Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar. In addition, stoves are difficult to transport from demo to demo.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

.” When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering. Engineering graduates are good at solving problems. On a similar note, last week, I gave a keynote speech on reverse innovation to students at University of Alabama in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

But for entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate innovators clamoring to build these businesses, it’s important to recognize that not all opportunities in this market are created equal. When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing.

Transportation 8

Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Falling trade barriers, inexpensive energy and low transport charges further strengthened the case for making products overseas. for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas. Or that China surpassed the U.S.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. billion people.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. Dirk''s answer was: "We can save on transportation and be closer to our customers. We can have engineering work more closely with production. They visited the furniture manufacturer Herman Miller and auto supplier Autoliv to see what mature Lean operations looked like.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

But to Sweden-based SKF Group — the leading company in the $76 billion global market for ball bearing systems — these objects are heroic, destined to become the “brains of rotating machinery” by transmitting data to boost performance, reduce downtime, and prevent accidents.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Increasing the social media marketing budget is not digital transformation. Even building an app is not digital transformation.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” And the market for software talent was hot hot hot.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. This consideration explains why CEO pay has risen much more than worker pay.

CEO 9

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Transport on the line was so unreliable that crops in the areas it served were routinely left to rot in the fields during the harvest season. Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up."

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. Pharmaceutical companies are mastering bio-engineering techniques that will help develop personalized medicines. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, which helps it attract world-class engineers who share its mission. Tesla’s mission “to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport” transcends car manufacturing. Wal-Mart and Sears. Netflix and Blockbuster. Google and Yahoo.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In an industry that involves selling machines that transport humans at fast speeds, the notion that employees wouldn’t be encouraged to discuss safety seems odd. In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time. Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Housewife | homemaker | domestic engineer. Marketing can be either inward or outward. Companies undergo marketing campaigns to promote products and services to potential customers.

Transportation 64

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 64

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

But in addition to such familiar jobs such as engineer, consultant, or financial analyst, we’re increasingly seeing new job titles emerge: forensic technologist, digital storyteller, and marketing automation manager. Labor market data tell us that these “hybrid” jobs are rapidly on the rise.

Education 8

Education Engineering System Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see. As I described in an article in the May issue of HBR , a single 3D printer can produce engine pumps one day and crankshafts the next.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. Mining automation market will reach $3.29 Mining companies are increasingly moving to the latest automation technology to modernize their operations. billion by 2023. million ounces of gold. MarketsandMarkets Inc.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). A small number, but these are also small markets.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. What’s Driving Industry Concentration. IT Does Matter.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Likewise, where mechanical engineers once predominated, the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly looking for software engineers, energy management experts, and data scientists able to build electric and self-driving vehicles. Similar patterns of cutting and hiring are visible in last week’s announcement.

Industry 8

Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This is data that comes through search engines, social media platforms, loyalty points and other digital transactions, such as dynamic cookies. The rich data set allowed the organization to create a new skin care product based on real-time consumer market through a consent-led platform. Read More from Microsoft.

Content 8

Content Niche Marketing Discount Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Automatic lane-change or braking systems, electric power steering, complex engine controllers — all require microcontrollers and power semiconductors. It incorporates engines assembled in North Carolina with turbine blades made in Mississippi and a low-pressure section from France. Nearness to market. Far from it.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8