HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Microsoft Under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft has embraced a culture of inclusivity, innovation, and continuous learning. Netflix Known for its culture of freedom and responsibility, Netflix emphasizes trust in its employees and offers a unique approach to leadership and decision-making. The benefits are innumerable.

Examples 97

Examples Company Diversity Team Building 97

LDRLB

APRIL 10, 2014

During an organization’s start-up days, it’s much easier to strike up conversations with the market since there’s not much to lose. A different bank, for example, recently created an incubator where early-stage ideas could be seen and worked on by employees only. Innovation Leadership innovation kaplan market research prototyping'

Innovation 119

Innovation Kaplan Banking Early Adopters 119

Jason Womack

MARCH 25, 2011

Last Tuesday, I had a great dinner with a new friend just outside of Boston, founder of Elite Leadership Solutions: Bob Maitland. During our conversation, he told me about the business incubator program at Hannah Grimes , here in Keene, NH. Thanks for takin' a risk to meet a new friend, but I gotta ask : Why?".

Business Incubator 145

Business Incubator Incubator Education Globalization 145

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

Because the culture at Geneca encourages personal and professional development and there was buy-in from the leadership team, the preconditions for innovation already were in place. Market Analysis and Customers. Marketing Strategy. We’d look to the incubator to further sponsor ideas originating from Genecians.

Innovation 130

Innovation Incubator Brand Document 130

Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

In Jon Mertz’s new book, Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders , Jon talks about Soul Sparks: “Soul sparks are those small ignitions of inspiration that fan into big changes, new directions, or fresh works. MED tried to grow into other emerging markets, but no viable business model emerged.

Mentor 70

Mentor Incubator Open-book Tools 70

Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

In Jon Mertz’s new book, Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders , Jon talks about Soul Sparks: “Soul sparks are those small ignitions of inspiration that fan into big changes, new directions, or fresh works. MED tried to grow into other emerging markets, but no viable business model emerged.

Mentor 70

Mentor Incubator Open-book Innovation 70

LDRLB

MAY 23, 2012

A different bank, for example, recently created an incubator where early-stage ideas could be seen and worked on by employees only. Through rapid prototyping, the bank was able to bring a mobile banking application to market in just 60 days (versus the typical 12-18 months), and at approximately one-tenth of the cost.

Innovation 141

Innovation Kaplan Banking Incubator 141

LDRLB

MAY 23, 2012

A different bank, for example, recently created an incubator where early-stage ideas could be seen and worked on by employees only. Through rapid prototyping, the bank was able to bring a mobile banking application to market in just 60 days (versus the typical 12-18 months), and at approximately one-tenth of the cost.

Innovation 88

Innovation Kaplan Banking Incubator 88

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

It’s hard to imagine a large company without a marketing department or division, yet less than 50 years ago marketing as a business function, profession, and department did not exist. The same is true of innovation today. But this innovation division can’t be siloed off from the rest of the business.

Incubator 9

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets. Solution exploration and hypothesis testing: The ideas that pass through the prioritization filter enter an incubation process like I-Corps, the system adopted by all U.S.

Process 14

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. Therefore, bad leadership — or, if you prefer, incompetent management — is a major source of entrepreneurship. Does this imply that we should hope for more incompetent leadership in the future? Because most managers are simply unbearable.

Leadership 17

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

Making these shifts requires increased attention to organizational governance around three domains: talent, capability , and leadership. To focus that attention and transform the companies in their portfolios, PE firms are establishing a new role that we call a leadership capital partner (LCP).

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2018

Japan remains the world’s second-biggest pharmaceuticals market, behind only the United States and China. The Japanese market also is expected to grow annually. The lessons learned there will be critical as the population grows older in many other markets. Read More from the Government of Japan. chairman and CEO David A.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Health Care Industry Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. To get this broad exposure, managers were given a variety of functional roles, eventually assuming leadership for a small business unit.

Management 15

Management P&L Incubator Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Though we enjoy writing about dropout tech legends, most times their success is catalyzed by others — they came up with the ideas and the investors provided the leadership and the non-tech factors (such as pricing models, branding, and promotions, among others) that propelled them to stardom. Most times, those people are not techies.

Licensing 16

Licensing Software Incubator Automotive 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

CEO 14

CEO Incubator Entrepreneur Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

For now, too many companies are still approaching the innovation challenge in a piecemeal fashion, a web-based suggestions box here, an awards program there, and a corporate incubator over there, somewhere. The innovation process is in need of some innovation itself.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

I still remember when Steve Jobs was featured in business school case studies as an example of bad leadership style. Coming out of Peru, you’ll find Kola Real, formed during a coup d’état in 1988, not exactly an ideal environment for business incubation. Companies and venture capitalists chase hot markets. Noura Al Kaabi.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

In our work at Change Logic, we’re finding again and again that established leadership practices, corporate cultures and identities, and organizational structures are far bigger obstacles to successful innovation than whether or not you can train a small and talented group to identify and prove market traction of a minimum viable offering.

Company 8

Company Advertising Business Model Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market. KKR, BlackRock, Blackstone) became publicly traded holding companies exploiting capital markets to expand their reach.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

New markets are created. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. But innovation at scale seems to be within reach of many more companies than might succeed in creating brand new markets. Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing.

Innovation 9

Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance. So we are left with a quandary.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Restructuring Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. In itself, that's a sign that cities will become greener, as social entrepreneurs, supported by mayors, promote urban agriculture.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We had it all — strong capital markets, rich natural resources, unparalleled higher education, and geographic separation from two devastating wars. Although well-intentioned, these programs often have the unintended consequences of benefiting the wrong businesses, favoring sub-optimal technology, and creating market distortion.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Licensing Telecommunications Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. Many tech companies have experimented with giving employees unstructured time to explore new ideas such as LinkedIn’s InCubator, Apple’s Blue Sky and Microsoft’s Garage.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. The most widely used metric among our respondents, for instance, was revenue being generated by new products or services over the course of their first few years in the market. Alignment can take a while. The vision thing. The result?

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Here are the ones that struck us most: Lace audacity with grit.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Recently, for instance, DuPont India's entire Indian leadership completed an immersion program in hinterland India with guidance from MART , a rural marketing consultancy. Dr. Prasad Kaipa is a CEO Coach in Silicon Valley and a senior research fellow at the Centre for Leadership, Innovation, and Change at the Indian School of Business.

Business Model 15

Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Do executives expect you to establish and incubate a growth businesses, act as a coach to existing teams, or focus on establishing a culture of innovation so that new ideas emerge organically? Watts also suggests zeroing in on the adjacencies that have the potential to shape your market. Innovation Leadership transitions'

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This significant breakthrough in the organization’s operating model and value network facilitates the achievement of growth in a new market, disrupting the entrenched players. This usually requires incubation and protection of a new venture in an autonomous unit. Disruptive Innovation.

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

As some of you will remember, I headed a start-up called HCL Comnet in 1993, which incubated the idea of remote infrastructure management services. Entrepreneurship Leadership' Each phase of my career offered different challenges, successes, and lessons, but my most exhilarating moments were undoubtedly during the start-up phases.

Succession 8

Succession Incubator Price Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. Never confuse charisma with leadership. In the 21st century only IBM's Sam Palmisano has done so. They listen as well as they speak.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed. We organized these initiatives around small venture units, incubating them separately (and far away) from existing businesses.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8