Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Agile development laid the intellectual groundwork for the Lean movement in entrepreneurship, which further pushed business leaders to organize their business model and product development work around a series of experiments, testing critical hypothesis along the way. Maximize engineering productivity.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Founders focus on finding new markets to solve existing but underserved problems. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer). You also can’t think like an engineer and try to remove every possible risk or uncertainty. The second step is to test like an entrepreneur.

Organization 10

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

They typically hire third parties to help them with IT and never make it part of their core business. These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Insight Center.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Strategic investments are critical to future business success. They create or support a transformation in how the organization conducts its business, with the aim of providing competitive advantage. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8