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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Obviously, it is critical for established firms to track technological innovations in their industries and to understand their sources. Insight Center.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. Innovation atrophy. Corporations would fail at innovating, creating, and engaging. Let's call it Enronia, for short. Think again.

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How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

Collaborative activity is the "secret sauce" that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. One solution is to use a flexible, fluid team structure that consists of three tiers : a core, an operational level, and an outer network.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, called McCord and Hasting’s presentation the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. Creativity from superconsumers from within provided the creative spark that launched a huge innovation. Adapted from.