Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

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. We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

Agility 9

Agility Technology Development Content 9

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. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

The bulk of this agile canon will teach your individual teams to deliver higher-quality code, faster. But although the vocabulary the organization was using had changed, the qualities being evaluated in the performance management system, for every employee, reflected a different mindset. Go and See.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

A nine-year-old in Irvine, California, frustrated with the quality of videogame virtual-reality goggles, began tinkering with VR helmets he’d bought cheap from government auctions and hospital supply shops. Called Oculus Rift, it caused a sensation at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Reporters and gamers are clamoring for it.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Document Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made. So maintaining quality is the key criteria and cannot be compromised. Implementation criteria. Development approaches.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. While many startups fail because of poor execution, I would argue that the majority fail because their product has no market. First, it’s easy to talk yourself out of a good idea. The difference is in intent.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

None of these providers is rewarded financially for helping ensure that the desired clinical outcome is delivered with the highest quality at lowest cost across the entire episode. We have consistently observed that some providers deliver the same or better clinical outcomes at dramatically lower costs than other providers in the same market.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 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. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Some adopt rigorous quality programs to provide formal project management for global projects. Or begin building a capability in global innovation now to take advantage of lower development costs, faster time to market, and, most important, the ability to leverage dispersed knowledge to gain competitive advantage.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Some adopt rigorous quality programs to provide formal project management for global projects. Or begin building a capability in global innovation now to take advantage of lower development costs, faster time to market, and, most important, the ability to leverage dispersed knowledge to gain competitive advantage.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Top startups already have market leading solutions. Moreover, through venture clienting, startups gain valuable insights into technical, process, and quality requirements and the workings of an actual corporation, which helps them become savvier and more adept at business development. But only large corporates can offer the last one.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

We were a startup, and like a startup, we grabbed quality people, were hands on, and wore many hats. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. We were competing with the cool, Silicon Valley tech companies, yet at the same time we needed to find people who would fit in GE’s culture.”

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Companies across the globe are faced with new competitive threats, changing market dynamics, new technology disruption and evolving customer needs, and the pressure is on for companies to be able to sense and respond to those changes and deliver better products and services to customers, faster. Are we building the right thing?

Agility 8

Agility Metrics Technology Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

While the implementation has to be evolutionary and take into account existing installations and relationships in the value chain, the results promise to be revolutionary, with as much as 50%+ reductions in time to market and big jumps in productivity.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10