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Strategy Driven
MARCH 21, 2011
Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 25, 2011
The daily deal industry, still dominated by Groupon, is in the midst of rapid-fire innovation, presenting new opportunities — and some significant risks — for merchants. But merchants should be cautious and skeptical about these innovations. And often steep ones at that. Dholakia is the William S. Mackey, Jr. and Verne F.
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The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
The problem is, these technologies don’t appear to be making a difference to productivity figures, or subsequently the wages and wellbeing of people. It’s a refrain with a strong heritage, with Robert Solow famously remarking that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics” back in 1987.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 7, 2011
If you want your customers to care about product quality, give them a choice. This finding is great news for marketers who focus on value creation. Especially in situations where consumers typically refine their preferences at the point of purchase, we can expect that choice engages interest in innovation and quality differences.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2015
As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 7, 2016
Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2016
In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. But over the last two years, Daniela Simpson, the director of marketing, helped it achieve 15% revenue growth per year, which is seven times higher than category growth. Small brands are important here for a few reasons.
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