Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” In other words, Larry Page sees Google as a broad portfolio of science, technology, and Internet-related resources that can be leveraged into almost any meaningful new venture. This is quite understandable.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Recently, information technology research and advisory company Gartner compiled a list of top 10 strategic technology trends. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. Computing everywhere.

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Trends Technology Pharmaceuticals Team 8

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Here is the rub and the reason why adopting this principle is so critical: in our experience, the priority initiatives turn out to be on new product, service, customer, and technology initiatives accompanied by an assumption that the organization has the capabilities to execute them.

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Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. What if you really do need to get the other team on board?

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Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 203

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

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Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. The private sector spends three times that , mostly on translational research intended to transform basic discoveries into new products. Yet the Valley of Death still remains. Killing Ideas Faster.

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Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. That’s because there are two primary types of uncertainty — demand uncertainty (will customers buy your product?) and technological uncertainty (can we make a desirable solution?) Consider the 2×2 matrix below.

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. If that''s what your team can achieve without you, just imagine what they might do with your support. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains.

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Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. We found that, for pharmaceutical industry CEOs, there is a statistically significant relationship between a CEO’s specialist background and the firm’s performance.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

Many leading American digital firms, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and Uber, have successfully expanded internationally by introducing their products, services, and platforms in other countries. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. Paper Boat Creative/Getty Images. market on China.

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Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We also found that a focus on innovation tends to go hand in hand with longer-term time horizons.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

With a better understanding of the marketing context, she has brought a new level of financial discipline and rigor to the marketing team. Intel formed a special Marketing ROI (MROI) team – a first-of-its-kind collaboration between marketing and finance. This has reframed the conversation to balance the interests of both sides.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well.

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Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Avoid generic terms such as results-driven , proven track record , excellent communication skills , team player. Lead global marketing and commercial operations teams with P&Ls up to $2B.” Strategy leader for brands with complex and diverse product lines. Develop award-winning, injury-reducing ergonomic equipment.

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Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Buyers usually first became aware of new products when a traveling salesman showed up at the door. Buyers used the salesman’s help to evaluate what products to purchase, especially for new technologies like clocks and sewing machines. But this doesn’t mean there will be fewer B2B salespeople.

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B2B B2C Uncertainty Forrester 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

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Tools Supply Chain CRM Technology 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Unless you follow tech companies, you might have missed the startling announcement by collaboration and communications software maker 37signals that it has decided to refocus the entire company on a single core product. 37signals has developed a dozen different products and services since its founding in 1999.

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Strategy Telecommunications Pharmaceuticals Software 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Here are some common examples: When pharmaceutical companies announce that a new drug has been "approved," they are actually saying that their researchers made some breakthrough discoveries as far back as fifteen years ago. She also found that some sales teams were able to hit their numbers despite these factors.

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Short-term Pharmaceuticals Long-term Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

5th Place: SmarterShade from Notre Dame created an elegant technology that adjusts the tint on windows, saving on building cooling costs by preventing heat gain. TNG Pharmaceuticals from University of Louisville developed a vaccine for a parasite that strikes cattle, costing the dairy and beef industry over $1 billion a year.

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Pharmaceuticals Entrepreneur Industry Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. As leaders, do physicians create a more sympathetic and productive work environment for other clinicians, because they are “one of them”?

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Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

These hurdles aren't unique to financial services — insurance, pharmaceuticals, health care and government all face regulation, to name a few examples. without any compliance process or technology in place.". Adopting technology that keeps pace with regulatory requirements is equally important.

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Nadathur's portfolio includes firms operating in drug discovery research, companion diagnostics, pharmaceutical analytics, reimbursement claims processing, patient relationship management, and specialty healthcare delivery for running clinical trials — and they all work together.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

While currently crippled by inadequate infrastructure in many countries, low- and middle-income countries will be the fastest-growing markets for pharmaceuticals and medical devices over the next decade. To do so, we enlisted one of our NGO partners to teach our IT team how to use geographic information systems (GIS). Redefine ROI.

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Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. Boston Scientific a few years back launched a secret project to reverse-engineer the technology of its single-source supplier of coronary stents. Google is now doing that with its Android products. This is tricky.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Her ability to lead and inspire — to become a change leader from her position as a mid-level manager — is helping her team produce results. When complaints to elected officials started mounting from property developers dissatisfied with delays, Girard pulled together a team from many divisions to address the problem.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylorism Taylor 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

If you can reinforce that focus in every decision you make — from mergers & acquisitions to new product launch to budgeting or cutting costs — it can help you win market share, generate sustainable growth, or even turn around a decline. But the rewards are profound.

Merchandising 14

Merchandising Budgeting Pharmaceuticals CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

You may ask, what are some risky investments that stand a high chance of failure but, if successful, enable larger technological leaps that promise earthshaking impact? Cosmeceuticals , for example, is the new industry emerging from the convergence of the personal care/cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Find Pivots.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

He appointed a special team to create an objective, transparent method for selecting the directors. After reviewing the roles and responsibilities of each board and the natures of the new businesses, the team derived lists of the skills each board needed. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Biotechnology Health Care Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

McKinsey teams are beavering away in places like the United Arab Emirates and the 'Stans — Turkmenistan, say, or Tajikistan — but they're as likely to be doing operations projects as pure strategy work. Or redesigning a company's entire store system and approach to customers. Of course not," he replied.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Advances in digital technology and their use in organizations carry huge promise to empower people at all levels. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff actively participates in conversation threads in order to stir the pot and keep current on the ways programmers and customers test the limits of his company’s products.

Tools 8

Tools CEO Mezzanine Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

arm of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim (BIPI). He emailed Christopher Tan, a marketer with an interest in mobile technologies and experience building applications, and within 36 hours, they had come up with a prototype. But, as we all know, bridging interdepartmental chasms is far easier said than done.

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Company Pharmaceuticals Health Care Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. Moreover, firms are often investing in venture capital-type organizations with the hope of striking it lucky with a new technology or offer. Take Motorola, for instance.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8