Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession. Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results.

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Team Price B2B Tools 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In stark contrast, at a disruptive organization like Google, innovation is built into jobs through " 20% time " projects — engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time on projects that are creating and testing new ideas. The pace of change and disruption in today's marketplaces will only increase.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Employees skeptically prepared for yet another exhausting effort to transform the company into an efficient growth engine. Instead, right from the start, he, along with Ron Williams (who joined Aetna in 2001 and became its president in 2002), took time to visit the troops, understand their perspective, and involve them in the planning.

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. The marketing team was getting lost in attribution, pulling the same search engine marketing levers, talking to the same audiences, and creating the same campaigns with diminishing returns. The situation was untenable. Not Albert.

Retail 8

Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001. But that doesn’t square with reality. It was so close.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. Kodak wasn't blind to this shift.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Think of word processors replacing typists or engineers using AutoCAD software. recessions (1991, 2001, 2007–09) have been jobless, meaning that employment was slow to rebound despite recovery in total economic output. production and operatives). The recoveries from the last three U.S.

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Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. ” His Box 2 speech had an impact within Elfun and its turnaround became a symbol of transformation for GE as a whole: “…Today [2001] Elfin has more than 42,000 members, including retirees.

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Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In the fall of 2001, shortly after 9/11, I was invited to deliver a presentation on an integration of ideas from W. Even if I had one, in all likelihood it would be a video of a simulated assembly operation of a rocket engine. The bigger be the coverage, the bigger be the possible benefits, plus the more difficult to manage.

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Deming Teamwork System Reference 28

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness. It must be included as part of a formal Strategic Planning and Visioning process.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Indeed, the gap between firms in the top 10% by productivity and those in the bottom 10% increased by approximately 14% from 2001 to 2012. The pay gap between the top- and bottom-paying firms in the same sector has increased by more than 12% from 2001 to 2012. ” How Trade and IT Fit In.

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Productivity Products Policies Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them. .”

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. For example, Carbonite now operates several directly-owned or reseller-owned data centers deployed across Europe. That was in 2001. We’d be asking U.S. jurisdiction.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

The switches could, if bumped or weighed down by a heavy key ring, cut off engine power and disable air bags. According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”.

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Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. supply base: The United States suffered a net loss of nearly 19,000 manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2015, according to our analysis of U.S. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Chemicals Uncertainty Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. Lakhani then provided the dates at which Nokia had offered those features: an app store in 2001 , a touch screen in 2002 , a web browser in 2006.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion. The growth of SOEs.

GDP 8

GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. These requirements were put into a ticket queue as tasks for the next available engineer to start working on. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8