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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
slow to change, and fraught with obstacles to learning. We describe “strategy-as-learning” to contrast with the traditional concept of “strategy-as-planning.” Practicing the work of organizational strategy as a learning process implies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
flash of creative insight, an Aha! moment in the mind of a genius. People apparently prefer to believe in the rugged individualism of discovery, perhaps because they rarely get to see the sausage-making process behind every breakthrough... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
But with few exceptions, organizational structure has failed to keep up with other market-fueled technological innovation. As a result, a lot of companies are stuck in a structure rut, and aren’t operating as smoothly as they could be. “We have this sort of binge diet... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
they're going after do a better job at picking fertile places and understanding which markets can be successfully attacked. Sometimes the entrepreneur can conceive of a compelling market, but in fact can't get there. So there is an View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
team. They will be responsible for designing and maintaining the business continuity and disaster recovery management plan, ensuring a robust and effective response to potential disasters. Process: Maintaining the plan iteratively and... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
authors also teamed to write The Magic of Innovation, published in the European Business Review earlier this year. A Magical Process Thomke maintains that innovative managers looking to create successful new products or services can... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired direction. Repeat this View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
succeed in that context. The "graduates" of this school would have finely honed operational skills in managing quality programs, process improvement teams, and cost-control efforts. Even the most senior manufacturing executives... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
iteration to resolve into a problem that can be addressed in a predictable, rules-based way. Diagnostic abilities are the technological enablers of disruption in health care. Precise definition of the problem, in this and in every... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
relationships when it instead primarily encourages newcomers to express their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that initial socialization focused on personal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
learned, take action based upon these lessons, then adapt and iterate and react to what they observed." Enter FIELD. First proposed at the end of 2010, the idea was so enthusiastically embraced by incoming Dean Nitin Nohria that he... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
direction, Radiometer began an intensive program of process improvements using the Danaher Business System (DBS), an iterative tool system and company culture that sought to continuously improve the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
relationships and their core capabilities and expertise. Given the complexity and uncertainty, sequencing and timing of the projects needed to execute these new opportunities is critical. So too is the ability to establish a process of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
differently they each think about the characters' choices. They hear arguments and interpretations that cause them to challenge their own views. And by repeatedly going through a process of analysis, interpretation, judgment, and debate,... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that managers don't have some control over the internal View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding