The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, Research in Motion (RIM) was a major player in a worldwide market that sold about one billion cell phones annually (the term “smartphone” was new). Would it have a new product development or innovation process? Would that company invest in R&D? Conduct market research?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. There are few barriers to spontaneous collaboration among technical teams.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? For example, Spotify offers personalized playlists reflecting the cultural music of users’ heritage, based on their DNA test (provided by Ancestry). What if no staff was required?

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? What if you were charged a fee for delivering a bad customer experience? For example, Spotify offers personalized playlists reflecting the cultural music of users’ heritage, based on their DNA test (provided by Ancestry). What if no staff was required?

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Artificial Inteligence Data Trends Underperforming Technical Team 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

But the bad news is that they have to learn a new improvement approach — one that can conflict with others that have worked in the past. In 2009, Grainger's senior management team decided to reflect on their history with improvement initiatives before deploying a Lean-based continuous improvement system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

And as for us, we had a reputation for poor customer service and dated floorplans. Hearing about Southwest's corporate culture inspired me to start reinventing ours. We launched a Culture Committee to help address the specific, emergency needs of our team. So we added more training and developed incentive programs.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2016

Nokia’s CEO was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2007, with the headline “Nokia: A billion customer and counting. I started to get communications from the company that felt like really bad news. Chris Zook and James Allen have also recently tackled this issue their recent HBR article “ Reigniting Growth.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. The same is true for any team or organization. Building Balanced Cultures. It is the driver of focus and consistency.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development. He quickly recognized that he had to institute a new strategy and culture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

While at least one of your goals ought to involve developing an area of weakness, Weintraub cautions against getting hung up on self-improvement. If, for instance, your goal is to reduce your micro-managerial tendencies, explain to your team that you will be delegating more often. Focus on the positive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS. But the pursuit of those performance goals may drive bad decisions and harm the company’s long-term prospects. Doug Conant got his senior team aligned around a both/and outlook using positive peer pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

You and your founding team used to feel like members of the same small tribe; now you’re working with unfamiliar layers of staff hired from companies whose culture is not like yours. And in 2007 the right leader arrived: Kevin Sheehan, a veteran executive with experience in the car-rental and entertainment industries.

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Company Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

How many times have you had a strategy meeting that gathered a smart, enthusiastic team to generate interesting ideas and debate their merits, yet after the meeting… nothing… much… happened? Masala has been at Kuoni, a leading travel services company, since 2007, and is known for frequently shaking things up.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Perhaps he’s in a bad mood because it’s been raining for a week straight where he is. A 2007 study by Syracuse’s Kristin Byron showed what we all know intuitively or have come to learn: using e-mail generally increases the likelihood of conflict and miscommunication. Consider cultural differences.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Clearly, these firms have found something that allows them to be resilient in both good times and bad. Q: What are some of the institutional barriers to developing an outside-in orientation?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Entrepreneurship is a natural act, a normal aspect of the human condition that spans geography, culture, and history. Even better. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Moreover, they were more likely to report engaging in team citizenship behavior, going beyond the call of duty, picking up the slack for an absent colleague — all indirect effects of feeling more included in their workgroups. In a survey of more than 1500 workers from Australia, China, Germany, India, Mexico, and the U.S.,

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Engagement Report 15

Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Was their size and rapid growth diluting their design-driven culture? Intuit had developed its mobile platform late in the game, creating an inconsistent experience. In 2007, Scott Cook had another important insight: He realized that he’d never be Steve Jobs. Hanson, in turn, put together a team of nine people to help her.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

I interviewed more than 50 executives and mid-level managers who had worked for HP in the 2004-2007 timeframe, many of whom reported to Fiorina and subsequently worked with her successor, Mark Hurd. One of her moves was to buy Compaq, which had a fast moving “Internet” culture — “aim, fire, fire, re-aim, fire.”

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Underperforming Technical Team Culture Disruption Report 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In my view, a down economy is the best time to build a sales team. I joined HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company, as the fourth employee and first salesperson in 2007. My role was to scale the sales team. As an executive team, we were rattled. My answer is no. Life was good. Would budget freezes slow down sales?

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