Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

For most companies, both M&A and organic growth are managed like rocket launches. Once launched, the opportunity is micro-managed to ensure that everything goes according to plan. This might have worked in the past when markets moved incrementally. The first step is to find a founder’s quest.

Organization 10

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. Still, that frustration is a natural part of agile innovation. So, take the initiative.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. The trick for entrepreneurs and digital innovators, then, is to use a bricolage strategy to obtain modern digital infrastructure and tools to transform existing businesses or conceive and build new ones.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. But just then, the CEO interrupted and asked the product managers in the back row of seats, "What are the weaknesses with this roadmap?". Some long seconds passed.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But this was the first time attending the event where so many of the top-tier athletic luminaries—particularly coaches and managers—spoke so wistfully and ambitiously about the analytic alchemy that can turn teammates into champions. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts?

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. There is no time for complacency. Service delivery is marked by a ''good enough'' approach to error tolerance, relying more on rapid iterations and short cycle times.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time. Managers have come a long way in the past 20 years toward appreciating its role in their strategies. 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.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. The portfolio tool can be used as a common frame of reference in management discussions about a number of areas.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 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. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. paul garbett for hbr. However, they hardly represent the transformation that has been promised with this new approach.

Innovation 12

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

As I’ve worked with companies for 30 years, I’ve observed a recurring management vice I’ve called “faux-hesion”… the institutionalized pretense of unity. Most companies have published values, like integrity, innovation, teamwork, customer service, sustainability, or respect.

Mission Statement 8

Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. The number of people affected by an innovation.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

And because it focuses on acute episodes, REBP acts as a necessary complement to payment and care-delivery models designed to improve prevention and chronic-care management. Finally, REBP gives payers a way to prepare for the future, when episode-based performance management is likely to be a required capability.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8