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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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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What Xerox PARC Learned About Executing on Open Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years.

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Why Some Digital Companies Should Delay Profitability for as Long as They Can

Harvard Business Review

When your product can become more valuable to your customers over time, the way you prioritize building features and harvesting profits within a business needs to change. This has led to high levels of AWS specific investment from innovators like CloudHealth Technologies, Qubole, Mapbox, and the like. The Refresher: Net Present Value.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Traditional companies therefore rely on two strategies.

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Rethinking Valuation So You Don't Miss a Good Deal

Harvard Business Review

Horizon 3 (H3) represents opportunities for future growth that may take the form of new products, services, capabilities, and perhaps extensions into non-adjacencies that show great promise but are highly uncertain. Since the Three Horizons represent different levels of uncertainty, they need to be managed and valued differently.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

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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