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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 2: Do benchmarking. How many sales do they have to close and in what time period?

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? We always urge you to read the methodology carefully. Financial performance. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.