Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This typically holds true for the highest-ranking and most dynamic slices of industry, whether financial services, professional sports, health care or high tech. The fundamental asymmetry, of course, is the presence of bonuses and an absence of clawbacks. Yes, the sales team was (ultimately) fired.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

Of course, before you can mark progress, people have to actually make progress. Most project review meetings, which involved top managers asking challenging questions of project team members, constructively shaped projects for the better. So the first step is to support progress every day, by creating a "climate of attention."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Agile Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. How did Bally Technologies do it? But while the foundational elements are the same, Bally Technologies uses them in a distinct way. Through an innovation excellence framework.

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Technology Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

First, the teams behind winning apps tend to be composed of the organizations' best techno-marketing talent, people with deep understanding of social media. Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Xavier’s new role, at least for the next year, was to lead a product development team in Monterrey. He arranged a meeting of his team and set out responsibilities. He arranged a meeting of his team and set out responsibilities. A smart manager must integrate the technical and the personal in order to motivate his team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Israel is home to one of the most vibrant tech startup clusters in the world — why? helped to create the nation’s tech industry. ( helped to create the nation’s tech industry. (

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators. Toyota was prepared to help its best suppliers scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. These questions, of course, aren’t hypothetical.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Clients often hire Open Innovation companies like ours when their research and development teams can''t get past — or maybe over is a better word — the way they have always looked, and where they have always looked for solutions. So we helped express the need and craft a technical brief in a way that cast a wider net.

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Development Team Review Innovation Open Innovation Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Of course, no company intentionally fritters away critical resources on under-used or ineffective systems and business changes. Here are 3 things that can make a difference: Perform regular post-implementation reviews. One financial services company we know reviews the viability of the business case at every major stage gate.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Project 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

As Carlos Guerrero walked to the whiteboard where the app development team had gathered for its daily stand-up, he noticed that Larry Berman was absent again. ” Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

This integration created a new team of direct reports for him. Over the course of the integration, he worked on creating the psychological safety for his team to discuss the challenges of working together and of the integration overall. They did pulse checks to assess their alignment and where there was work to do.

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Change Underperforming Technical Team Agile Development Team Review 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. Global Teams Should Have Office Visits, Not Offsites. It made sense.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Of course, the pricing is always what signals the problem, but behind that it is how the innovation process is set up. However, our experience has been that [when a product fails] it’s not a technology problem or a pure R&D problem — it is really around marketing, customer segments, and of course pricing.

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Survey Innovation Processes Marketing Course 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

The answer lies in focusing the entire team around a problem statement. Most software development teams today are feature-focused. A constant stream of qualitative and quantitative feedback was fed to the team and each two-week cycle provided the opportunity for course correction, improvement, or evolution.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

From that work, Harmony’s team would then create a new design vocabulary and apply it to QuickBooks Online and every other product Intuit offers. At the time, the technology was not up to the task of translating the desktop environment to the browser, so the experience suffered. Klaus Kaasgaard and Dan Wernikoff during a design review.

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