First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

Review 80

Review Technology Strategy Books 80

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic.

Business Model 298

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. In fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs who are not consistently reengineering elements of their business fall into one of the following two camps; 1) They have a perfect business, or; 2) They are an ineffective CEO.

Restructuring 288

Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 288

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? The business media have had no shortage of these. While there is certainly merit in questioning your business model, revolutionary business model transformation remains elusive despite the buzz.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 21, 2010

The result is inefficiencies such as hiring the wrong talent are better tolerated by the business models of smaller companies. The result is inefficiencies such as hiring the wrong talent are better tolerated by the business models of smaller companies.

Company 140

Company Human Resources Emotional Intelligence Welch 140

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

Just a couple of weeks ago, I suggested in an article published in the European Financial Review that Groupon's business model suffers from some alarming weaknesses. The offers are co-created with the merchants and to some extent the members due to the tipping point nature of the business, so let's say a 6. But not so fast.

Business Model 15

Business Model Discount IPO Customer Loyalty 15

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. These tenets are discussed at length by Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies, in his book ‘employees first, customers second’ [link] mikemyatt Hi Kavita: Thanks for your comment.

Blog 310

Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 310

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Too much money is spent on attention-grabbing activities that are straightforward to do, like hiring new people, procuring new technologies, and buying more facilities. This includes technology and people, as well as tangible, intangible, and financial assets.

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. But let’s go further on education.

Mentor 50

Mentor GDP Education Engineering 50

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

The next time you hear someone question an investment into design solely for the purpose of reducing expenditures, I would suggest that you think long and hard before doing so as few things in business produce the return on investment that a reputation for quality design can yield.

Brand 267

Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Real leaders don’t play favorites, don’t get involved in drama, and they certainly don’t tolerate manipulative, self-serving behavior.

Blog 417

Blog Fashion Brand Self-aware 417

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 2, 2011

Toward the end of 2010, I began to think more about what it takes to lead in a world, which, through technology, is becoming smaller. Finally, before moving on to 2011, I went back to a post I wrote in June, 2009. Lise Reply Gwyn Teatro January 4, 2011 at 1:04 am Lise, Thank you. Check it out to see more of what I mean.

Review 46

Review Gilbert Diversity Blog 46

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. Three Images/Getty Images.

Strategy 11

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

Company 8

Company Business Model Price Technology 8

CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Each business model calls for different cultures and different reasons for these behaviors. Turning Technologies is a great partner of CO2 Partners and we use their audience response system frequently with small and large groups. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 It becomes an upwardly reinforcing system.

Strategic Planning 76

Strategic Planning Motivation Planning Executive Coaching 76

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Cost cutting and process improvements always have their place, but on their own accord don't constitute a sustainable business model. If all the focus is on cost effective provision of services as opposed to innovation around the development of better services a manufacturer will soon find themselves obsolete. What say you?

Blog 295

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The two biggest product stories of 2011 were arguably Lipitor and the iPhone 4S. Although the two stories could not appear to differ more, both offer business leaders strategic lessons that are intriguingly similar. Apple use life-cycle management to explore a new way to drive the business and business model forward.

Disintermediation 15

Disintermediation Industry Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. Cloud computing has accelerated this schism, because of its capacity to take the technology group out of the business of servicing other units.

CIO 11

CIO Information Technology Forrester Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. In the first kind, a company acquires another to strengthen its current business model. We call such deals "leverage my business model" (LBM) acquisitions.

Advertising 8

Advertising Business Model Audience Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

One of the most enticing global entrepreneurial opportunities these days is taking a digital business model that works in the U.S. Several students in my Leading Global Ventures class at Harvard Business School have done just that over the past few years, and many more would like to follow suit.

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Twitter acquired TweetDeck in 2011. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Take the case of IBM’s Watson , a cognitive-computing technology that allows humans to make sense of large volumes of data. Growth strategy Product development Business models Internet' Insight Center.

Levitt 8

Levitt Real Estate Business Model Early Adopters 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care System Cost 28

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. When trying to build new growth businesses, Christensen observes that organizations need to employ an emergent strategy-making process. Experimentation is required to build new businesses and industries. That was down from 9.7%

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Tourism Pharmaceuticals Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Wholesalers do not have shopper data, and do not have sophisticated technologies or expertise in mining the data.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., create a new category, extend current business) or innovation mechanisms (e.g., What is a business model (and how do I innovate one)? Build a business model designed around the low-end customer's job-to-be-done.

Innovation 16

Innovation Govindarajan Disruptive Innovation Business Model 16

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Technological innovations ranging from smartphones to Big Data analytics to cloud computing make it easier than ever for new challengers – especially those unburdened by legacy systems or brick-and-mortar networks – to gain access to high-quality market information and mass distribution. Google bought U.K. Germany, and France.

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

"This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.". Same business model architecture, two entirely different responses: obvious or unachievable. It's something that allows organizations to do things entirely differently — if we let it become the backbone of our business models.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16