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. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

I had the energy and motivation, you know what it’s like to commit mentally and emotionally. David: Yeah, I must say I’m actually jealous of how you’re able to muster the energy to do all these sorts of things. I’m for an example a visionary processor, which is not at all unusual in consultants.

Brainstorming 60

Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. electrical energy consumption, and the U.S. Buildings are responsible for about two-thirds of U.S.

Content 8

Content Efficiency Energy Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In fact, veterans of some of the world’s most successful tech companies often look with skepticism, even disdain, on efforts to build strong management skills. The premise is that all energy should be focused solely on turning fabulous ideas into hyper growth. Recruitment and retention take up significant mindshare for most leaders.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

This is due to constraints like lengthy implementation processes and inflexibility to adapt as business conditions changed. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling. Turns out that isn’t the case today.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

This is due to constraints like lengthy implementation processes and inflexibility to adapt as business conditions changed. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling. Turns out that isn’t the case today.

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Taleb uses the natural world as a model for this principle: “Layers of redundancy are the central risk management property of natural systems,” he writes, pointing out how many of our biological systems have doubles (like lungs) or backups. Managing uncertainty Risk management Sustainability' Fast feedback and failure.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

For example, aerial images from satellites or drones, weather forecasts, and soil sensors are making it possible to manage crop growth in real time. And SunCulture , which sells drip irrigation kits that use solar energy to pump water from any source, has made irrigation affordable.

Technology 13

Technology Supply Chain Entrepreneur GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives. We watch as they work around institutional constraints and build a network of colleagues who are eager to help.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Feeling safe is a primal human need. Carl had a Ph.D.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

While time constraints make some of this filtering necessary, having a layer of handlers who make their own decisions about what the leader should or shouldn’t see exacerbates the isolation. Several years ago, for example, I worked with a senior executive who was competing for the top job at his firm.

Execution 8

Execution How To Banking CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

A*STAR Managing Director Low Teck Seng used that phrase to describe how Singapore appears on a map. He described how the country's small size allowed it to be more nimble, reminding the audience that sometimes constraints can foster innovation. For example, "beauty" means fair skin to many Asian consumers and tanned skin to many U.S.

Innovation 14

Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Other telecoms are offering solutions such as smart parking and waste management systems. A wave of public and private investment worldwide is going into making cities smarter — but that doesn’t change the fact that most municipal governments are working with serious spending constraints.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Feeling safe is a primal human need. Carl had a Ph.D.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

She started an eponymous foundation focused on understanding a better way for the economy to manage its resources. We have three billion new middle class consumers coming into the world and there's more and more pressure to find out how to manage these resources. Does the circular economy decouple growth from resource constraints?

Company 9

Company Apparel Engineering Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Put the past in perspective, not as a set of constraints or excuses, but as a springboard to new actions. Consider the following examples, which illustrate what I call "kaleidoscope thinking," a mental process of shaking up the pieces and reassembling them to form a new pattern, the way a kaleidoscope creates endless patterns.

Constraint 17

Constraint Entrepreneur Globalization Media 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Put the past in perspective, not as a set of constraints or excuses, but as a springboard to new actions. Consider the following examples, which illustrate what I call "kaleidoscope thinking," a mental process of shaking up the pieces and reassembling them to form a new pattern, the way a kaleidoscope creates endless patterns.

Constraint 16

Constraint Entrepreneur Globalization Media 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider these examples: 1. Power Generation: Husk Power Systems (HPS) creates small-scale power generation in rural communities in India by converting rice husks (a commonly available agricultural byproduct) into energy. We've seen these partnerships increase organizational capacity by: 1.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

From where we sit, both sides have legitimate beefs: IT complains that, despite the increasing penetration of technology into every nook and cranny of the business , it doesn’t have a seat at the table and no one understands how difficult their jobs are given the constraints under which they operate. Information & technology IT management'

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Edith Penrose, one of the most prominent management thinkers of the 20 th century, agreed. Take, for example, the challenge of bringing about any major innovation in healthcare. But in general, the newness of the business behind them imposes important growth constraints.). How would a management team change that?

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategy Company Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

A surprising number reach for deep changes in the world, going well beyond the expected and narrower kind of goals like “reduce energy use 10%.” And they take into account the stark realities of a world dealing with resource constraints, climate change, and other mega challenges.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

What do you need to change as the manager and what do you need to ask your direct report to do differently as well? “One-on-ones are one of the most important productivity tools you have as a manager,” she says. But workday pressures and time constraints often get the better of us. What the Experts Say.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products How To Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Cosmeceuticals , for example, is the new industry emerging from the convergence of the personal care/cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. An effective way to create creative discontent is to ask questions that shake people up. Apple created the online entertainment business retail pivot.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

One of the best examples of a wise leader is Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy (also known as "Dr. Aravind has become a business example of compassion, as well as proof that wise leaders can radically change the world by following their North Star. North Stars align our energy, emotions, and actions in the service of our vision.

Self-aware 15

Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

When we talk about natural resource constraints on business — such as shortages in water or increases in the cost of energy or agricultural products — we tend to forget how deeply intertwined these commodities are. Facing these clear resource constraints, businesses will need to adapt, and soon.

Energy 12

Energy Supply Chain Constraint Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.) But a lot can get lost in the averages. The result: a shortage of good growth ideas.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

For example, the city of Nice, France, started by focusing on a single boulevard – and through adjusting street light intensity based on pedestrian and traffic peak periods, and on real-time weather conditions such as fog and rain, the city expects to save 20 percent to 80 percent on its electricity bills. Proceed cautiously.

Technology 8

Technology Content Constraint Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

No definition of specific areas where the company should focus its energy. We have seen far too many first hand examples of the equivalent of blue paint on a decrepit school wall. Executives often think that the best way to spur innovation is to remove constraints, to let hundreds or thousands of flowers bloom. And that was it.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Six Sigma Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Let me give you an example. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints. This is genuinely world-changing in its potential. So case closed then: Leapfrogging rocks, and once its full bloom encapsulates Africa the world is our oyster.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

By removing things one creates self-imposed constraints, but also clarity and a cleaner context for inspired innovation. You want to give the most time, energy, and service to those who will provide the greatest long-term reward and loyalty. I have never been able to quite manage that, but subtracting out a third works for me.

Power 9

Power Document Self-aware Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Take the example of one of my clients, a Fortune 200 consumer products company. As the VP of global risk management told me, the most expensive events in company history in every weather category (flood, earthquake, hail, wind, etc.) The problems and costs of extreme weather are the same either way. occurred in the last few years.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

Specifically, the industry has a great deal to lose if it doesn’t understand and manage global mega-trends, such as increasing pressure on natural resources, rising demands for transparency, and global action on climate change, which affects all energy-intensive companies. No industry can afford to keep increasing emissions.

Energy 8

Energy Trends Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

We checked in with HBS professor Forest Reinhardt, co-chair of the school’s Global Energy Seminar, for a backgrounder on how business people are thinking about sustainability. Here’s just one example. If solutions appear to impose unfair constraints on that population, they aren’t going to fly.

Price 8

Price Constraint Resources Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

For example, coffee. What are the constraints?". We need energy. So we are doing everything 24 hours a day thinking about how to increase our energy capacity. We keep sending our people to institutions of higher learning in the sciences, engineering, and management. And we said, "You know what? How do we upgrade?

Porter 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". The math and physics of a planetary constraints get clearer. In reality, both views were right. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

He pledges to reverse reforms that improved labor-market flexibility and private-sector participation in formerly protected industries like energy. In our survey of 30 Brazil country managers in October, 20 reported increased revenue growth, despite the country’s dysfunctional, scandal-ridden politics.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9