Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

At the Chemical Heritage Foundation's recent seminar on advanced materials innovation, a half-dozen R&D leaders collectively commanding billions in spend couldn't have been more excited about the market potential for their new materials. But getting the most innovative materials to the most innovative customers fast remains a challenge.

Innovation 11

Innovation Budgeting Chemicals Seminar 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal. Create an online community for your process team.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Team Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Harvard Business Review found that teams with a shared purpose and uniting values showed a 17 percent increase in performance , highlighting clearly why setting good work culture examples is important. Microsoft Under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Microsoft has embraced a culture of inclusivity, innovation, and continuous learning.

Examples 97

Examples Company Diversity Team Building 97

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team.

P&L 12

P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our innovation team, at 45 Park Lane, in London, started by compiling data about our guests’ clothing behaviors and our hotel laundry processes, getting housekeeping and bell staff involved, as well as searching social media for customer posts. A cotton polo shirt retails for about $29.95

Hotels 8

Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In industries like retail, customer service, and hospitality, entry-level turnover alone costs billions of dollars each year, based on voluntary turnover rates and annual replacement costs. The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be. Case studies on companies that have failed to invest in IT innovations, and the resulting business impacts--usually disastrous--abound. The result?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The director oversees training and education, helps teams on group problem solving and team building, and oversees employee engagement. Scibelli himself came from the retail sector. in a group called "Talent Development and Performance/Innovation/Productivity Improvement"). Luke's Healthcare and Lowe's.

Process 13

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Etsy analyzes technical challenges on its public engineering blog , opens its professional development workshops to the local coder community, publishes success stories on its Slideshare channel, and gives away code on its GitHub repositories, all to help other software-centric firms accelerate their own learning and growth.

Company 9

Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Too often, marketing puts out a new advertising campaign, a new value proposition, or new messaging for the sales team with the expectation that the sales teams will just start using the new language, almost as if they were changing the content on a web page. In the beginning of a disruptive innovation, the thing to measure is not ROI.

Execution 12

Execution Strategy Metrics Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? For example, Intuit’s marketing team spends time with self-employed people in their homes and offices to immerse themselves in the customer’s world. The marketing team instituted a welcome program to help improve the experience for new plan members. What makes marketing creative?

Creativity 14

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

For one recruitment-process-outsourcing client, consultants found that the existing process involved the same data being checked by several teams in different countries. The first, Lloyds Banking Group, the largest retail and commercial bank in the UK, is currently deploying enterprise-wide RPA rollout as part of its end-to-end $4.1

Process 12

Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

The leaders of these organizations immediately got the concept that the philanthropic community stood to benefit by converging on a day like this, in the same way that retailers (even though they compete aggressively) all take part in and benefit from Black Friday. Encourage innovations on the theme.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Yet scaling is also a problem of less.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

day, scale-focused workshops and related activities. Four cohorts later, the average growth of the 56 Scalerator companies has been 48%, with over 1,300 new business contracts (excluding retail) and the region’s first exports. A plastics subcontractor launched a line of proprietary pet toys, doubling headcount to over 50.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. At an entrepreneurship ecosystems workshop I ran in St. Mayor Thomas Menino launched the Boston Innovation District in 2010 with his fifth inaugural address. Even better.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. ” Healthnet acted quickly and systematically on this insight.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Pearl, his VP of marketing, had learned that their rival Berlinger was launching a line of gem-accented watches, which would be sold exclusively through Shanguang, China’s biggest jewelry retailer. “So,” Song continued, “we’ll need to think about more innovative ways to generate buzz here.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Brand Simon Marketing 8