Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. The merger was called off when the companies saw the DOJ’s tally, presumably because the parties expected they’d lose in court. For example, Express Scripts and Anthem were partners in the medical supply chain. Sometimes this model fits reality. competitors.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome.

Blog 295

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

For Jeco Plastic Products, 2011 was a landmark year. Yet, in the 33 years since its founding, international competition — a rising challenge to domestic manufacturers across the country — has threatened to erode the company's core business. In 2011, NDEMC selected CEO Lary Rosenboom of Rosenboom Machine Tool Inc.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Tools Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Machines improved the way companies email, call, offer a discount, recommend a product, show an ad, inspect flaws, and approve loans. in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. The impact on big companies. Structured data.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

The idea that companies should only maximize shareholder value has had a stranglehold on the business world for decades. In the fourth calendar quarter of 2011, Christmas shoppers snapped up 15 million iPads and 37 million iPhone 4Ss. So am I suggesting companies pursue unprofitable paths? It's time to rethink this assumption.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel Cost Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

And I could write a book on the topic of rare earth metals, those precious elements that make nearly every green technology possible and go into every iPhone. Smart companies like Hitachi are trying to find solutions, such as its new plan to develop rare earth recycling technologies. vulnerable to rare earth shortages."

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Many midsized companies dream of joining the Fortune 500 someday or of becoming the next General Electric, Microsoft, or Amazon. But they don’t think nearly enough about operational meltdowns – technological glitches and other problems that can put them out of business. Take Instagram, the San Francisco-based social media company.

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Cook had been running Compaq's supply chain with cutting-edge efficiency when Apple's supply chain was in a shambles. A supply chain expert at heart, he undoubtedly loves to tackle problems that require moving from A to B more efficiently. Fault Line #1: At the Top.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

” It wasn’t just one company, though; the whole economy was slowed by the extremes and volatility we faced. The disruption to operations and supply chains is real and costly, and all signs point to increasing threats as weather gets more volatile, driven in large part by climate change. .” Diversity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

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.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

So far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. With events like those that have changed the power dynamics throughout the Arab world, or the tsunami in Japan that disrupted many global supply chains, it's easy to think that the world is becoming ever more connected and interdependent. If so, you're in good company. 25%, maybe?

Globalization 14

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Audience 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. Some of it vanished when companies failed during those recessions. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries. As a result, companies of all sizes are increasingly hindered in efforts to bring new products and services to market by patent holders claiming infringement of even trivial features. patent litigation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A potentially catastrophic technological problem, an incomplete crisis response plan, misleading early information, divided private and public authority, ineffective initial actions. The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology. Yet, neither BP and the U.S. Decision-Making Processes.

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

There doesn’t appear to be any supply chain or heavy machinery to worry about. Let’s consider first the example of Blink Booking , which Rebeca Minguela started in 2011 after graduating from HBS. What do I mean by nondigital components? Minguela had observed the rapid success of the U.S.-based

Business Model 8

Business Model Hotels Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

But instead of spending hours in Best Buy or on Amazon comparing configurations and assembling the parts you needed, you could signal what you wanted and a company would create it for you. I've used his ideas for over 20 years of running companies big and small, and I consider myself a fan of his thinking.

Porter 17

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

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. Unlike at commercial companies, there was no senior leader who could mandate changes.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

"This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.". Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The most successful entrepreneurship is disruptive — a term entrepreneurs these days have donned as a magic mantle: “We have a disruptive business model, a disruptive technology, and will disrupt the market” goes the startup pitch. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Cook, In a recent article posted on this website, I criticized Carl Icahn’s call for your company to intensify its stock buybacks. In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994.

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The current Apple TV, as it stands, is a set top box that enables an end-run around the cable companies and lets us pipe movies and TV into our living rooms. As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. It may even change the city.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

As globalization has created longer and increasingly complex food supply chains, there has been a concomitant surge in demand for locally-sourced food. Some companies have ridden this wave. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. How can this be?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). by Hank Moore.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57