Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 11

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. The Future of Operations. The key steps: 1) Clarify three key objectives (called “hills”) framed as target outcomes for users for each software release.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. ” Your objective, according to Burris, is to “coach your employees on how to leverage their strengths by reminding them of times they excelled and felt competent.” ” Give specific feedback. You practiced beforehand.

Management 9

Management How To McCombs Project 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

That requires constant innovation, in both our products and our own operations. We’ve created an end-to-end electronic domain that connects all elements of product development – conceptualization, design and analysis, simulation and optimization, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operations and sustainment. Collaborate.

Operations 8

Operations Incubator Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

In essence, OneLeap runs something like an accelerated competition and incubator inside the company. OneLeap’s partnership with Kuoni began with selecting the right entrepreneurs for the project. OneLeap and the entrepreneurs help the company select the top ideas for prototyping. The prototypes then move through an intensive analysis phase.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

They understand that they often need new capabilities to realize these objectives. Of course, we can already hear the objections coming from the grizzled veterans of traditional M&A. These new organizations are likely to operate quite differently from traditional corporations. Consider today’s trends in M&A.

Incubator 8

Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

Incubated at Y Combinator, the venture was aimed squarely at the most important, most reliable, most consistent mobility need that consumers have every day: getting to and from work. Only when the service was successfully operating did Ford begin to expand it, adding dozens of new routes and growing its local fleet to more than 200 vehicles.

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Strategic planning fails when: It has fuzzy objectives Why is the company writing a strategic plan? It's important to create strategic options through mechanisms such as partnering or incubating new business models. How can RIM (and other companies in the same boat) chart effective strategy in uncertainty?

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

We currently operate in the era of ‘programmatic computing’, where data analysis involves heuristically searching for patterns in limited data sets, then performing operations on the result. Machine Learning Engineer: The objective of ML/DL is to develop a predictive engine for a specific use case.

Positioning 150

Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems aren’t simple, easily graspable objects; they are a construct we use to make sense of an exceedingly complex reality. These different objectives are natural and need to be understood in order to understand the entire ecosystem.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8