Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Leadership is putting a face to management science. A good leader is an able manager. And an able manager is someone who can recruit, hire, train, and mentor. This preoccupation with acting more like a parent than a manager means that talent is not recognized, budgets go awry, and strategic alliances fail.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

that focuses on customers and innovation. It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. The HP Board of Directors has to be focused on prevention and good business practices to build a long term strategy. HP Has Decreasing Product Quality.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2024

Benefits: Early detection of potential health problems Improved medication management Reduced hospital readmission rates Telehealth Gone are the days when a doctor’s visit always required a trip to the clinic. As technology continues to evolve, we can expect to see even more innovative tools and applications emerge.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

Smart devices and wireless connections are now nearly everywhere and have already contributed immensely to the growth of the e-commerce industry. How is Ecommerce Transforming Logistics and Transportation Management? This is causing the industry to grow by leaps and bounds.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

In today’s world, cyber attackers are becoming more and more innovative, and cybersecurity is very challenging as it is more vulnerable now these days as businesses now opting for cloud services to reduce the risk of cyber attackers. Good password management. Use public wireless hot-spots very wisely and carefully.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 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. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. Novel subtlety and nuance can be wonderful but my innovation heart belongs to obvious. or "How can we push the innovation envelope?" This was obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

wireless service provider , is now adding the iPhone to its lineup. Verizon's main competitor and Apple's first partner AT&T, the number two provider, enjoyed a growth spurt advantage over Verizon in every quarter since the iPhone was introduced, according to Chetan Sharma , an independent wireless analyst cited by The New York Times.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

In three recent blog posts we looked at the innovation mindset in individuals, profiling game changers Jerry Buss , Peter Jackson , and Shantha Ragunathan. Innovators maintain a laser focus on outcomes , avoid getting caught in the activity trap , and proactively "expand the pie" to make an impact. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The old way was information management; the new way is information intelligence. The old way was cost management; the new way is driving business transformation and accelerating growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

For example, AT&T had to spend almost $18 billion in a single year to upgrade its wireless networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic. The vendors for telecom network management were paid only for the capacity utilized by Bharti Airtel, not for the equipment. European wireless carriers are negotiating deals in growing numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not rising costs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

They were all ignored by the wireless operator, who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages and by the crew, who were focused on breaking the speed record. Clay Christensen's work on disruptive innovation shows the power of David against Goliath, the mammal over the dinosaur, the startup over the incumbent.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. The record labels grumbled that Apple sucked the lion’s share of the profits out of the industry, but it was too late. for three years.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider. But they must learn it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. The world is coming apart in many interesting ways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

As I wrote about in Innovation X , when the team developing the second-generation Ford Taurus bought a Toyota Camry (with great difficulty) to try it out, it brought to light critical quality factors that significantly changed how the team approached its work. Encourage Competitive Use, Don't Punish It.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

To combat these pressing issues, a number of hospitals across the United States are trying new approaches to managing their complexity — and with their progress a new paradigm for hospital management may be taking shape. Do you have other thoughts or experiences about how hospitals can be managed more effectively?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies. Research & development Financial management'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

During a long and illustrious career that is far from over (you can read all about one of his most recent ventures — building the most direct fiber-optic connection between Chicago and New York – in Chapter One of Michael Lewis’s new book ), Barksdale has become a big believer in the value of the folksy aphorism as management tool.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. It didn't work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Second, wireless licenses were made flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Customer tracking data is typically sent to the location analytics vendor where it is analyzed and accessed via online dashboards that provide actionable data tailored to the needs of specific employees — from the store manager to the executive C-suite. Already, the scale of data collected by early adopters of this technology is staggering.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

But they will be used for "softer" disciplines too, like innovation and creativity. As one analyst sums up : "the company is.developing an entire wearable/detachable computing platform and ecosystem comprised of wireless sensing systems for monitoring.sports activity, athletic training, medicine, fitness and wellness in humans.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

We have identified five ways executives can adapt management and communication styles to engage Millennials and improve productivity and outcomes across the board: Create a deeply compelling vision of what the company or team is contributing to society. Train managers and supervisors to communicate openly, effectively, and frequently.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection. Weekly e-mails with detailed reports can also be set up, creating a comprehensive system of medication management. Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Sensors, embedded devices, and wearables are steadily becoming ubiquitous in the enterprise, generating huge amounts of data that, if not managed well, can easily become noise. Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation. Contextual insight. The interface will continue to be external for now, but that could change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Conducting limited and carefully managed trials will unearth the remaining engineering and policy obstacles to a smooth transition.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. When people sign up for Omada’s offering, they receive a wireless, digital bathroom scale, pedometer, resistance band, and tape measure. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

More companies have pledged to open their data, giving innovators everywhere the chance to mine that data and use it to drive better care. Manufacturers have been slow to embrace interoperability, which would allow health care technologies to share data with one another. In recent years, there has been movement to change that.

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