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Proven growth strategies from market leaders
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Discover how market leaders—Walmart, Builders FirstSource, Progressive, and JPMorgan Chase—achieved exceptional growth from 2019 to 2024, outperforming peers by an average of five percentage points in revenue and seven points in profitability. In this episode, Simon Jones, David Schiff, and Kate Siegel discuss their new article on the three critical characteristics that drive sustained profitable business growth: committed investment strategies, diversified growth engines, and systematic technology integration.
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The Committed Innovator: Why innovation competitions work
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McKinsey holds an innovation competition every year, and compelling evidence shows that most organizations can benefit from doing...
The Committed Innovator: Keeping up with AI and deploying it as it evolves
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The Committed Innovator: Enabling and harnessing the innovation process
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The Committed Innovator: Taking on the challenge of ocean pollution from plastic
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The Ocean Cleanup’s Boyan Slat discusses the promise and challenge of technological innovation at planetary scale.
The Committed Innovator: Finding a grounded approach to the restaurant business
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Mercer Street Hospitality founder and CEO John McDonald discusses how he selects new projects while maintaining his stable of...
The Committed Innovator: Filling the gap between innovation and go to market
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AWS’s Jelena Joffe Weil discusses Amazon’s venture innovation initiative and the benefits of collaborative innovation...
The Committed Innovator: Child and adolescent mental health as a proving ground for innovation
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Although one in five people will experience a mental health malady as a child, effective diagnosis and treatment often remain...
The Committed Innovator: Helping India’s e-commerce leapfrog into the future
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The Committed Innovator: Leading through noise to find the right signal
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March Capital’s Wes Nichols talks about innovating on the front lines of technological change.
The Committed Innovator: Talking innovation in video games with Electronic Arts
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EA’s chief strategy officer, Mihir Vaidya, discusses the challenges of innovating at the intersection of art, entertainment,...
Driving innovation with generative AI
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Companies with innovation cultures are way ahead of peers in deploying—and benefiting from—generative AI.
The Committed Innovator: Bringing innovation to a not-for-profit setting
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American Red Cross chief innovation officer Sajit Joseph discusses the opportunity in bringing innovation, AI, and digital transformation...
Three essentials of successful corporate venture capital
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Investing in start-ups can help you tap external innovation, as long as you avoid the pitfalls.
The Committed Innovator: How Major League Baseball built an innovation machine
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MLB Chief Operations and Strategy Officer Chris Marinak shares how the league is changing the game on and off the field to connect...
The Committed Innovator: Talking with Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein
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How starting a T-shirt business in college led to helping run a giant e-commerce platform, why starting a side business makes...
The Committed Innovator: The power of design
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PepsiCo chief design officer Mauro Porcini describes how humanity and authenticity drive innovation, and the ‘unicorn’...
The Committed Innovator: The core attributes of the innovative mindset
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How listening, critical thinking, tech savvy, and diverse teams help pioneers build innovation engines and ecosystems.
Taking fear out of innovation
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The risk and ambiguity inherent in innovation can make employees shy away from it. Creating an innovation culture where risk-taking...
The Committed Innovator: Working with start-ups
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Innovators from large organizations talk about working with start-ups, and how each can support the other.
The Committed Innovator: The future of Israel’s start-up ecosystem
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Based on past successes within the world’s third-largest start-up ecosystem, two innovation leaders see technological and...
The Committed Innovator: What has made Israel an innovation hub?
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Economist John List discusses the science of determining whether a product or service can become a blockbuster.
The Committed Innovator: A conversation with DBS’s Han Kwee Juan
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The Singaporean bank’s chief strategist talks about creating “joyful” banking experiences and a culture of...
The Committed Innovator: A conversation with Temasek’s Pradyumna Agrawal
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The Singaporean state investment company’s managing director for blockchain talks about business building in a world still...
The Committed Innovator: A conversation with Keho’s Tekla Back
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The Committed Innovator: A conversation with Loonshots author Safi Bahcall
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The entrepreneur and innovation adviser explains how to make bold innovations flourish.
Innovation—the launchpad out of the crisis
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How organizations can innovate their way into the postpandemic era.
The Committed Innovator: A conversation with Amy Brooks of the NBA
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The National Basketball Association’s chief innovation officer explains how the league seized opportunities presented by...
The Committed Innovator: A conversation with Tanya Baker of Goldman Sachs Accelerate
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The global leader of Goldman Sachs’ internal new business incubator on fostering innovation and entrepreneurial ventures...
The Committed Innovator: A conversation with Dometic’s Peter Kjellberg
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The chief marketing officer of the mobile-living-products company explains why a commitment to innovation has to start at the...
The Committed Innovator: A conversation with board director Ireena Vittal
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The global innovation expert on solving the puzzle of growth in emerging markets.
The Committed Innovator: A conversation with Neal Gutterson of Corteva
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How a biotech scientist helped transform a traditional science organization into an innovation leader.
The Committed Innovator: An interview with Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo
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The Committed Innovator: An interview with Salesforce’s Simon Mulcahy
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The cloud software provider’s executive vice president and chief innovation officer discusses how Salesforce’s innovation...
The Committed Innovator: An interview with Kellogg’s Nigel Hughes
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The Committed Innovator: A discussion with investor Kevin O’Leary
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The Committed Innovator: A discussion with Beth Comstock
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How tolerance for risk, patience, and thinking small (where funding is concerned) can lead to breakthrough innovation.
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By combining two simple metrics, companies can gain valuable insights into their innovation performance.
How to move fast: Innovation at speed and scale
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Creating high-performance innovation teams at scale
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Framing reinvention: What disruptive change means for business, society, and you
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Global managing partner Kevin Sneader reflects on the challenges and opportunities that disruptive change presents for business...