ByHBR.org
The proposed question is ever- relevant: What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? This is a question Pixar head Ed Catmull has asked, and he says they tend to be pretty much split on it 50/50. A trip through HBR’s archives shows that he’s hardly alone…
When I was growing-up, I had a lot of passions – or at least I thought they were passions. Fortunately, I was blessed with having a structure at home and at school that supported me in the exploration and development of my passions; or at least mostly supported me. My first such recollection was in…
Introduction GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a global healthcare group headquartered in London, UK, engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical products and health-related consumer products. (http:\\www.gsk.com) Outline This article will share how we started, scaled up and began to embed the ADP (Accelerating Delivery and Performance) way of working in GSK between 2009 and…
“Managing by the Numbers” is a tired phrase. Really, it is. “You can’t manage what you don’t measure,” is a phrase that we all hear, and we all say it like a prayer that a nun murmurs while counting rosary beads. Many people argue about who said it first, Peter Drucker or Edward Deming. We…
On Feb. 2, Bloomberg News reported that the electronics retailer company Radioshack, is preparing to close its doors for good through a bankruptcy deal. As the story goes, the chaos around Radioshack’s livelihood has been building for years. So how exactly did this electronics retailer go broke? In the light of the former statement, it…
Bloomberg gives us a warm welcome and insider look into SubTropolis: The underground industrial park in an excavated mine below Kansas City, Mo. A great attracting for tenants with the lure of lower energy costs and cheap rents, Subtropolis was carved out of 270-million-year-old limestone. More than 1,000 people now spend their workdays in SubTropolis – a…
