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What a recent HBR article gets wrong (and right) about innovation metrics

Commodore Innovation

A recent HBR article ( here ) claims that use of innovation metrics (especially financial metrics) too early will “suffocate” your most promising innovations.

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What a recent HBR article gets wrong (and right) about innovation metrics

Commodore Innovation

A recent HBR article ( here ) claims that use of innovation metrics (especially financial metrics) too early will “suffocate” your most promising innovations. Christensen and colleagues 1 called them “innovation killers” in a 2008 HBR article and earlier work 2 highlights similar issues. Financial metrics (e.g.,

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Your Favorite HBR Articles of 2023

Harvard Business Review

As we close out 2023, we asked our readers: Did an HBR article make a meaningful impact on the way you think, work, or lead this year? They called out articles ranging from a 2001 classic article about managing your energy as a worker to a recent magazine piece on storytelling for leaders.

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Are We Seeing a Revival of Union Power?

Harvard Business Review

But how should this moment be understood, and what does it signal about the future of organized labor in the United States? For the first time in recent memory, unions are taking strong, militant stances — and seem to be making major gains as a result.

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HBR Podcast on Disruptive Innovation

Idea to Value

No, I am not talking about every start-up trying to disrupt their industry. I am talking about the original theory of disruptive innovation, as outlined by Professor Clayton Christensen in his groundbreaking Harvard Business Review article in 1995. Do you know what disruptive innovation is? Listen to the podcast episode here.

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Podcast S4E91: Dave Birss – How to bring creativity into remote working

Idea to Value

We speak about how to keep up creativity in the times of remote working, and how to think laterally to live consciously again. 00:09:45 – The issue is not idea generation techniques, it is about getting new inputs. 00:09:45 – The issue is not idea generation techniques, it is about getting new inputs.

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Scientific Management, Taylorism and how employees are prevented from innovating

Idea to Value

The Harvard Business Review’s Podcast “ HBR Ideacast ” has recently started a series on four business ideas which changed the world. I already told you about their excellent episode on Disruptive Innovation. Today I want to highlight another great episode on a topic I learned a lot more about: Taylorism.