Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

As the Age of Austerity dawns, however, corporate leaders will have no choice: they will have to bite the bullet and infuse their organizations with a frugal mindset. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage. In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Drawing on a conference he organized on how the US legal system could be changed to better promote entrepreneurship, Litan points out that the scholarship of law and economics "has been largely about what economists call 'static efficiency' rather than 'dynamic efficiency' or growth."

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

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. Basic budget and scheduling data are important signposts to steer the IT project organization. The Building Blocks of Successful IT. It''s C-Suite Problem.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. These PMs excel at reflecting on where each of these competencies contributed to the success or failure of their products and continuously adjust their approach based on customer feedback. Pricing and revenue modeling.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. It was time for me to learn how and why agile was working. Insight Center.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

As the Age of Austerity dawns, however, corporate leaders will have no choice: they will have to bite the bullet and infuse their organizations with a frugal mindset. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage. In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Cloud-based services are also now being bought directly by functions like HR and marketing, resulting in IT losing its control over technology purchase within the organization. Digital capabilities are about methods, processes and people — and a truly digital IT organization is different from traditional IT.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

For some time now we’ve been living into a smarter world filled with Big Data and analytics, and a more connected one that’s been described as “ the internet of things.” This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

If your company is a successful organization, it has many excellent leaders. But those leaders have had training and experience to succeed in a traditional organization with a C-suite at the top and siloed business units and functions under each executive. He is oriented outward to the full organization.

BPM 56

BPM Process Tips Management 56

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.

Agility 8

Agility Metrics Technology Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Every organization needs what I call a “hierarchy of purpose.” Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. But many organizations do it badly.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Responding to this promise, many companies have started putting these ideas to use: A recent study of 170 organizations with $1 billion or more in revenue found that over 82% are currently using a lean startup approach in some aspect of their business. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. What is missing from this equation for growth?

Innovation 11

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

For example, we’ve seen at least 15 corporations put “one” in front of their name (as in, “One Acme”), as they launched campaigns to dramatically increase interconnection across the organization. Declaring big targets in lieu of having a real strategy. As if that would work.

Mission Statement 8

Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? We think there's more to business success — and that something as straightforward as a simple equation could put capitalism on a better path. It is logically the product of return on sales times the ratio of sales to assets times the ratio of assets to equity. Wellness checkups?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12