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’.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Marketing Stakeholder Interview. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. How large is the engineering team assigned to the project, and what are their skills? Many thanks to Ms.

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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. Functions are partitioned into R&D, Marketing, Operations and other disciplines. Sense and sort signals – strong and weak.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 10, 2016

Among others we use our own developed assessment tool InnoSurvey TM and our innovation database which today provide us with benchmark data from more than 1000 corporate measurements done over the last few years. You can read more about this in e.g. Mr. Jason Lunday’s featured column about Typical Weaknesses of Codes of Conduct; [link].

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Innovation 360

MAY 10, 2016

Among others we use our own developed assessment tool InnoSurvey TM and our innovation database which today provide us with benchmark data from more than 1000 corporate measurements done over the last few years. You can read more about this in e.g. Mr. Jason Lunday’s featured column about Typical Weaknesses of Codes of Conduct; [link].

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

A marketing revolution is under way and nowhere is that more visible than in the CMO’s transforming role. In this edited interview, Weed describes a new breed of marketing organization, and the CMO’s increasingly strategic role. Sustainable growth is consumer-demand led growth, and that’s the day job of marketers.

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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. Whole Foods Market’s purpose is to promote healthier eating.

Engagement 15

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

You need to choose who to hire for the sales team, and how to continually develop sales team skills and knowledge. Compared to marketing, the number of good books and academic articles in the sales force space is woefully inadequate. Leaders invested to develop better measures of customer potential.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. At the same time, the New York company launched a Silicon Valley start-up with a separate mission, management team, and business model while leveraging vital assets of the parent.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. For the most part, they haven't yet developed the skills necessary to build such genuine engagement. Here are some of the possibilities for Facebook advocacy apps.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Since 2009 we have interviewed and surveyed 181 executives who run PE-owned companies, as well as eight to 15 people who work with each of these 181 executives (supervisors, board members, director reports, and others). Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. Too many CEOs fall short of these skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Though governments around the world have mounted massive campaigns to address poverty, expensive (and poor) healthcare, crime, and ineffective education, daunting challenges remain. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. The same is true of everyone on his team.

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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.

Technology 9

Technology Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System 9

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? The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. A Different Approach.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions.

Development Team Review 8

Development Team Review Company Underperforming Technical Team Groups 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

There are some key areas in which people aren’t satisfied, specifically around growth and development opportunities and recognition. There’s a huge gulf in this area, and there are similar ones around training, development, and advancement. That paints a very different picture. What’s going on here?

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Survey Engagement Underperforming Technical Team Report 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. As a result, the U.S. based, with the rest coming from China. of all U.S.

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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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Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Inteligence Competition Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

But AMP’D underpriced its services and regularly extended credit to bad-risk customers. The management team at Rodan + Fields, today a $250 million skincare products company, understood this risk. In late 2009, CEO Lori Bush was searching for a way to raise the productivity of the company’s sales force.

Strategy 10

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

Lafley and Bob McDonald worked as a team during the 2000s; when Lafley scored his major successes, McDonald was by his side as vice chairman and then COO. McDonald became CEO in the 2009 recession, a time when the middle class continued to shrink. Of course a company should never neglect its largest developed markets.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas. Take the iPod for example.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

By that time, the financial crisis was going full throttle, although things had been relatively calm in our market. As if the real news isn’t bad enough, unimaginably crazy stories start getting passed around. I called my senior team into an emergency meeting and told them, “This is bad. Really bad.

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with the concept of creative destruction , the intangible but daunting market force where an invention that is vital takes out that which has become defunct, and the nascent replaces the established. Can you imagine a good reason to continue two separate editorial teams?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. 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. Everyone in the industry felt the impact.

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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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hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

It was close to bankruptcy in the late 1990s with rivals BM, Dell and HP eating up the market. The company had a paltry 4 percent market share and losses of over $1 billion. Market expansion was what Apple needed, not a sizable chunk of the PC market. Mac’s unique features were shadowed by the premium price.

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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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