Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

Simon 8

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Keep processes that encourage employees to question the status quo , to engage in observations in all types of environments, to network far and wide for ideas, and to experiment on a regular basis.

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. Start-ups and incumbents alike sought better ways to adapt to the unfamiliar and turbulent environment. In 2001, 17 developers who called themselves “organizational anarchists” met in Snowbird, Utah, to share their ideas.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. Empirically, this is simply not true.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In today's tumultuous environment, we believe that the work of sensing and responding to the market is too important to be left to random projects and a "volunteer army"; the processes of external sensing and driving enterprise-level integration needs to be designed, staffed, and owned just like all other processes.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

In highly uncertain environments, failures are both useful and unavoidable. This hugely expensive venture (which I actually mention in the article) attempted to import Google's technology to the world of radio advertising and make money the same way the company does on the Internet. Google Catalogs (December 2001 to January 2009).

Succession 14

Succession Advertising Business Model Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

In the book we're working on right now, we make the argument that capitalism is evolving because the environment in which it is situated is changing in fundamental ways. Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Take Dell Technologies, for example. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. As more and more firms copy each others' best practices, many of the remaining critical elements of the business environment are determined by governments.

Strategy 9

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Right now, yesterday's organizations — from corporations to Congress — have a gaping, yawning disclosure gap: the how, what, why, how and when of disclosure simply isn't good enough for markets and communities to be able to allocate and utilize resources productively or efficiently.

GDP 15

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

What has kept our standard of living one of the highest in the world is our ability to find new ways of doing things; invent exciting and disruptive technologies; and create captivating novel products, processes, and services that delight customers. In 2001, Xilinx's business drop like a rock.

Senge 8

Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8