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complexity, companies need to identify their innovation fulcrum, the point at which the level of product innovation maximizes both revenues and profits. Innovation Versus Complexity What Is Too Much of a Good Thing? COPYRIGHT © 2005 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by Mark Gottfredson and Keith Aspinall Walk into the In-N-Out Burger restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, and one of the first things that may strike you is the number four
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the impasse. These measures, proven effective in scores of strategy off-sites for companies of all sizes, enable teams to move beyond the blame cycle to a no-fault style of decision making. Jen Hsieh hbr.org | November 2008 | Harvard Business Review 121 Best Practice When Teams Can’t Decide Asking the Impossible Reaching collective decisions based on individual preferences is an imperfect science. Majority wishes can
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willingness to invest in new technology allowed the company to streamline how it views, interprets, and gathers information. Implementing the use of technology such as Business Sufficiency, Business Spheres, and Decision Cockpits allows employees at all levels to view and make real-time decisions in the company. Executives use the Business Sufficiency software to make 6-12 month predictions about P&G's performance statistics. The goal of this software is to make leaders within the company aware of what
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For the exclusive use of X. XIAO 2177 APRIL 11, 2008 LARRY E. GREINER ELIZABETH COLLINS A Day in the Life of Alex Sander: Driving in the Fast Lane at Landon Care Products 5:25 A.M. Sweat dripped onto the handlebars of Alex Sander’s StairMaster. Sander was half an hour into a cardiovascular workout, while carrying on a conversation in the fitness center of the downtown condominium complex with a neighbor who was climbing steadily on his own StairMaster. At 32, Alex was the newest
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lessons in the actions of great leaders. We should instead be examining what goes on in their heads – particularly the way they creatively build on the tensions among conflicting ideas. How Successful Leaders Thınk by Roger Martin 60 Harvard Business Review 1179 Martin.indd 60 | June 2007 | Alex Nabaum W E ARE DRAWN to the stories of effective leaders in action. Their decisiveness invigorates us. The events that unfold from their bold moves, often culminating in successful
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Here’s a framework to help you think through your options. by Pankaj Ghemawat W Managing Dif ferences Ian Whadcock The Central Challenge of Global Strategy hbr.org | March 2007 | Harvard Business Review 59 YEL MAG CYAN BLACK HEN IT COMES TO GLOBAL STRATEGY, most business leaders and academics make two assumptions: first, that the central challenge is to strike the right balance between economies of scale and responsiveness to local conditions, and second, that the more
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92 Harvard Business Review May 2010 HBR.ORG Clark G. Gilbert (cgilbert@ deseretdigital.com) is the president and CEO of Deseret Digital Media and was formerly a professor at Harvard Business School. Matthew J. Eyring (meyring@innosight.com) is the president of Innosight, a strategic innovation consulting and investment company outside Boston. Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture Smart entrepreneurs aren’t cowboys—they’re methodical managers of risk. by Clark G. Gilbert and
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Organizations By John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen Buy the book: Amazon Barnes & Noble HarvardBusiness.org Harvard Business Press Boston, Massachusetts ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-4672-9 4673BC This document is authorized for use only in GMBA-EN-BL_Abr2015_A1 - Strategy Implementation by Pedro Guillermo Ruiz, IE Business School from January 2016 to January 2017. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America This chapter
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by Clayton M. Christensen, Matt Marx, and Howard H. Stevenson Managers can use a variety of carrots and sticks to encourage people to work together and accomplish change. Their ability to get results depends on selecting tools that match the circumstances they face. T JIM FRAZIER the primary task of management is to get people to work together in a systematic way. Like orchestra conductors, managers direct the talents and actions of various players to produce a desired result. It’s a complicated
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