Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The system draws on the most successful model of value creation in the last century — the ecosystem of Silicon Valley, adapted for application by large organizations. What makes this a quest is that there is likely no product currently on the market or no existing demand from consumers. Invest Like a VC (Not a Banker).

Organization 10

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Yet companies across all sectors are trying to accelerate innovation so that they can break free from low-growth markets, differentiate, and sustain competitive advantage. Innovation cycles speed up and time-to-market goes down, and the resulting changes in the value chain compound customer demand for quality.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 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. Challenge R&D teams to create "good enough" solutions. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

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. The organization evolved into a weekly release cycle, responding quickly to the market and the competition. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies. Pricing and revenue modeling.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on. A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

In this company’s case, senior leaders who were criticized for not modeling the values quickly ousted their accusers for “not being team players.” “Urgency” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging and pressure from the Board is mounting.

Bottom-up 10

Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Workshop 10

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. Challenge R&D teams to create "good enough" solutions. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. 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

AUGUST 26, 2013

Requirements and specifications are more flexible and developed within cross functional teams with constantly evolving business needs. Service delivery is marked by a ''good enough'' approach to error tolerance, relying more on rapid iterations and short cycle times. They drive innovation and speed up time to market.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Getting Started. ” It’s working.

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. When organizations want to build a process culture, they need to identify leaders for each process improvement effort—namely an Executive Sponsor, Process Owner, Project Lead and Business Process Management (BPM) Team Facilitator. What’s in it for Me?

BPM 56

BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole. But the overall success of my organization does.

Agility 8

Agility Metrics Technology Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. When the knowledge base underlying a project is fragmented and project teams are scattered over multiple locations, miscommunication, conflict, and stalemates over crucial decision making are much more likely.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. When the knowledge base underlying a project is fragmented and project teams are scattered over multiple locations, miscommunication, conflict, and stalemates over crucial decision making are much more likely.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Faster times to market, greater flexibility on the way there, and greater focus on the customer — common results of a successful lean implementation — are all positives. New ways of thinking about opportunities must be developed by the board as a team. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

Innovation 12

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

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. Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

If you go around the room and ask members of the executive team “What’s our strategy?” “Speed” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging. The single most unifying factor of an organization is a widely known, enthusiastically embraced strategy.

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. Wellness checkups? Better working conditions? Return-on-equity hurdles threaten them all. ROE justifies the means.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12