Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

These “ nexus suppliers ” could be important for one or both of two reasons: A disruption of its operation would have a surprisingly huge impact on the original-equipment manufacturer’s production. (A The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And it is strangling both US competitiveness, and the ability for US firms to innovate. Former congressman and CIA director Leon Panetta described it as "legalized bribery"; something which has just "become part of the culture of how this place operates.". It seems to be happening more and more frequently, across sectors: Automotive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Until recently, it operated mostly in European, American, and Japanese markets; those markets demanded high-functionality measurement capabilities. But, as with so many other products and services, the equipment cost too much. Initially, AVL tried to introduce those rich-world services into the Indian market. Options for self service.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Companies based in developed economies can learn much from the Mars mission about competing and operating in emerging markets: Create an audacious, inspiring goal. Emerging economies have the bulk of the world’s population, yet most of them are non-consumers of products and services that we take for granted in the West.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

Designers and entrepreneurs have been experimenting with live prototyping — putting unfinished product ideas in the context of real markets and real customer situations — for years, and now bigger businesses have begun to catch on. Consider investing more per customer, rather than investing in the operations that deliver quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Too often, though, managers set what appears to be a good stretch goal, only to discover that it did not produce the hoped-for innovative thinking. It demands innovative thinking. To illustrate how intentional goal conflict can product breakthroughs, consider these. Product Innovation: The Lexus.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? With target in hand (if possible), your next step is developing your best estimate of how much potential exists within your current products and services. Calculating organic growth. But this is not cause for alarm.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Robots have been doing tough jobs for over half a century, mostly in the automotive sector, but they’ve probably had a bigger impact in Hollywood movies than on factory floors. Some of them are no longer bolted to the factory floor, and they’re moving beyond automotive manufacturing. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Consumers in the United States are used to buying products that are made in China. You may think this is an issue for tomorrow—when Chinese firms are known for being innovators instead of imitators, and when their overseas investments are not limited to natural resources in Africa and Latin America. and other developed markets?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. Tesla’s initial strategy began like a start-up: to build a minimum viable product to test the market. He clearly believes there is more innovation to be had with the two businesses combined.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2% for laggards.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Collaborating horizontally to create customer value.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

If you want to understand the future of Tesla, and Elon Musk’s role in it — something many are keen to do, given the spate of negative headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th century. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S. economy. .”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Arizona, one of the leading cities for autonomous vehicles, is the proving ground for this transformative innovation. This fleet of driverless cars — 600 Chrysler Pacifica mini-vans, operated by Google’s Waymo — can be seen today daily on the streets where companies like GM and Ford also are testing autonomous innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. To figure out how to effectively integrate software robots and digitization, executives can take some cues from the automotive industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

based companies are repatriating their manufacturing capabilities — moving some production operations back from overseas. The reality, however, is that less and less of that demand is being filled by stateside manufacturing operations. In the automotive industry, for example, the U.S. million cars annually.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

It will ease the way for companies launching and updating digital products, but it presents steep new learning curves that companies will have to master if they are to be successful. In more and more businesses, physical objects are no longer the primary basis for innovation and differentiation. Growing Digital Business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In order for Nissan to actually pursue the Vision Zero goal, the company is forced to think differently about innovation and product development, developing technologies that keep cars from hitting each other. Rethinking products and how you talk to your customers at the same time is systemic thinking at its best.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. From the beginning, self-driving vehicles have proven to be better drivers than most human operators, since software is able to learn as it goes. traffic deaths.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Consider the automotive industry. automotive manufacturers owned rental car companies in the hopes of maintaining strong unit sales figures by captive fleet purchases (which were also to maintain volume to fulfill their onerous union obligations). When things change, outmoded metrics can threaten a firm’s survival.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg’s “platform” reference has elicited many comparisons of Oculus to Google’s purchase of Android , the company that would provide Google with its own smartphone operating system. Disruptive innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This unique identity not only made flying Southwest fun for passengers, it made its labor force more productive. The organization is able to turn on a dime when necessary and adapt to changes in the external environment; Innovative. When Alan Mulally became CEO at Ford in 2006, the company operated in regional silos.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast. They are supply-side architectural innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

The five largest automotive companies in the world generate more than 750 billion euro in annual revenue. Today’s cloud IT vendors have both the buying power and the operational discipline to minimize the cost to the customer of a unit of data storage or computing power.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. Kalanick gets the same on Didi Chuxing’s board, and Uber gets around a 20% share of the Chinese company, which will run Uber’s Chinese operation as a separate brand.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion. It’s that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Incumbents aren’t threatened by these vehicles because they are dramatically inferior, but each improvement brings the disruptive product closer to the minimum performance requirements of the least-demanding mainstream customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

The majority of these gains will be realized from better management of pre- and post-production processes – the rest will continue to be derived from the actual manufacturing or production. Each new car costs the automotive OEM anywhere from a few to several hundred dollars in extra cost. Operations in a Connected World.

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