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January 1, 2006 Strategy & Leadership Overcoming the barriers to effective innovation ABSTRACT: Purpose - This article offers three key pieces of advice for companies that aspire to be successful serial innovators: don't just treat the symptoms. Don't only act on one root cause. Don't blindly copy best practices. SUBJECTS COVERED: Innovation competency development, Experimentation, Innovation barriers and enablers, Innovation metrics, Innovation processes and tools, Knowledge management, Leadership, Management innovation, Strategy development process COMPANIES CITED: American Girl, Apple, Best Buy, Dell, Google, McDonald's, Red Box, Southwest Airlines, Valvoline, Virgin, Whirlpool
July 30, 2005 Optimize Magazine Using Mergers To Spark Creativity ABSTRACT: Mergers and acquisitions can spell opportunity for creativity, and CIOs can set the stage to harness innovative ideas. SUBJECTS COVERED: Innovation competency development, Innovation barriers and enablers, Innovation processes and tools, Leadership COMPANIES CITED: Apple, AT&T, Big Blue, Cemex, FedEx, General Electric, Gillette, Groove Networks, Handspring, IBM, K-Mart, Lotus, MCI, Microsoft, Oracle, Palm Inc, Procter & Gamble, Retek, SBC Communications, Sears, TiVo, Verizon, Virgin, Whirlpool, 3M
April 1, 2005 European Business Forum Steps to implementation ABSTRACT: The idea of simultaneously working on strategic direction and implementation may upset some business leaders, but the truth is that strategic questions and implementation issues go hand in hand. March 9, 2005 Wall Street Journal Will Howard Stringer Save Sony? ABSTRACT: The real news behind the new CEO of Sony isn't the fact of the gaijin Howard Stringer in the corporate suite. Instead, the change reflects a "perfect storm" that had already been blowing, one that has altered the consumer electronics and media businesses in fundamental ways. Even Sony must change, or be swept away. SUBJECTS COVEREDED: Breakthrough strategy and competitive advantage, Experimentation, Leadership COMPANIES CITED: MGM, Procter & Gamble, Sony
March 1, 2005 The American Lawyer "Arrows and a Diagram" ABSTRACT: Many Heller lawyers scoffed when the firm embarked on a mission of self-exploration six years ago. With rising revenues and global goals, they're no longer scornful. SUBJECTS COVERED: Breakthrough strategy and competitive advantage, Strategy development process, Experimentation, Leadership COMPANIES CITED: Heller Ehrman, Venture Law Group, Microsoft Corporation, Altria Group, Inc., and Royal Dutch/Shell Group January 1, 2005 Strategy and Leadership, Jan-Feb, 2005 Metrics for innovation: Guidelines for Developing a Customized Suite of Innovation Metrics ABSTRACT: The real problem is not a lack of innovation it's sustaining it by good management, a process guided by measurement. The authors offer managers both general principles of innovation metrics plus sample metrics for monitoring the effectiveness of their innovation programs. SUBJECTS COVERED: Innovation competency development, Innovation metrics, Leadership COMPANIES CITED: Coca-Cola, eBay, Eastman Kodak, Mad River Traders, Maytag, PepsiCo, South Beach Beverage Co, Southwest Airlines, Ti, University of Phoenix, Wal-Mart
July 1, 2004 Harvard Business Review Funding Growth in an Age of Austerity ABSTRACT: Growth depends innovation. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth. Yet we live in an age of austerity where every budget in every company is under perpetual scrutiny. Thus it is imperative for companies to increase their "innovation yield". We present several strategies for increasing the effectiveness of innovation efforts. SUBJECTS COVERED: Innovation competency development, Breakthrough strategy and competitive advantage, Consumer research and consumer insights, Experimentation, Innovation processes and tools COMPANIES CITED: Cemex, Chevrolet, Costco, Digital Extremes, Epic Games, General Motors, HealthSouth, IBM, Linux, Microsoft, NVIDIA, PayPal, Procter & Gamble, Shell Chemical, Starbucks, TiVo, Toyota, Tyco, Vivendi, Whirlpool, W.L. Gore
June 1, 2004 Optimize Magazine The Changing Face of Global Business ABSTRACT: From a global perspective, the concept of change management couldn't be more critical for senior executives. Yet, the conventional models for change management are at best incomplete and at worst wrong-particularly for global companies attempting to transform themselves. SUBJECTS COVERED: Innovation processes and tools, Leadership COMPANIES CITED: Apple, Fossil Watches, Lotus, Motorola, Roche Diagnostics, Whirlpool, Xerox, 3Com
March 16, 2004 Janela da Web Innovation in Portuguese Companies ABSTRACT: While innovation is accepted by most Portuguese companies as something beneficial and necessary, there are barriers still to be broken down. SUBJECTS COVERED: Innovation barriers and enablers COMPANIES CITED: Banco 7
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