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You Need an Innovation Strategy (Spanish version)
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R1506BStrategyWhy is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices--such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation--and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have troub...Starting at €8.20
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Restoring American Competitiveness
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R0907S-EEconomicsFor decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's innovative new products. What those companies have been ceding is the country's industrial commons - that is, the collective operational capabilities that underpin new product and proc...Starting at €8.20
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Does America Really Need Manufacturing
Pisano, Gary P.; Shih, WillyArticle HBS-R1203G-EService and Operations ManagementToo many U.S. companies base decisions about where to locate production largely on narrow financial criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the impact it might have on their ability to innovate. The result has been an exodus of manufacturing from America, which has weakened the capabilities that domestic firms need to keep inventing high-quality, cost-competitive prod...Starting at €8.20
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Cuando las barreras a la innovación son internas
García Pont, Carlos; Rocha e Oliveira, PauloArticle ART-2149Innovation and Change, MarketingUn nuevo estudio de los autores sobre los procesos de intercambio de información en veinte multinacionales revela que las empresas no están tan al corriente de sus mercados como debieran. Además, no suelen procesar bien la información. Ambas carencias dan lugar a una serie de barreras a la innovación que resultan muy perjudiciales. Los autores abordan en profundidad estos frenos, agrupados en función de la capacidad de la empresa para conocer, co...Starting at €8.20
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Overcoming the Hidden Barriers to Innovation
García Pont, Carlos; Rocha e Oliveira, PauloArticle ART-2149-EInnovation and Change, MarketingNew research by the authors on the information-sharing processes at 20 multinational firms shows how companies are insufficiently attuned to the ebb and flow of their respective markets. With the market information they do have, they often fail to process it effectively. These problems represent major barriers to innovation. The authors discuss these barriers in depth, grouped according to the firm's ability to know, understand and use market in...Starting at €8.20
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Delegate Responsibilities and Go Beyond the Task
García Pont, Carlos; Canales, J. IgnacioArticle ART-2846-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyUnless you are at the top of the hierarchy, most managers will find themselves caught in a conflicting position, having to carry out certain tasks delegated from above, while not delegating to those below, and where no one experiences much freedom of movement. In the face of this reality, a change of management style is required. Based on research, teaching, consulting and a recent TEDx Talk delivered on the subject, this article shares the keys ...Starting at €8.20
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Cómo restaurar la competitividad de EE.UU.
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R0907SEconomicsDurante décadas, las empresas estadounidenses han sido externalización de la fabricación en la creencia de que se llevó a cabo ninguna ventaja competitiva. Ese ha sido un desastre, mantener los profesores de Harvard Pisano y Shih, ya que las operaciones de fabricación de bajo valor de hoy tienen las semillas de nuevos productos innovadores del mañana. Lo que esas compañías han sido cesión es Commons industriales del país - es decir, las capacidad...Starting at €8.20
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Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success (Spanish version)
Gino, Francesca; Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R1104DLeadership and People ManagementWhat causes so many companies that once dominated their industries to slide into decline? In this article, two Harvard Business School professors argue that such firms lose their touch because success breeds failure by impeding learning at both the individual and organizational levels. When we succeed, we assume that we know what we are doing, but it could be that we just got lucky. We make what psychologists call fundamental attribution errors, ...Starting at €8.20
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You Need an Innovation Strategy
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R1506B-EWhy is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices--such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation--and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have troub...Starting at €8.20
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Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage
Austin, Robert D.; Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R1703F-EMany people with neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia have extraordinary skills, including in pattern recognition, memory, and mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of companies, including SAP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft, have reformed their HR processes in order to access neurodiverse talent--and are seeing productivity gains, quality improve...Starting at €8.20