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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

They were famously sued by Polaroid when Kodak’s version of an instant developing camera was deemed an illegal knock-off; they did not stay price competitive against low-cost mass distributors; they lost their film market in good part to Fuji; and they bought into the pharmaceutical industry with little idea of how the pharma business works.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Make Your Strategy More Agile

Harvard Business

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business

Clearly, there has to be a better way to paint a car, but to make that operation more efficient and take cost out will require the development of a new process. A new process will also need to be developed to assemble electric vehicles since they involve the relatively uncomplicated installation of the battery pack and an electric motor.

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How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together

Harvard Business

Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. As a mathematical model developed by Yale psychologists Adam Bear and David Rand shows , people who are typically surrounded by jerks learn intuitively to be selfish and to not deliberate over their actions. Celia de Anca and Salvador Aragón.