Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Yet it also gives you an agile way to work: you don’t waste time or dollars when there are no results, and you develop a fast-fail mentality to learn what works and what doesn’t. Now, companies invest in ways that support a smaller, more agile approach so they can adjust as they find out what works.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

The developers then pass the releases to the operations group, where the software is tested for three weeks to make sure the complete system is stable, for a total cycle of nine weeks. This represents a truly disruptive management and operating model. Innovation Operations'

Software 8

Software Industry Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

To analyze EvD, determining the relative importance of data to an enterprise’s balance sheet, its ability to effectively compete, and its operational capabilities is a good place to start. Meaningfully defining EvD will help ensure that corporate accounting and risk management standards take into account present day realities.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Herb Kelleher fosters a culture of employee empowerment and cost containment at Southwest, enabling the airline to become one of the world’s most admired and profitable carriers. Southwest Airlines is the classic example. When Alan Mulally became CEO at Ford in 2006, the company operated in regional silos.

Airlines 9

Airlines Automotive Competitive Advantage Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. General Electric Operations' GE is an icon of management best practices. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

As such we struggle with the tension between the desire to boost innovation and the need to operate under increasing regulation. This is a stifling tax on a company’s capacity to find creative approaches to solving unmet customers’ needs. Optimization vs. Rationalization.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Scale drove consolidation and globalization of industries throughout the mid-twentieth century and it still does today, such as in steel, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. Scale and efficiency are mostly about competing by lowering costs.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Instead of making the leap to an entirely new form of organization — a radical change not without its pitfalls — perhaps we should think more seriously about the problem of agility itself. Southwest’s mission of being the low-cost airline drives everything it does, from the planes it buys to the routes it competes on.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer). In 2011, with 605 new Wipro employees across three different operations centers as our participants, we conducted a field experiment testing whether an authentic approach would lead to greater performance and retention than the traditional entry approach.

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

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. Among the companies that use this practice are Southwest Airlines, Harley-Davidson, and Whole Foods Market, which have all enjoyed sustained growth after adopting explicit practices of transparency.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

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. This approach can be applied beyond product features to business models and operating approaches as well.

Ries 16

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 16

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Whether or not that outlook begins to uptick not only depends upon how agile, adaptable, creative and resourceful entrepreneurs can be in planning for, or reacting to, market conditions, revenue and brand-building opportunities and other key concerns, but also how well they maintain a forward-thinking mindset. Transparency. About the Author.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Loyalty Airlines Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

American Express does this, too, with its Open Forum site, which publishes editorial-style content for managers and operators of small and mid-sized businesses. Digital CMOs are agile marketers who embrace the mantra “test and fail to learn and scale.” Experiment aggressively, and challenge business model assumptions.

Storytelling 11

Storytelling Brand Audience Marketing 11