Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

And because companies themselves continue to feel the pressures of all sorts of disruptive forces: competition, more fickle consumers, the adoption of technology, the beating drum of demanding investors. Because the jobs of yesterday and today will not likely all exist tomorrow.

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Incubator Skills Education Training 237

Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Stephen Cook is Chief Commercial Officer, Group Technology at BP since 2017, committed to commercial deals in technology-related business development, also cultivating and delivering capability in technology strategy, and intelligence. Can you describe the missions of your entity, the Group Technology at BP?

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Technology Energy Industry Commitment 95

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Susanna Camp is a journalist specializing in emerging technology. The city was buzzing with excitement, with startups popping up everywhere, and events and pitch nights hosted by new incubators hoping to attract investors. That’s why accelerators and incubators and tech ecosystems are so vital to this iterative process.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Open-book Learning-by-Doing 112

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Unclean drinking water can incubate some pretty scary diseases, like E. Meier on 10 Tips To Take Your Leadership To The Next Level Amanda on The Indescribable Impact Of The Index Card Leanne Golan on Meeting Planner/Organizer Worksheet – Version 2.0! coli, salmonella, cholera and hepatitis A.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Open-book 60

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. In fact, America owes much of its recent growth, technological innovation, and socioeconomic progress, to inept managers. Not really.

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Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 20

LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

We have Denise Brosseau, founder of the Thought Leadership Lab here on LDRLB. It would be really boring if we had a podcast talking about a podcast, so let’s talk about the book instead, and let’s talk about Thought Leadership Lab. Thought leadership does not happen overnight. DENISE: (laughs).

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Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

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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Company Business Incubator Incubator Disruptive Innovation 102

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In the tech startup world, technology is important for success, but it does not disproportionately determine winners and losers. Two companies can invent similar technologies; one will win and the other will lose. Focusing on technology supremacy alone is a model for failure. You can't resell that CD, legally.

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Licensing Software Incubator Price 19

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.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, one of us built a curation process to help technology solutions to be deployed rapidly. As the head of the U.S.

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Process Innovation Incubator Committee 15

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. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture. Directness.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

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.

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 16

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.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 17

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 11

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. An ideal response involves a portfolio and pipeline of growth strategies — again, started early enough that they have time to iterate, incubate, and grow. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift. .* Don't go it alone.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Although well-intentioned, these programs often have the unintended consequences of benefiting the wrong businesses, favoring sub-optimal technology, and creating market distortion. Right now incubators such as Y Combinator and TechStars are performing this task for the best existing entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Licensing Telecommunications Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

For decades companies like ours have tried and failed to solve collaboration problems using technology or policy changes to mandate behavior. As an added bonus, it has become an incubator for thousands of talented minds to create, innovate, and engage in new initiatives that include future product and service development.

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Globalization Incubator Incentives Advertising 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Our job is to deliver the cutting-edge technologies they require. And, especially in recent years, as prolonged global economic challenges have rippled through the aerospace industry, we also need to make those technologies more affordable. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

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Operations Incubator Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). This process has been incubated successfully at SAP, where teams have compressed the product development process into three months for some new releases.

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Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

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. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

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. The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Restructuring Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2018

“Our company appreciates the progress we have seen under Prime Minister Abe’s leadership.” Underscoring this concept, Bayer plans to open a incubation lab for life science startups in Kobe later this year to promote partnerships with universities and local research organizations. chairman and CEO David A.

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Pharmaceuticals Health Care Industry Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. ” Integrating with the Mother Ship.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. For most established players, the technology and skill gaps are intimidating, and it take years of effort to close them. For example, JPMorgan Chase has a “residency” program for startups. Build it yourself.

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Real Estate Business Model Short-term Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The first was the difficulty in creating a set of metrics that are aligned with what senior leadership actually cares about. ” Putting a number on that understanding of new markets and technologies — whether it makes sense for one’s employer to enter them, and how — is difficult. Alignment can take a while.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g., Can the elephant dance again?

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

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? Some of these might be very specific initiatives, like identifying product-market fit for a new technology. Innovation Leadership transitions'

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Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Employees were invited to a meeting where leadership discussed its mobile business imperative. While most companies reward those who make a direct contribution to technology or product innovation, the best approach involves recognizing anyone who makes a significant contribution, regardless of the type of innovation.

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Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 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.

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CEO Price Incubator Resistance 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Ultimately, it is strategy rather than technology that will drive value creation. From there, low hanging fruit opportunities can be incubated. The transformative path from incubation to integration must include leadership, culture and organizational change considerations.

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Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. It means that more learning will happen in teams, and on platforms where training can be delivered any time, any place, at the user’s convenience.

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