Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous. The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. But despite all the pain they have experienced, these industries are wrong.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

You’ve probably already heard of the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across many industries and applications. For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models.

Agility 9

Agility Technology Development Content 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

It can be argued that in many industries substantial numbers of digital applications — for example, online channel to customers and ERP systems — have become so pervasive that they have become mandatory for survival in the industry. The organization currently depends on these investments for success.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But high performance companies in industries worldwide are digitally monitoring and measuring their people more comprehensively and rigorously. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts? Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. Continuous Development is a growing trend in the software industry. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner. By August 2017, it took an average of 3.5

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

By empowering renters and seekers with relevant data conveniently delivered through the smartphone, Airbnb is disrupting the entire travel industry. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market. APIs and platforms reduces the time-to-market for products and services.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

I don''t care what industry you''re talking about.". IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. They drive innovation and speed up time to market.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity. Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, reduced time to market, and slashed the cost of development. The result? Seize the Cash.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It was in 1990 that George Stalk and Tom Hout of BCG published Competing Against Time , pointing out that time was an unexploited aspect of competitiveness. Out of their work came a new business focus on "time to market" and "cycle time."

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

“Urgency” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging and pressure from the Board is mounting. Instead of amending their actions, they amend the values, choosing words antithetical to the known cultural norm needing to be cured.

Bottom-up 10

Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Eventually, they found a great solution in an unlikely place: the music industry. Analogous solutions are extremely beneficial to businesses because they reduce time to market, and they can get stalled projects moving again. But for a long time they weren't easy to find. Problem solved.

Software 8

Software Innovation Sharpe Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

A lot of business literature advocates teaming up wherever possible to open the doors to new ideas, draw on the unique strengths of others, and speed time to market. New ventures face this question early on, whether they are housed inside big corporations or small start-ups.

Contract Manufacturing 11

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Emerging markets like Africa, India and China offer Western engineers a great training ground to practice frugal simplicity. For example, Siemens, the German industrial giant, is using its R&D teams in India and China to develop minimalist solutions that deliver higher value to customers.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. and of course the compensation and benefits.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. After four years, systems had been tinkered with so much that new product launches became not only prohibitively expensive but also needed a very long time to market. In 2008, RIM tried to match the new competitor.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Emerging markets like Africa, India and China offer Western engineers a great training ground to practice frugal simplicity. For example, Siemens, the German industrial giant, is using its R&D teams in India and China to develop minimalist solutions that deliver higher value to customers.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0 Industrial automation is an evolutionary process. In this regard, talking about a “fourth industrial revolution” can be misleading. A change made anywhere in the process becomes visible and accessible to everyone.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

“Speed” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging. A toxic culture, pervasive unwanted behavior, or a need for organization change can prompt leaders to ramp up focus on “values.” ” Underneath the pithy words is often the insidious intention to correct.

Mission Statement 8

Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In contrast to the labor-intensive cut-and-stitch process that has defined the athletic footwear industry for decades, Nike figured out how to knit a shoe from the sole upward in one piece, using a single, highly configurable machine.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. Just as electronic commerce would later sweep business, mass production came to one industry after another. But unlike websites, factories were capital intensive.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

automobile industry over the last five years. While production is approaching all-time highs, the percentage of parts that come from U.S. You have to understand these fundamentals to craft trade-policy prescriptions — which, by the way, I think the free trade agreements largely do: A thick supplier market.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8