Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries.

Price 10

Price Productivity Products Simon 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations.

Project 8

Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. Bain & Company recently surveyed about 750 employees across industries in Brazil, China, India, Germany, the UK, and the U.S. Sustainability Talent management'

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation. Now, drones are moving from the battlefield to your neighborhood, and it's about to create a brand new industry right along with it. This isn't just about building a better FedEx.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

More, bigger, faster" has been the rallying cry of capitalism for more than two centuries, since the advent of the industrial revolution. How would you feel if you knew the surgeon operating on you was racing through your surgery, while checking email, and writing texts along the way? That's what slackers do.

Simon 21

Simon Learning-by-Doing Operations Cost 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

The experts — middle management, analysts, engineers, consultants — aren’t asked to provide a comprehensive view of possible futures and their probability of occurring. Operations in a Connected World. Much of the failure of long-term strategizing arises not from its difficulty but from confusion about how to do it.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Supply Chain Outsourcing Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

And the impacts of policies will be highly specific in nature, degree, and speed for each industry and company. As we have described in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , businesses will need to adopt the right approach to strategy and execution, depending on the predictability, malleability, and harshness of each environment they operate in.

Strategy 10

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10