Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

It is a collection of in-depth interviews with movers and shakers in the technology world. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

Entrepreneur 28

Entrepreneur Licensing Newsletter Books 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

In 2005, McKesson invested in a David called RelayHealth that was in the connectivity business before connectivity was hot. A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. Ability to Implement New Technologies. It’s easy to forget that technology rollouts require an engaged frontline. Work currently does not work for millions of Americans.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2018

In much the same way, IBM’s Watson project , which is helping the venerable company overcome the disruption of its traditional business, began in 2005. Google has created its own moonshot factory , to pursue game-changing technologies that may take years to pay off. We need to set our sights higher. Why We Need to Think Bigger.

Agility 9

Agility Innovation Long-term Project 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. While our research found that firm-level innovation is high, we also note that policy plays an important role.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 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. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does.

Pharmaceuticals 9

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 9

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Bjarte Bogsnes.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. So why has Apple not sued Google?

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 8

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid. Of course, the shuttered stores, depressed execs, and tanking stocks suggest otherwise. What’s the real story?

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. Such leaders understand that a push to undertake a new strategy or to redirect operational performance depends pivotally on how well they communicate with employees.

Company 8

Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

While interning in Mozambique in 2005 for the one-person (!) But she realizes that it was the practical need to pioneer new materials technology under strict cost constraints in tandem with improving lives that really accelerated the innovation process. Emotion Attracts Good People.

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO GDP Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly.

Cooper 15

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. ” I said, No.

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 78

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 78

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

They overinvest in incremental innovation, and underinvest in innovations that would create "must haves" that would define new subcategories, which, with rare exceptions, are the only innovations that create real growth. They're unlikely to tee up major innovations that don't fall into their space.

Kahneman 14

Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted. FM was destroyed.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users. In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. In 2005, I visited Wired magazine’s founding editor Kevin Kelly at his home in California.

Chemicals 10

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. We normally think of insurgency in a political context, but today's digital technologies are creating a similar dynamic in business.

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Just one in three diagnostic mistakes result from physicians’ mental mistakes, according to a 2005 analysis by the Archives of Internal Medicine. Second, embrace technology. Medical technology is often perceived as a driver of health care costs, and there is certainly some truth to that. Cutting costs Health Innovation'

Cost 8

Cost Health Care System Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. VCs provide the funds that fuel every significant innovation in the region and beyond. Private investors, unlike government funders, operate at lightning speed. or even Silicon Valley, has figured out every legal hack that would make innovation flourish.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. My friends in the industry tell me that bogey was met by 2005. Of course, competing through lowered cost, providing better products, and innovating are nothing new.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8