The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 12, 2020

When you view change—especially the disruptive kind—through the eyes of Situational Leadership ® , what you see is regression. Employees operating at moderate to high levels of Performance Readiness ® for most of the tasks that constitute their contribution “move to the right.”

Situational Leadership 64

Situational Leadership Incubator Uncertainty Energy 64

HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Setting good company culture examples is a task for the leaders of the organization to establish from the first day of operation. Microsoft Under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft has embraced a culture of inclusivity, innovation, and continuous learning. Good Work Culture Examples Lead by example, as the wise always say.

Examples 97

Examples Company Diversity Team Building 97

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. What we say is, long before Netflix showed up, long before any of these disruptives showed up, the leadership of these companies knows full well that there are technology disruptors that are on the horizon. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Open-book 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

That requires constant innovation, in both our products and our own operations. We’ve created an end-to-end electronic domain that connects all elements of product development – conceptualization, design and analysis, simulation and optimization, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operations and sustainment. Collaborate.

Operations 8

Operations Incubator Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own.

Globalization 18

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they need a process that operates with speed and urgency , and that helps innovators and other stakeholders to curate and prioritize problems, ideas, and technologies. And they count on well-intentioned, smart people sitting in a committee to decide which ideas are worth pursuing.

Process 15

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

Budgeting 15

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. TFA stands out as a prolific spawner of entrepreneurial leadership in education. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

Entrepreneur 17

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Innovation 16

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. .* Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001.

Gilbert 16

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

Incubator 9

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Bottom-up 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. Educate and Motivate Others. Change the Rules.

CEO 15

CEO Incubator Entrepreneur Supply Chain 15

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 10

Company Advertising Business Model Incubator 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. Evaluating leadership capital has always been a critical component of due diligence for deal teams.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary. In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. So we are left with a quandary.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Restructuring Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. Using these principles Intuit began driving design thinking deep into its culture and operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Products 8

Products Productivity Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Is innovation intended to improve and expand the existing business, or is it meant to redefine the company itself and the industry in which it operates? Innovation Leadership transitions' Be as adaptable in your approach as you will be when you work on specific ideas. That feels like a lot for 100 days, and it is.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A few years ago Brad Neuenhaus was invited to join a company that was being incubated out of a large teaching hospital in Boston. “There were a lot of operational changes taking place in order to scale the business,” he says. “In the end, it came down to my assessment of the likelihood of this incubator succeeding.”

How To 8

How To Incubator Due Diligence Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. Build it yourself. Building in-house is not for the faint of heart.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Short-term Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. An ingrained industrial mindset keeps things “within the yellow lines,” focused on controlling operations or managing safety.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Employees were invited to a meeting where leadership discussed its mobile business imperative. Doing so helps spread the value of innovation into areas responsible for the broader operating model. This cultural diffusion happens as a result of highlighting the underlying values tied to the success story (e.g.,

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. If you incubate an interesting function that starts to grow, move it somewhere else in the operational infrastructure. However, they are difficult for organizations to propose, prioritize, and fund. You’re there to be a catalyst. Start small.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly. Shared work spaces and other entrepreneurship communities and incubators, such as “1776” in Washington, D.C.,

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

CEOs complain that they don’t know where to get the talent, or they’re not finding a consulting firm that can walk them through the transformation end-to-end, or they have to satisfy Wall Street, or they don’t know how to incubate the change. These difficulties are real, but they must be overcome.

CEO 15

CEO Price Incubator Resistance 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

We currently operate in the era of ‘programmatic computing’, where data analysis involves heuristically searching for patterns in limited data sets, then performing operations on the result. From there, low hanging fruit opportunities can be incubated.

Positioning 150

Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150