IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 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 management consultant giant McKinsey and Co.

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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 24, 2009

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. See the Slideshare IA Summit 2009 page for up-to-the-minute lists of available presentations. Boxes and Arrows captured many of the main conference sessions ( see schedule ). The remaining Summit sessions will be published in the next two weeks.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

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. For example, one client told us they had already sunk millions of dollars into a particular system as the basis of their development. Engineering stakeholders.

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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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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].

Leadership 40

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Can you imagine a good reason to continue two separate editorial teams? Can you imagine the same editorial team producing two presumably different publications? Try a balance sheet too weak to support internal investment after emerging from a prior bankruptcy with private equity imposed debt and mounting unfunded pension obligations.

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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. Additionally, Nate identifies the key considerations when designing a mobile ethnographic study, indicating how technological developments in the future might be used to improve upon current methods.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 7, 2013

If they’ve just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on market research that doesn’t provide the answers you need, you also have the potential to make them look bad. The more brand-focused questions are things a visual or industrial designer will particularly want to know, though the answers can prove useful to the whole team.

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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].

Leadership 40

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. The result is slow and poor execution. Cisco's efforts underscore the key challenge of collaboration — how hard it is to get it right. Companies usually fall into one of two traps.

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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

MAY 24, 2011

With the rise of teams, work today is more social than ever. With less time being spent in "real time" with others, our social circuitry may be less developed than we need to get work done efficiently. Instead of collaborating under pressure, this team argued fiercely, inhibiting possible solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2011

In fall 2009, however, I had the opportunity to teach in an undergraduate program for a local university. Likewise, when an employee fails to work productively, he or she hurts team performance. John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership development consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2015

So, how can you develop this muscle? To break him of this bad habit, Su instructed him to use a “listening stick.” Some of us were taught that it was weak to listen, that we need to speak up,” says Su. Do: Take an honest look at both your good and bad habits. What the Experts Say. Further Reading.

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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. So we developed a concept called "Life Spaces" for our new homes. Not good enough.

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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

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. Barry-Wehmiller’s purpose is to enable all team members to have meaningful and fulfilling jobs.

Engagement 15

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some of the worst corporate disasters of the past two decades were heralded by whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins raised the red flag internally at Enron, Cynthia Cooper let management know of major accounting problems at WorldCom, and Matthew Lee brought problems to his management team at Lehman Brothers. What this means.

Company 15

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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

JULY 21, 2014

When Paul arrived at Unilever in 2009, I was running the global laundry and home care business and also the water business around the world. I set off to do two things initially: First, develop a plan that would define the strategy for doubling our business while increasing our positive social impact and reducing our environmental footprint.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

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. Companies should have their fingers on the pulse of the start-up community to spot potentially transformational development early.

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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. Soon after, when Khan began tutoring his niece in mathematics while working at a hedge fund, he hit upon the idea of developing short video tutorials on YouTube.

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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. Leaders invested to develop better measures of customer potential. This makes an effective sales force essential for driving top-line performance. Sales force dynamics are complex and poorly understood.

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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.

Company 12

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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

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

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

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

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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

They are partnering with an Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston or in Philadelphia, co-developing products in San Francisco’s Entrepreneurship-in-Residence program, or deploying some of the more than $430 million invested into civic-tech in the last two years. Of course, that’s not all bad.

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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.

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