Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This blog was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities , a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. But did you ever see it as the central metaphor for what truly innovative organizations must do? And using net-present-value estimates for "beginning" ideas is nuts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Since the Three Horizons represent different levels of uncertainty, they need to be managed and valued differently. The higher level of uncertainty associated with H2 and H3 necessitates an updated valuation methodology that takes into account more than the net present value (NPV) of the target.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

This has led to high levels of AWS specific investment from innovators like CloudHealth Technologies, Qubole, Mapbox, and the like. That ecosystem investment reinforces the value proposition and drives more developer adoption. The Refresher: Net Present Value. So is Facebook. So is Google. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. Yet, despite their stated enthusiasm, hospitals have been notoriously slow to adopt digital innovations. health care system.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

In these circumstances, strategies that generate faster growth create more value for most companies than those that improve profit margins. The Refresher: Net Present Value. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

And, the misunderstood poem helps to highlight how innovation-seeking executives need to reframe the word risk. Most readers assume Frost’s poem is hopeful, describing the value of the rugged individualism that has long served as an American hallmark. Encouraging risk taking, therefore, can help to boost innovation.

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