IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. Now, how about these?

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 21, 2020

However, by developing an innovation strategy that anticipates a downturn, you can help your enterprise weather the storm and even uncover lucrative ways to gain a competitive edge. It’s estimated that a loss of more than $2 trillion in world-wide economic growth occurred between the second quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 9, 2009

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. Andrew connects this understanding with real-life IA design issues such as Twitter’s syntax or Facebook’s Beacon and challenges us to think more carefully about how we shape context in the digital dimension. But do we love them?

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. Most marketing people will immediately view designers as allies who will promote a customer-centric point of view. It is quite long, so we’ve broken it into several sections. Many thanks to Ms. Understanding the Business.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 23, 2017

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Work is organized by programs and projects and done by purpose-built teams. Sense and sort signals – strong and weak.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Research has shown that innovation is mostly linked to the Schumpetarian view: innovative companies are more likely to be started by Schumpetarian-type founders (Samuelsson & Davidsson, 2009), are more likely to be started by engineering students (Ilozor et al., Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? Shane, 2003).

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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. We launched a Culture Committee to help address the specific, emergency needs of our team. So we added more training and developed incentive programs. Next on the list was investing in design. I've never seen that kind of fallout.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

The first sign of trouble emerged in 2009, shortly after GFT launched, when it completely missed the swine flu pandemic. In Science , a team of Harvard-affiliated researchers published their findings that GFT has over-estimated the prevalence of flu for 100 out of the last 108 weeks; it’s been wrong since August 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Indeed there is a good deal of evidence that using such individual incentives actually creates self-interest, lowers trust, results in poor teamwork, and diminishes commitment. They must be consciously designed to your business’ values and cultural objectives. Whole Foods Market’s purpose is to promote healthier eating.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009. ” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS. The company’s stated purpose is to “help people walk through walls.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

For example, an employee who exceeds his targets but treats his team members poorly should not be rewarded in an organization that values teamwork. Organizations often assume that a promotion should involve giving star performers responsibility for managing more people and developing — rather than just executing — strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. ” Before long, Lane left GE to join medical device firm Medtronic and within months he was leading the engineering team commercializing an “adaptive cruise control” system to partially automate insulin delivery.

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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? He was looking for an outside team to help Kuoni approach this question, but there were a few ground rules.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It increased R&D spending from 7-8% of revenue before 2009 to 11-12% of revenue starting in 2010, and maximized the return on that increased investment. It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Customer experience creators.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Congress, however, wisely left the internet out of that experiment , letting fixed and mobile broadband access markets to develop largely on their own. This has helped contribute to the development of innovative Internet-based businesses , where 11 of the top 15 Internet businesses, most started in the last decade, are U.S.

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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

Apple has refashioned consumer experience with its iconic branding, stylish design and a diverse product range, its own retail stores, and important partnerships with the competition. The climb has been quite an uphill task for the iconic toy designer. If you thought GameCube was bad, Wii U was worse. Everything is awesome!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Three prior CIA directors, and countless senior officials, operations officers, analysts, technical experts, and support teams carried out this campaign, developing important pieces of intelligence along the way. But when we arrived at Langley in early 2009, there were no solid leads on Bin Laden’s whereabouts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

The internal machinery of the National Football League is designed to guard against the possibility of teams like the New England Patriots. Over time, weak teams improve and strong ones decline. In theory, supreme triumph and humbling defeat are shared as democratically as possible among the 32 NFL teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Such collaboration can take many shapes.

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