Development Leadership Operations Time to Market 
Strategy Driven
JUNE 29, 2016
How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. Resistance from the Supplier.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2018
Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 26, 2013
IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. It requires new modes of operation.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 17, 2015
Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 19, 2017
While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2016
Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
For example, the idea that market share leadership leads to cost leadership which creates defensible advantage is a dynamic argument. It was in 1990 that George Stalk and Tom Hout of BCG published Competing Against Time , pointing out that time was an unexploited aspect of competitiveness.
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