Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Just as Southwest Airlines, for instance, has a low cost, point-to-point operating model that disrupted its hub-and-spoke competitors, Amazon has a radically different and better operating model that will crush any competitors who are making one change in nine weeks, while it is making changes every eleven seconds. Innovation Operations'

Software 9

Software Industry Productivity Products 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. They are acutely attuned to disruptive innovation, and their size makes them nimble.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future. Knowing that today’s operations will almost always win the lion’s share of resources, you need to consciously create a protected class of innovative ideas to invest in, even if money is tight.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Innovation vs. Regulation. Many organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, are saddled with trying to do business, let along innovate, under increasingly crushing regulatory environments. Optimization vs. Rationalization.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

But this approach doesn’t produce the most productive, innovative work environment. buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer). And when employees feel they can bring both their heads and their hearts to work, innovation and creativity thrive, and customers notice that employees authentically care about them.

Power 8

Power Outsourcing Self-aware Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The argument for the inclusion of the business community went like this: corporations have the combination of skills, resources, motivation, and agility to implement changes on a global scale. We’re an airline,” and a clean, VW-style ad that shows a Jetta with the text: “We’re sorry that we got caught.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. Exogenous shocks (new technologies, economic-political events) were incorporated as well to train players to stay agile and flexible. Games allow different scenarios to be tested.

Seminar 8

Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If it would have an immediate business impact, such as the impact that an airline’s loss of its reservation systems would have, then it is likely to be a key operational investment. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments. Development approaches.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

His book CULTURE RENOVATION: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company contains Kevin’s extensive experience and research into turning cultures into agile, innovative, and resilient powerhouses. Kevin Oakes is the head of one of the world’s leading HR research firms, the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp).

Open-book 101

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Definition Company 101

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Systems and Structures The first three principles of strategic leadership involve nontraditional but highly effective approaches to decision making, transparency, and innovation. By setting up ways for people to bring their innovative thinking to the surface, you can help them learn to make the most of their own creativity.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 21, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Jon Katzenbach, Laird Post, Jonathan Gruber, and Aurelie Viriot, featured by The Katzenbach Center at Booz & Company.

Motivation 70

Motivation Article Company Goal 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas.

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Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.” In the 1950s, Boeing was an insignificant player in commercial airliners. When Hiroshi Yamauchi took over the company in 1948, there was considerable resistance by insiders to innovation. ” A 2014 survey by Deloitte of top U.S.

Management 8

Management Drucker Survey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Digital CMOs are agile marketers who embrace the mantra “test and fail to learn and scale.” ” Gartner finds that, today, 83% of enterprise marketing organizations have an innovation budget that reflects, on average, 9.4% Here, a series of continuous experiments guide innovations that improve customer experience.

Storytelling 12

Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 12