Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Innovation success stories are all strikingly similar: a bright idea, supported by a zealot-innovator who sees it through. This is especially true for business model innovations — when the new idea is not a product, service, or technology but a different way of engaging with the customers and earning revenue from them.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation Company Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Planning to do work , and usually procrastinating, instead of productively working out just-in-time solutions with just the right resources. . Breeden believes that there is a significant flaw in leaders who embrace beliefs without understanding and managing their side effects. Dopamine is our bodies’ pleasure chemical.

Chemicals 186

Chemicals Creativity Cooper Learning-by-Doing 186

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

But it will be important for managers to know when to use each of these types of deals. A decline in economic uncertainty in 2014 will now support bolder strategic moves by managers. The business remix that I see ahead will mash up the resources of companies to create new value.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. So why are sustainable products surging now?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. The result will be innovation. Andrew Liveris.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technologys pavilion will demonstrate "industrial energy savings and the comprehensive use of resources." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. And look for more materials, resources, and exclusive HBR research in the coming weeks. This library is the start of our effort to build collaborative resources around these questions.

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Since the industrial revolution, we have been able to get away with relying on natural resources to raise our standard of living. But as these resources become scarcer and more expensive, we need to find new ways to create a more sustainable environment. This was the focal point of the recent Paris Climate Summit.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chemicals Engineering Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Too many knowledge workers — professionals with immense talent, experience, and drive to do meaningful work — are stifled by managers who misunderstand what effective management means. If they often get overridden by management, people quickly lose the motivation to make any decision, which severely inhibits progress.

Chemicals 15

Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. Part of the reason for this pattern is that other priorities compete with safety for an organization’s resources, including managerial attention.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources. Automobile manufacturers, for example, create products that rely on metals, chemicals, oil, and gas, which are among the most energy- and water-intensive industries. Find ways to value water and price carbon in all future investments.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. Not so fast.

Planning 9

Planning Benchmarking Project Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.” They frequently divert sufficient resources to participate in emerging markets. Spotting something and doing something about it are very different things.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation. ” This attractive, apocryphal quote breaks down upon inspection. Who takes the hit?

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

If it were up to me, I’d put more resources into space exploration.) This may all change as China innovates and grows. Our economy is shifting, as it has done many times before, with sectors like energy, biotech, medical devices, healthcare, advanced robotics, automation, and supply/value chain management growing quickly.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence. Provide time for leaders to practice key skills with their managers and receive feedback. Wellins, Ph.D., Goldman Sachs. 2014) Womenomics 4.0:

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job?

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

These leaders are recognizing that this balance drives the innovation and market understanding they need for other key business transformations. This makes it near-impossible to invest the time and management focus needed to effectively adapt to a gender balanced workforce and customer base. How did he do it?

Diversity 8

Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

In nature, barriers — between organic and inorganic chemicals, between land and sea, between species, between everything — have been built, tested, overcome, rebuilt, and overcome again with almost endless repetition. Organisms in nature, despite being constrained by resources, have evolved multiply redundant layers of security.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Open-book Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These companies are notable victims of a new reality: resources are constrained and input prices are fundamentally rising. China, China, and China.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

At UCB, a medium-sized pharmaceutical company headquartered in Belgium, Heresh Rezavandi and his managers Michelle Maddix-Sovero are leading a young strategic intelligence function that’s part of the strategic marketing practice. It also began innovating new services offerings to diversify its portfolio.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Thanks to this extreme focus there is no need for complicated processes, expensive equipment and underutilized (and expensive) resources. Due to the simplicity of their product lines, their organizations avoid complexities and intricate structures, resulting in very lean management hierarchies.

Succession 8

Succession Simon Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

As one middle manager told me, “No one was willing to go to management and say, ‘Let’s redeploy everyone, including myself, and do something else because this project isn’t working.'” At IBM, mid-level managers also serve as the first line of defense for cross-functional escalation issues.

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Team Project Software Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets. They rely on the resources and follow the overall direction that the body gives them.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

According to executives surveyed by the Collaborative, access to difficult-to-find technical or functional expertise, speed, flexibility, and innovation are the top five drivers of using talent outside your organization. How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

It has “bet the company” on AI, says the New York Times , committing huge resources and scooping up many of the leading researchers in the field. Entirely new business lines and markets will spring up, which will, in turn, give rise to still more innovation. And its efforts have borne fruit.

Technology 8

Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. One energy hog, the IT sector, has managed to level off energy use in data centers. days of innovation). Trump Shocked the World. Levi’s Shared What It Knows about Water.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8