidemiologists, researchers, pharmacologists, doctors, health professionals, food producers, food distributors, refuse collectors, public utilities. Innovation matters.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

If you are an established organization and something new comes along, you are more than likely going to want to use it to do what you did in the past as apposed to use it to disrupt. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

And using that technology, they make products that consumers so often use for a brief time and then toss in a landfill for 10,000 years. For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. They’re made from pure organic materials that biodegrade when composted.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It offers the immense potential to innovate new markets where none existed before: Think of the billion-dollar industry the Square credit card reader unlocked, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 8, 2016

As rightly pointed out by Tim Kastelle recently, it’s imperative to distinguish discovery from execution when it comes to startup and innovation activities – bearing in mind that both purposes are complementary and equally important.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In recent years, an increasing intensity in collaboration between incumbent companies and startups has been observed. Meanwhile, close to 80% of corporations and startups have already been or are collaborating.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

But the key question is whether Cook can sniff out technology and market opportunities while knowing intuitively (or with the help of others) what risks to take. Most acknowledge Cook as exceptional at execution, but we know little about whether he has the innovator's DNA to "see what's next," the way Jobs did consistently.

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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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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 27, 2017

So, how does your Marketing serve your innovation? Does it define clearly and collaboratively? Does it integrate desirability, feasibility and viability in an optimal manner? Does it communicate with clarity and impact?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Leadership's Full Measure. It's Still Tough to Get Hired (and to Quit). I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. Kyle Wiens. This was by far the most commented-upon post of the year.). Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen. Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young. Anne Kreamer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. IT management Information & technology Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. Innovation Leadership Leadership transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

As we grew, I knew it would be very difficult to continue to create the breakthrough innovations that had led to Medtronic's high growth rate, which had exceeded 18% per annum for a decade. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Daimler Trucks North America executives saw how IoT technology could fix this fundamental flaw in the design of the repair process, making the process smoother and more efficient for drivers and technicians alike. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. Build and share a transformative vision.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Daimler Trucks North America executives saw how IoT technology could fix this fundamental flaw in the design of the repair process, making the process smoother and more efficient for drivers and technicians alike. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. Build and share a transformative vision.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

The Verizon Wireless side of the telecom giant, which is 45 percent owned by Vodafone, is also deepening ties with Google for the Droid and betting on its faster fourth generation (4G) network based on new LTE (long term evolution) technology to leap forward in the wireless marketplace.

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