Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

Efficient, uniform operations are table stakes in the modern business environment. Having perfectly designed and executed operations is an impossible goal, but it is one we must continue to strive for. It’s hard enough to keep operations efficient inside a company, but new regulations can present special challenges.

Operations 8

Operations Constraint System Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. The negotiators achieved their goal and closed a clever and profitable deal. Boston Scientific a few years back launched a secret project to reverse-engineer the technology of its single-source supplier of coronary stents.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Several of the great success stories of corporate ethnography have 3M engineer Richard Drew as their protagonist. Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” “And what we learned was sobering.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. These requirements were put into a ticket queue as tasks for the next available engineer to start working on. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But the real heroes are operating with automobiles and roads and whole systems of support without which they couldn’t be heroic. Has it, on the other hand, done some of the things that used to be goals of business in the ‘40s and the ‘50s? A great example of this on the ground in Mountain View where I live today is Google.

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Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 11