Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans.

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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

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. At the same time, the marketplace has become so fiercely competitive—and investors so demanding—that few are willing to take a flyer on an unproven technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink. Cambridge, U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

The term “digital firms” refers to those companies that from their inception have focused on digital services enabled by the internet and related technologies, including mobile. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. ineffective innovation strategies. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

Why the Pharmaceutical Industry Is Booming in Japan. Philips is teaming with Japanese doctors to join a “hospital to home” solution that emphasizes getting people out of expensive care facilities and back home, where they want to be. Conditional early approval expanded to cover innovative medical devices in July 2017.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In effect, the VCs at Nadathur Holdings serve as the executive team for a miniature healthcare innovation ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Buyers used the salesman’s help to evaluate what products to purchase, especially for new technologies like clocks and sewing machines. Over the years, innovations in distribution, media, and technology have enabled buyers to use non-sales force channels for various steps of their buying journey.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. Medical care is one of the few sectors where lack of teamwork might actually cost lives, yet physicians are not trained to be team players.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

5th Place: SmarterShade from Notre Dame created an elegant technology that adjusts the tint on windows, saving on building cooling costs by preventing heat gain. TNG Pharmaceuticals from University of Louisville developed a vaccine for a parasite that strikes cattle, costing the dairy and beef industry over $1 billion a year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. Find Pivots.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Technological innovation accounted for almost half of U.S. economic growth over the past 50 years, but the country's standing as the world's indisputable innovation leader is now at risk. They are also poorly equipped to work effectively in a dynamic team setting where the flow of ideas is open and constant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We studied Omada’s program as part of our Harvard Medical School initiative to identify and share knowledge about innovative approaches to major health challenges that primary care providers play the lead in treating. This group dynamic cultivates a social network that offers real-time feedback, support, and accountability.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

Breaking down functional silos is key to everything from encouraging communication to building valuable connections to sparking innovation. arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). Among the first 100 participants: BIPI's CEO, who was matched with a young member of one of the brand marketing teams. "A

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Advances in digital technology and their use in organizations carry huge promise to empower people at all levels. For example, a study of a multinational pharmaceutical company revealed that leaders in its U.S. This allows CEO Satya Nadella to hear early warning signals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. The future, he argued, lies with institutional forms based on networks, "an open, fluid team of teams". Business would change the rules of the game. Breakthrough Science.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

We live in a world in which amplified individuals — people empowered by technologies and the collective intelligence of their social networks — can do things that previously only a large organization could. In the process we learn from these external innovators, extend our network, and engender a lot of goodwill.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. Some firms have managed it, in healthcare and in other arenas — think of QuintilesIMS as a source of pharmaceutical sales data, Nielsen as the authority on TV viewer habits, and the U.S. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Sponsored by Optum. demographics.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. To start, create a diverse ad hoc team of 15–18 people from throughout the company to work together for about six months. paul Garbett for HBR. In five years, the revenue shortfall would be significant.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

If that''s what your team can achieve without you, just imagine what they might do with your support. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo''s CEO, ended the company''s work-from-home policy to foster a more collaborative, innovative environment. He explained that individual contributors would select which of four teams they would like to be in.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. The innovation consulting firm Innosight often refers to “$50 million in 5 years” as a reasonable target for a brand new business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Nearly all contemporary organizations are increasing their use of talent from the outside—by engaging individuals, teams, and even firms in non-traditional work relationships and alternate forms of employment. Leaders who embrace these changes and respond effectively to these challenges build more competitive organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

When markets or technologies change, it often requires entire segments of the value network to be reimagined. Technical teams all over the globe are building powerful, context-aware software to predict our needs. The development of these technologies is setting the stage for machines to think. billion.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

As an example, a large utility company created a number of different teams role playing competitors and regulators. Each team’s task was both to decide on pricing, investment, M&A and integration priorities and to experiment with new business models while anticipating and reacting to the actions of competitors and regulators.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Overall, it is a messy picture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The emergence of big data, as well as advancements in data science approaches and technology, is providing pharmaceutical companies with an opportunity to gain novel insights that can enhance and accelerate drug development. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. In the pharmaceutical industry, the monitoring process can be incredibly elaborate. vincent tsui FOR HBR. Since World War II, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Building a scenario based on the imagined future state of these drivers, the experts painted a picture of a world in which investor-funded technology companies would transform the traditional life sciences industry. Innovation National competitiveness Education Healthcare Pharmaceuticals North America'

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. This helps keep the team’s efforts focused. In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. When complaints to elected officials started mounting from property developers dissatisfied with delays, Girard pulled together a team from many divisions to address the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. So where is the link to health care?

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