The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Creative boost Research from the Hamburg University of Technology suggests that they might also provide our creativity with a boost. Through such analysis, we can identify which interruptions have the potential to enhance innovation and determine the most effective strategies for managing them within organizations.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Consider the fictitious example of ABC Corp, an organization that historically has built predictable products with existing technology. For ABC Corp, the initiative will focus mainly on the new product development process, especially the idea generation phase. ABC Corp has a vision to become a more innovative company.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. The Beta approach will help you recruit, manage, and retain the kind of talent you and your organization need to profit today and tomorrow.”

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Each participant was asked to complete a questionnaire detailing how they used these technologies to both forge new connections and maintain existing ones. Their creativity was also measured using an 11-item scale assessing things such as problem identification and idea generation. Boosting creativity.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. The Beta approach will help you recruit, manage, and retain the kind of talent you and your organization need to profit today and tomorrow.”

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. The Beta approach will help you recruit, manage, and retain the kind of talent you and your organization need to profit today and tomorrow.” Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By taking employee input, creating planning committees, encouraging creativity, introducing team-building initiatives, and allowing spaces for communication and idea generation, employers can significantly contribute to holiday morale. Support local community projects or organize donation drives to give back during the holiday season.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Morning Star is one of the world's leading processors of tomatoes and one of the most progressive models of a self-managed enterprise. Challenge, and congratulations to our winners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. As you might expect, our studies have revealed that encouraging creativity can backfire if employees lack the resources, support, or mechanisms to develop and implement their ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In my work with employers (usually advising on work-family balance for fathers), I sense that many managers believe in giving more employees this kind of flexibility — allowing them to fashion the particular arrangements that work for them while minimizing disruption of the workplace. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. It's about information exchange, resource exchange, idea generation and on and on. There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. But you might say, "It's about why production will keep missing key deadlines unless we upgrade our workflow management software.". Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

In the late 80’s, Peter Drucker predicted that in the near future technology would play a central role in increasing the effectiveness of teams. Although he was right, teams have yet to experience the full benefits of technology. How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. Insight Center.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. Step One: Start with the idea generators 1. You’re great at focusing the journey and laying a course, especially when winds are uncertain. So how do you assemble a great team?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Now that technology allows us to work anywhere, on any device, work is something people do — not just a place to which they go. This shift demands that businesses manage and operate so that they can attract the right people, retain them, and ensure they can do their best work. Sponsor Content from GoToMeeting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. But no company today can rest on its laurels.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. The foundation of network technology is how the people we connect with think about the collaboration process. . . In addition to seating arrangements, Intuitive also values: .

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Management thinking is inherently faddish, but there are some favorite themes that never fall out of favor. Strange, then, that so many of our management processes, the ones that support innovation, are designed to avoid failure and to ignore it when it does happen. None of them involve idea-generation schemes.

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