Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

They are frequently caught out by the future and seldom change in the absence of a crisis. Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. We will fail to make innovation an instinctual and intrinsic capability. Disruptive innovation Innovation Organizational culture'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Founded in 1966, Norwegian quickly became an innovator in its field as the first company to offer round-trip cruises that nearly anybody could afford. In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. An innovator? Customer-focused?

Company 8

Company IPO Price Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Many analysts and unhappy investors point to Tesco’s ill-fated Fresh & Easy convenience store foray in America just as the global financial crisis kicked in. At the same time, dramatically increased price competition by discounters such as Aldi severely undercut Tesco’s “every little helps” value proposition.

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Supply Chain Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations.

ROE 10

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 10

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

This company operates its democracy to the extent that: Employees set their own work schedules They don’t use the same workstation more than two days in a row so that no one really knows when they go to work or how long they stay. But what does a truly democratic workplace look like?

System 43

System Blog Diversity Operations 43

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

This is refreshing statement; many executives would have berated their employees for not keeping the faith while a company faced its biggest crisis. Since Sun made hardware and software, only Sun machines running the Sun operating system were allowed. (In Don't Enforce a Monoculture. Encourage Competitive Use, Don't Punish It.

Software 13

Software Wireless B2B Library 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis. Why buy clothes at its Kmart stores rather than at trendier Target?

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8