Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Persistent growth, profit, ROI and NPV are the obvious measures, At least for the big stuff. Innovation activities simply for the sake of doing something without context and insight from the measure may be in fact very misleading.

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NPV Innovation Metrics ROI 99

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. One of the many articles circling back to this topic of late revisited the still-common use of NPV hurdles in investment decisions.)

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” Next time you're deciding about a big investment, NPV can help you make a more informed decision. Related Video. The Refresher: Net Present Value.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term NPV 12

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50