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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. More than 600 were selected.

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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. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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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. ” Step 3: Define operational requirements. Where Did Discovery-Driven Planning Originate?

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Retirement for Chicago Park District Employees, With Full Benefits: Age 58; Reflections on Chicago's Second Triple-Notch Bond Downgrade in Six Months

MishTalk

Based on the new Moody’s methodology, which uses more conservative assumptions, Chicago’s 2012 pension shortfall jumps nearly 90 percent, to $36 billion from $19 billion. billion in 2015 from $467 million in 2014. Under new Moody’s methodology, the underfunding for the state’s five state-run funds is set to approach $200 billion.

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

Harvard Business

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. Furthermore, the predictive models created by big data methodologies do not incorporate the manager’s unique knowledge of the business. But is the pendulum starting to swing too far? .”

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy. Using the same formula, Apple’s intangible assets in 2014 were $280 billion — or almost twice the value of its 2015 calculation.

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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. ’ Sometimes you need to be reminded of that.”

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