Tuesday 29 November 2011

MIT Sloan Management Review


Should ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ Mean ‘Creating Jobs for Average Workers’?

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 01:41 PM PST

At the annual Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford conference, the crowd agreed with the motion under debate that "the average worker is being left behind by advances in technology."

Five Ways That Sustainability Commitment Is Up — Dramatically

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 07:18 PM PST

Sixty-eight percent of respondents to MIT SMR's third annual global survey say their organizations increased their commitment to sustainability in the past year. That's a dramatic increase from 2009, when only a quarter of respondents said that. Those are among first highlights featured in the current issue of MIT SMR.

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Monday 28 November 2011

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Tuesday 22 November 2011

MIT Sloan Management Review


Fighting “Not-Sold-Here” Tendencies

Posted: 21 Nov 2011 02:25 AM PST

"Not-sold-here" tendencies, the instinct to not want to give away a company's "crown jewels" through strategic licensing, are an impediment for companies looking to pursue open innovation practices. Monetary and non-monetary incentive mechanisms in support of technology transfer, such as an open innovation award, can help break this instinct.

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Monday 21 November 2011

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Sunday 20 November 2011

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Using Creative Tension to Reach Big Goals

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 12:57 PM PST

Dave Stangis, vice president of corporate social responsibility and sustainability for Campbell Soup Dave Stangis, vice president of corporate social responsibility and sustainability for Campbell Soup, believes that setting “big, hairy, audacious goals” is necessary to set up the kind of tension needed to motivate and inspire the people who need to reach them. Two [...]

The Amplified Enterprise: Using Social Media To Expand Organizational Capabilities

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 02:06 PM PDT

Mark McDonald (top) and Anthony Bradley, of Gartner, Inc., an IT research and advisory company. In their new book, The Social Organization: How to Use Social Media to Tap the Collective Genius of Your Customers and Employees (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011), co-authors Anthony Bradley and Mark McDonald argue that the promise of social media [...]

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Saturday 19 November 2011

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MIT Sloan Management Review


How to Network Your Way to New Product Ideas

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:47 PM PST

Eric von Hippel is a professor of technological innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What if much of what you know — or think you know — about the innovation process is wrong? That's a question Eric von Hippel thinks many companies — and businesspeople — should consider. Von Hippel, [...]

The Power of Being Part of Something Bigger

Posted: 13 Nov 2011 09:55 PM PST

"Leaders in many jobs and activities try to make participants feel like they're part of something bigger than themselves, with the idea that it can motivate them to work harder," notes the Boston Globe, in an item in its weekly "Ideas" section. Now new research by Gregory M. Walton and Geoffrey L. Cohen of Stanford [...]

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Friday 11 November 2011

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Using Creative Tension to Reach Big Goals

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 06:59 AM PST

Dave Stangis, VP of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability for Campbell Soup Dave Stangis, VP of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability for Campbell Soup, believes that setting “big, hairy, audacious goals” is necessary to set up the kind of tension needed to motivate and inspire the people who need to reach them. Two years ago, [...]

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Wednesday 9 November 2011

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[Analytics: The Widening Divide] Moving Forward with Analytics

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:31 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » In this study, we have laid out three competencies based on our analysis of how Aspirational, Experienced and Transformed organizations use analytics, and what they were able to achieve competitively. The challenge, however, is typically not in finding the business case; it's in identifying the [...]

Analytics: The Widening Divide

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:31 PM PST

Sign up for a free monthly newsletter on the New Intelligent Enterprise In this second joint MIT Sloan Management Review and IBM Institute for Business Value study, we see a growing divide between those companies that, on one side, see the value of business analytics and are transforming themselves to take advantage of these newfound [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] About the Research

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:30 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » To continue to deepen our understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with the use of business analytics, for the second year in a row the MIT Sloan Management Review, in partnership with the IBM Institute for Business Value, conducted a global survey of more [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] Conclusion

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:30 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » The 2011 contest between Watson and previous Jeopardy! champions was more than a game. Contestants also had opportunities to wager their "earnings" based on confidence in their own capabilities, and their assessment of the competition. In the real world, too, competitors have everything to gain [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] Pfizer: Next Generation Sales Insights Through Analytics

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:30 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » Tablet PCs help Pfizer track how sales representatives are delivering the recommended content. Image courtesy of Flickr user Willamor Media. After years of exclusive sales from its Lipitor patent, which delivered almost 20% of its annual U.S. revenue in 2010, the patent's looming loss made [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] Understanding the Path Ahead

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:30 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » Ideally, as organizations begin their transformations to analytical sophistication, they start building a solid information foundation and acquiring analytics capabilities simultaneously. In reality, we find that they tend to do one or the other, based on their existing culture, organizational structure and skills. The two [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] Two Paths to Transformation

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:29 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » While Transformed organizations serve as benchmarks for establishing analytics competencies, almost half of the organizations we surveyed are at the Experienced level, somewhere between the most basic and the most advanced segments.10 We took a closer look at this large transitional segment to better understand [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] The Collaborative Path Crosses Organizational Boundaries

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:29 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » By contrast, organizations taking the Collaborative path use analytics more broadly and effectively. Unlike Specialized organizations, which typically have pockets of excellence in one area or another, Collaborative organizations achieve consistent levels of effectiveness across functions. Like a rising tide that lifts all boats, analytics [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] BAE Systems: A New Business Model Takes Flight

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:29 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » Copyright © 2010 BAE Systems. All rights reserved. Like most organizations, BAE Systems once used analytics primarily for the basics – modeling costs and analyzing other financial information. However, when the global defense contractor moved into long-term "performance-based" contracts for its military and technical services [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] The Most Distinctive Characteristics of Transformed Organizations

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:29 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » For organizations seeking to emulate Transformed organizations, it is useful to know which actions have the biggest impact on their level of sophistication. Analysis showed that of all the characteristics exhibited by Transformed organizations, their proficiency (represented by the percentages) in six characteristics distinguished them [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] McKesson: Efficiency at Scale

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 06:28 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » Image courtesy of McKesson Corp. Improving process efficiency within the supply chain has been standard practice in the last several years, particularly for those organizations that operate in high-volume, low-margin businesses. McKesson, a U.S.-based pharmaceutical distribution and healthcare technology company, ranks among the largest companies [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] Introduction

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 05:52 PM PST

Report Home | Next Chapter » In 1997, a computer named Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion at the time. In 2011, another computer, Watson, competed and won against former champions of Jeopardy!, the popular U.S. television quiz show. Both events changed perceptions about what computers could do. Deep Blue demonstrated the [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] Acknowledgments

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 01:29 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home Authors David Kiron is the Executive Editor of Innovation Hubs at MIT Sloan Management Review, which brings ideas from the world of thinkers to the executives and managers who use them to build businesses. He can be reached at dkiron@mit.edu. Rebecca Shockley is the Business Analytics and Optimization Global [...]

[Analytics: The Widening Divide] Engaging Customers as Individuals

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 01:06 PM PST

« Previous Chapter | Report Home | Next Chapter » In addition to an intense focus on risk, our analysis revealed Transformed organizations pay more attention to understanding and engaging with their customers in new ways (see Figure 8). They appear to be responding more pervasively to a profound market shift, namely the explosion of [...]

MIT Sloan Management Review

Tuesday 8 November 2011

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Saturday 5 November 2011

ou CAN learn to become a powerful catalyst of conscious evolution and play a role in one of the most exciting events ever envisioned: a planetary Birth Day on December 22, 2012. This day will help us shift beyond fearful separation toward a global sense of oneness, symbolically marking the start of a new era in human development. Already more than 49,000 people have said "yes" to the Vision for the planetary Birth Day and more than 1500 have trained to be part of the global team. You, too, can join this movement determined to help make the Shift. In the mainstream media, our times are seen as precarious and grim. We teeter on the edge of environmental collapse and global disaster, buffeted by war and strife. This intense and often emotional drama has one powerful solution: our conscious evolution as a species. We have within us extraordinary creative potentials that have yet to be massively unleashed, leading to wide-scale cooperation, innovation, sustainability and peace. The solutions are available; it is only the human software that needs an upgrade. Which brings us to YOU: are you one of those here to upgrade the software? Reboot planet earth with a more holistic, compassionate, and sacred vision? Connect to and empower what IS truly working within yourself and within the world, rather than lament what no longer works? There is a profound birthing process underway on our planet, and the crises we face can be seen as contractions -- and evolutionary drivers. These catalytic events are accelerating, which is really good news because it means the birth is near. Many prophecies concur that the time for a planetary shift has arrived. Only it won’t happen by magic; it will happen only if those of us with the “codes” step forward and give our greatest gifts to the emergence of a new co-creative human society. If we do that, we can collectively ignite a new way of being that endures for decades to come. Join us to begin the evolutionary adventure of a lifetime! http://ping.fm/MiG8r We are here to participate in the Great Turning from one era into another. Our planetary crises AND our unbridled creativity are together pushing for this larger Shift, and it’s happening right now. It merely needs to be accelerated, activated and made visible to the whole of humanity, inviting their participation. That’s why our intention is to build a year’s worth of transformative programs that help shift our culture and reaches a crescendo with a planetary Birth Day event on Dec. 22, 2012. This day will involve a global broadcast, a State of the Planet address, a 100-year vision for humanity, synchronized meditation and sounds, and a global children’s choir. And it will lead into local synergy circles, activation of collaborations, and creative parties around the world. Imagine what’s possible if tens of millions of us choose to unify for that day and express our highest consciousness and creativity. Imagine connecting what is innovative and creative at a planetary scale. Imagine what can be unleashed.

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Please Give Us Your Thoughts on Social Business

Posted: 04 Nov 2011 01:34 PM PDT

Image courtesy of Flickr user League of Women Voters of California. Today we're launching the next step in our inquiry into social business. We're fielding the global survey that will fuel our report on social business due out next spring.  Please take the survey; it takes about 15-20 minutes.  It's being conducted jointly with our [...]

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Friday 4 November 2011

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Most Popular Articles and Blog Posts — October 2011

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:27 AM PDT

Articles from MIT Sloan Management Review: The Age of the Consumer-Innovator (Fall 2011) Which Strategy When? (Fall 2011)  What Influences Customers’ Online Comments (Fall 2011) How to Change a Culture: Lessons from NUMMI (Winter 2010, won the Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize in Fall 2011) Creating Business Value with Analytics (Fall 2011) Posts from our blog, Improvisations: What Google VP [...]

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Thursday 3 November 2011

MIT Sloan Management Review


Give your social business a purpose

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 08:54 AM PDT

Featured this month in the Social Business Hub: Use purpose and not fear to drive social media How are organizations moving from a “provide and pray” approach to social business to a strategic one? In a new Q&A, Mark McDonald and Anthony Bradley, both of Gartner and authors of The Social Organization, tell MIT SMR [...]

The Amplified Enterprise: Using Social Media To Expand Organizational Capabilities

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 08:33 AM PDT

Mark McDonald (top) and Anthony Bradley, of Gartner, Inc., an IT research and advisory company. In their new book, The Social Organization: How to Use Social Media to Tap the Collective Genius of Your Customers and Employees (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011), co-authors Anthony Bradley and Mark McDonald argue that the promise of social media [...]

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Wednesday 2 November 2011

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Homo Economicus

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 06:31 PM PDT

ephraim “I think to start answering the questions you've posed we need to stop using the term ‘human capital management.’ The main point of ‘social business’ is that people and their connections move to the forefront (of software, organizational structures, planning, etc). As a term, ‘human capital management’ really takes the ‘human’ out of people. [...]

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