Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? The very definition of "high-technology" hints at something typically reserved for the developed world. However, the story of Capillary Technologies portends a global shift of technology "trickling up" in the opposite direction.

Technology 10

Technology Innovation CRM Retail 10

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Is it the clothing retail business? Administration/management. Technology. If so, do you understand that business? Can you cook great food? Can you wait tables? Is it the military? Do you understand small unit tactics? Can you operate weapons? You gotta know the business. You gotta have business savvy. Can you organize things?

Skills 44

Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. The proof is Cisco's own 2009 new product promise. Technology couldn't have been the issue.

Wireless 11

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Essential Experts.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2009 it was reimagined as an online shopping festival. At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. I N CHINA, near the turn of the century, Singles Day (11/11) was celebrated as a time for single people to meet. billion dollars.

Business Model 234

Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 234

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. This second transformation will be triggered not by regulation but by rapidly evolving technology. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. One response by established brands has been to acquire smaller companies.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The book retail platform was not yet burning. The HBR article describes how B&N moved on multiple fronts at once: It aggressively reduced costs in its core retail business while refocusing its stores around consumer needs. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Seminar Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Imagine one of your managers walks into their subordinate’s office and says, “Our data analysis predicts that you will soon get restless and think of leaving us, so we want to make you an offer that our data shows has retained others like you.” Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management? Would they be delighted or disturbed?

Human Resources 11

Human Resources Information Technology Report Human Capital 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. British retailer ASOS also maintains a popular Instagram account. For most established players, the technology and skill gaps are intimidating, and it take years of effort to close them.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2014

As is the case every year, it is a tour de force of ideas and initiatives about the customer experience (Amazon Prime), disruptive technology (Fire TV), fast-growing product initiatives (Amazon Web Services), and strategic consistency. (As Last week, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos released his annual letter to shareholders.

Letter 12

Letter Morale Long-term Commitment 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The situation stabilized somewhat after the government abandoned the Zimbabwean dollar in favor of a multi-currency system in 2009 and entered a power-sharing deal with the opposition party. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g.,

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Shipment volumes through North American ports, which fell 20% in 2009 from a record peak in 2007, are now higher than they were in 2007, and port-expansion plans from Vancouver to Los Angeles/Long Beach are bogged down by political wrangling. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. Russia is going through a credit crunch that is causing significant retail sector consolidation and putting distributors under substantial pressure.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. Bank of America recently considered a $5 fee for customers to get their own money via their debit card because they have to find a way to fund all those retail storefronts. There's no way we could ever be this collaborative.".

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

While this measure fell to 19% in 2009, it has since recovered.) As more people begin to see income inequality as a negative “externality” — an unintended but damaging consequence of decisions that businesses make to boost profits — how should managers respond? And directly, the trends are literally unsustainable. They can ….

Golden Parachute 11

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 11

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 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every day, online retailers use computer-based transactions to guide us through stepwise sequences to buy a pair of jeans, apply for a credit card, or book a flight. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. Electronic medical records can help correct these systemic defects. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Neither digital technology nor the corporation itself is necessarily to blame for the current predicament. In 2009, a study initiated by economic futurists at Deloitte’s Center for the Edge dubbed this “the Big Shift.” The cash does nothing but collect. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Building off US-inspired steel-based technology, we believe that it's possible to design, build, deliver, and erect affordable multi-tier tower housing, addressed squarely to lower class sections of the Indian demographic.

Suri 14

Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

N2Build has a large network of R&D alliances: it collaborates with researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and INEGI (National Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management), the eminent Portuguese research institute.

Company 8

Company Construction Seminar Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

but the latter’s volume of exports is so much larger that the bilateral trade deficit has risen by roughly 50% since 2009 and stood at $366 billion in 2015. Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever. job killers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. Steve Jobs understood this more than most technology executives, which is why he elevated product launches to an art form: Every media firm had to cover a new Apple release.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11