Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Fostered global teamwork.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Tapping into your outside experts to help in the development of internal employees is a valuable way to address the needs of both. Experts are often looking for ways to help junior people in their profession, and younger employees are hungry for training and development. Provide Channels for Sharing Knowledge.

Mentor 8

Mentor Agility Team Teamwork 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The free flow of workers between companies is central to economic growth and innovation. Yet employers are increasingly taking legal action to prevent former employees from using knowledge and skills learned on the job. Employees’ incentives to learn on the job are weaker if they cannot use that knowledge later in their careers.

Incentives 12

Incentives Policies Innovation Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks. But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. But that's a good thing.

Media 8

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

With the first approach, companies seek significant mismatches between their existing organizational capabilities and the markets they serve. They ask: Where are opportunities to introduce something totally unexpected in a market we already serve, with an offering we can deliver tomorrow with little additional investment?

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The paper draws on the broad social capital literature and the toolkit for building social capital developed by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. That policy did not come from the marketing department, even though it is prominently advertised today. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Health Care Cooper Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. Managers can no longer take months to develop requirements, then wait for IT, then tell IT that wasn''t what they wanted.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured.

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. As one client once told me, “It’s as if I were at a farmers’ market with all the most amazing fruits and vegetables, and I can think of a hundred recipes that I would love to prepare.” Execution Knowledge management' In some cases, they’re right. For you, it may be different.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

To pursue a knowledge network strategy, you have to first map your critical knowledge assets, then decide how to deploy them strategically. Which will you hold on to as deep, tacit insights, which will you develop, protect and legally enforce, and which will you proactively share?

Tacit Knowledge 14

Tacit Knowledge McKinsey Core Competence Document 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Potentially, the streams of data coming just from social media and smart phones can help to predict shifts in the market, uncover fraud, explain customer behavior, and improve decision making like never before. The explosion of data available to organizations today truly is extraordinary. Please join the conversation. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

Webinar 8

Webinar Open-book Information Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lean innovation is being embraced by everyone — from the smallest start-ups to the largest global organizations. And that’s where the money is in innovation. And that’s where the money is in innovation. Lean innovation embraces a philosophy of not letting progress get in the way of perfection.

Innovation 8

Innovation Six Sigma Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

Businesses primed to leverage these technologies to streamline everything from supply chains to sales and marketing will be riding the wave’s crest. As AI and blockchain morph into accessible cloud-based services and no-code environments offer an open invitation to all, the era of democratized innovation stands before us.

Supply Chain 103

Supply Chain Loyalty Content Efficiency 103

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

No wonder more and more executives are championing experimentation over (or as a precursor to) time-honored analytic approaches like strategic planning and market research, as we showed in our previous post. Approaching half (46%) of companies with 11-20% growth prefer it, while well over half (56%) of companies with more than 20% growth do.

Analysis 14

Analysis Constraint Transportation Strategic Planning 14