Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. Research & development Financial management' So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

And that is part and parcel of professional life. “People spend so much time in their own heads, thinking about their idea, that they fail to draw the connection to how the product will improve someone else’s life,” he says. Before he developed his pitch, Damian did his research. Stay calm and don’t brag.

Skills 19

Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Many of the nation’s most beautiful and productive cities — New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and others — abut the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. What will this adaptation look like? economy be crippled?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Many British firms have been slow to recognize the direct correlation between corporate empathy and growth and productivity. Technology.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Given the growing importance of data to every aspect of their business, they know they must develop an understanding of the costs of poor data quality, shortcomings in the methodology notwithstanding. First, develop a keen eye for non-value-added work. Of course, true leaders know this is no excuse. Customer billing is a great example.

Quality 14

Quality Parcell Cost Deming 14

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). If you are not building an organizational culture that rewards “Successful Failure,” employees will not take the initiative to experiment and invent new products and services.

Letter 90

Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 90

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. Taken together, this research points to the fact that most leaders just don’t get what their organizations are trying to do.

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

They not only grow their current business but simultaneously develop the next one that, ultimately, will enable a graceful transition from the first. Increasingly, businesses need 2-in-1 leaders to help cope with everything from globalization to quickening innovation to shorter product lifecycles. Are our new ideas big enough?

Parcell 11

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. Some of these are old scores reignited by new protagonists armed with new weapons, but quite a few are new clashes.

Retail 8

Retail Technology Content Chief Technology Officer 8