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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Adopting an agile method of customer testing and rapid iteration, they worked with engineering to rethink the product and bring a “minimum viable product” to market for these new buyers.

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How One CMO Revamped Her Role

Harvard Business

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising. And they have significantly more impact.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Cost increases of about $400mm are expected to be offset by other synergies in the two separate companies at the end of 2017. The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility.