Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Few product releases are as hotly anticipated, fiercely competitive, or widely debated as those that keep the console wars waging. The easiest way to understand Sony’s position with the PS4 is to review the mistakes it made last time around, beginning with its price. There are already strategy lessons to be drawn from the contest.

Strategy 12

Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

To our surprise, it sold in 20 minutes for 25% more than the asking price. For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors. What about the automation of the production line? Just 6% are using AI in pricing. bribes and kickbacks).

Company 13

Company Survey Finance Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. He was right there in the middle of it.

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Ambassador to India from 2004 to 2009, was more successful in part because his long tenure enabled him to gain trust, respect and apply his learning effectively. Value, not price: The common wisdom is that India’s buyers seek the lowest possible price and are prepared to compromise on quality. David Mulford, U.S.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

For example, many companies conduct frequent surveys asking customers how likely they are to recommend a product or company to friends or colleagues. When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. The result?

Customer Loyalty 14

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. 3721’s core product was essentially an early form of search: a browser download that helped users in China go directly to destination web sites. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

While searching for other people using Delicious to organize their professional networks, I discovered Marnie Webb, who had introduced the use of the nptech tag into the community of nonprofit technology users; Marnie became a client and a friend. I stored my first bookmark on October 14, 2004, on the day I wrote my very first blog post.

Media 15

Media Competitive Advantage Software Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

For wages to grow on a sustained basis, workers’ productivity must rise, meaning they must steadily produce more per hour, often with the help of new technology or capital. Further, workers must receive a consistent share of those productivity gains, rather than seeing their share decline. At the same time, U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Education Trends Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. Competing by doing what everyone else is doing means, he says, competing on price (that is, learning to be more efficient than your rivals).

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. It is currently at less than o.5% 5% of the federal budget. Adapting to change.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Public shareholders, including Carl Icahn, do not invest in Apple’s productive capabilities. But what is the economic logic for this use of buybacks?

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Unfortunately, Covisint’s ownership structure and auction format heavily favored auto companies (the consumers on the platform) while forcing suppliers into fierce price competition, leaving them with little or no residual value. Sony, Hewlett Packard (HP), and Garmin all made the mistake of emphasizing products over platforms.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

While I've helped many clients grow their products, brands, and overall businesses, there is nothing as exhilarating as helping a company create an entirely new category. Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. Few growth strategies match the economics of category creation.

B2C 13

B2C Strategy B2B Waterman 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

They ignore the realities of how global manufacturing now works — how it has evolved into a complex network of interlinked factories that together build many of the products sold today. Generally, what we see is the country where the final assembly of a product took place. A big reason is technological complexity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8