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 truth is that some of the problems we face today are simply too big and complex to be solved by any one organization. The Valley of Death. The Era of Big Science.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

For Jeco Plastic Products, 2011 was a landmark year. Two years ago, at the request of the Obama Administration, the Council on Competitiveness designed a public-private partnership to equip American manufacturers with the high performance computing technology needed to out-innovate and out-compete foreign competition.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Tools Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Challenged by other entrepreneurs in Scale Up Milwaukee’s Scalerator program to come up with a plan for rapidly ramping up his business, Cronce wondered: “What if I redefined Raphael as a strategic link in the global medical imaging supply chain, rather than as a paint shop?” Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

shale oil and gas producers have been ramping up production to take advantage of rising crude oil prices — prices that had been rising in the wake of a deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Russia, and other non-OPEC producers to reduce oil output. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. These organizations move in lockstep, because everyone understands what’s important. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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? Can you change the way a large organization — such as the federal government — does its work, when all the forces are arrayed for stability and conservatism?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

” Known more politely as “patent assertion entities,” these companies buy up unused and often weak patents, and then strategically sue technology companies large and small, claiming ownership of basic components of products that have long been in the market. Kraft , delivered a blow to so-called “patent trolls.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Size once gave organizations purchasing power. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. Porter's value chain is well suited for this mass-market, cost-driven approach, where customers remain at the end of the value chain.

Porter 16

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Like the rising temperature of the water the proverbial frog is sitting in, organizations are feeling the social era all around them, but failing to notice how significant a change it has produced. It's something that allows organizations to do things entirely differently — if we let it become the backbone of our business models.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The greening of the supply chain. Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers. Was a year like 2011 likely ? But please.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

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 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. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. But after the chain was linked to outbreaks of E. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 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. Looking Forward to 2011. China, China, China.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Any company or organization is like a tree. There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train. This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. I advised several technology companies during their gravy years. by Hank Moore.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. The coordination of business transactions within and outside an organization will speed up, and in the process, eliminate organizational friction and facilitate market collaboration.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8