Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment. We have found that most organizations’ entry, or “onboarding,” processes share a common goal: to inculcate the organizational culture and teach new employees the job requirements. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

Power 8

Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. That is to say, you’re not going to prosper if your products and services are designed solely by folks on the inside. Pitfall #5: Delaying the process of going social.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

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.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Indeed, India's Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. But we believe that multinationals from rich countries who are already developing products for one emerging market possess unique advantages that can help them win in other emerging markets too.

Marketing 11

Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Ellen Kullman , CEO of DuPont, talked about the innovative public-private partnerships DuPont's India unit has forged with various state governments to increase the productivity and profitability of farmers and improve food availability by making resilient seeds available at affordable prices.

Business Model 15

Business Model Bottom-up Entrepreneur Incubator 15

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 305

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. And so Apple has.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

The standard ball design combines hexagons and pentagons, cut from rectangular sheets of artificial leather called rexine, which is by far the most expensive material in the process. With the minimum-wage guarantee, workers had little reason to fear the new dies and helped in the process of implementing them. Not necessarily.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. This should be the dominant theme of discussions at the highest organizational levels in place of things like product quality and sales.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. To find out, Gimmy and Meyer designed the new organizational unit with a set of processes and a startup program based on the venture client model.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

It is startups who have generated virtually all of our nation's major technological breakthroughs in the last hundred years — from cars and planes to semiconductors, PCs, software, and the Internet — and in the process sparked the creation of whole new industries and millions of new jobs. Big Business is not a major job creator.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. On a productive day, aside from the mountain of dead trees (recycling hadn’t been invented in 1982), stacked polystyrene coffee cups and an overflowing ash-tray, there would also be a satisfying thick sheaf of “concepts.” We were just shifting product.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Getting the funds that you need from tight fisted management is an ongoing process. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. These are ways to advance your funding process: Put money in management’s pockets.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

With a wealth of expertise available via outsourcing, one can quickly become a ‘kid in a candy shop,’ wanting whatever is readily available or craftily packaged. A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). Let the buyer beware.

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

McDonald’s or KFC might have their own inspectors on-site at the largest chicken farms and processing centers. Chipotle aimed to differentiate itself from other quick-serve restaurants on the basis of using local ingredients and local sourcing of its products. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

But a focus on information processing, reaction, and execution — while it may feel productive — causes the quality of our thoughts to suffer. She comments, “Thinking is the one thing you can’t outsource as a leader. ” Others concentrate reflection in a single day.

How To 13

How To CEO Kahneman Armstrong 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

A major reason for the decline in manufacturing employment in recent decades is the huge increases in the productivity of American factories. With those productivity gains likely to continue (a good thing), it is hard to imagine how manufacturing could ever return to its glory days, when it employed about a quarter of the U.S.

Health Care 9

Health Care Biotechnology Industry Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

Organizations constantly replace outdated computers, servers, laptops, copiers, and countless other types of electronic devices to keep up with technology and enhance worker productivity. Applying established incident-response procedures to the process of ITAD can help raise awareness of unappreciated vulnerabilities.

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Class Information Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

I had been a member of the board since 2011 and loved the brand and everything it stood for. Operating profits are at unprecedented levels, organic sales growth is north of 25% and our asset productivity, through the implementation of lean processes, has shot up. I did not want the company to liquidate.

Fashion 8

Fashion Operations Brand Retail 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Discovery-Driven Growth : A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity by Rita McGrath. You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company’s full portfolio of opportunities – from new product lines to entirely new businesses. Japan, Infosys, and Sagentia in the UK. But most of your customers don’t care.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50