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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. ” They Develop a Road Map Before Disruption Takes Hold. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

The origins of our agile network can be traced back to an online idea forum called WeSolve that we launched in 2014 as a way of challenging Bayer employees to contribute solutions to specific technical or commercial problems. The innovation agenda. Extending the network.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace.

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The Best Approach to Decision Making Combines Data and Managers’ Expertise

Harvard Business

.” Rather than reducing reliance on intuition, the advanced methodologies of big data require managers to use even more intuition to make sense of the growing number of outputs and recommendations being generated by data models. For instance, Icosystem developed a simulation of the daily behavior of more than 300,000 sailors in the U.S.

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The Fight Against Zika Can’t Wait for a Vaccine

Harvard Business

When an epidemic is imminent, vaccines can’t be developed quickly enough because assuring their efficacy and safety requires trials that take months to years to complete. There is no federal agency with the responsibility and authority to coordinate industry, academia, and other agencies and drive forward the necessary development.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

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The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business

” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. .” A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

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