Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Still skeptical?

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley was built on amazing products, not on stellar leadership skills. My prediction is that in the next five years, we’ll see a focus on people management catch on with the same enthusiasm that product management has in Silicon Valley and beyond. Rule 1: Know your audience. Rule 2: Simplify. Rule 3: Embrace constraints.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital. In fact, this is unlikely.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). While these factors will remain important, in the next decade China must put greater reliance on productivity growth — the ability to get greater output from existing labor and capital stocks.

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ They will copy your products, your prices, maybe even your marketing. I explained how to develop this special attitude of change. And he nailed it with that statement. Everything changes. Permanently.

How To 293

How To Open-book Learning-by-Doing Marketing 293

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” Every discipline is experiencing accelerated development, and the rapid knowledge obsolescence that goes with it.

Innovation 16

Innovation Education Survey Training 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Companies in commoditizing industries tend to follow one of two strategies: either they try to find new services to offer around the product or they compete on price. Lets look at a company in an industry whose product is almost synonymous with the word commodity: cement. And where there are customers there can be differentiation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

In these two fictitious scenarios, Company B does better in communicating the risk of its product. It has provided certainty, through a concrete number, that can enable better decision making on the expected performance of the products. Both communicated risks associated with their products, but Company A did not do much.

Engineering 14

Engineering Document Construction Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. Companies based in developed economies can learn much from the Mars mission about competing and operating in emerging markets: Create an audacious, inspiring goal. Global business India Innovation Product development'

Innovation 9

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. Let’s first consider the productivity of capital and labor. What economists call “total-factor productivity” (TFP) measures how much output has been raised from those inputs of units of capital and workers.

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007). The core values. Where the company is located.

Company 16

Company Short-term Engineering PR 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

My recent paper , coauthored with Naoshi Ikeda and Sho Watanabe of Tokyo Institute of Technology, empirically tests this quiet life hypothesis with Japanese data. Do managers really work less hard without competition and monitoring? Left to their own devices, do managers really prefer the quiet life?

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Technology has undoubtedly ushered in progress in a myriad of ways. In 2010, Eric Schmidt, then the CEO of Google, shared a concern with the world : “Every two days, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization until 2003. Create a “stop doing” list. There are only so many hours in a day.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Collins Committee Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions.

Energy 10

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Data promises a lot of new value, from insights that lead to better-targeted advertising, to ideas for new products, to "this changes everything" discoveries — the "expensive" half of Brand's observations. The key lies in developing and exploiting "proprietary data" — data that you and you alone possess.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. But also it is about developing a capability for reacting publicly, quickly and rapidly. You cannot afford defenses that will fully protect you. These can be exceptionally dicey situations.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Ideally, these warnings provide requisite risk information, allowing people to decide for themselves whether an activity or a product’s benefits outweigh its risks, whether to take those risks, and, if so, with what precautions. Warnings on widely used consumer products are a relatively new phenomenon. How did we get here?

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

After Bodek left, the suggestion system was led by Yorke, Technicolor's manager of organizational development. Some departments started trying it and some developed a few sharp ideas, which generated excitement. In 2003, the first year of the program, 5,000 ideas were volunteered. Attrition declined, saving on retraining.

Process 13

Process How To Attrition Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Google has a history of launching products in languages that fall outside of the mainstream. Its flagship search product has been available in Irish Gaelic for many years, even though the language has only about 133,000 native speakers, all of whom also speak English. of the world''s GDP. One of those conditions?

GDP 9

GDP Company Niche Marketing Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Couple the lack of transparency of marketing generally with the shock of new technology, and you get anxiety over information use that increasingly translates into calls for legislation or regulatory intervention. New laws aimed at specific technologies, however, are the worst possible outcome. In the U.S., It''s also misguided.

Morale 8

Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

If you think more about industry, you might imagine a mechanical arm programmed to install parts on a production line. By 2003, there were 800,000. Technology' If you’re into movies, you might imagine the android from the new movie Chappie , a machine with artificial intelligence that learns morally questionable behavior.

Definition 8

Definition Ethics Industry Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

The Department of Defense, which had originally opposed the deal, reversed course when it finally occurred to government officials that if we did not sell the Rumanians this technology, others in Western Europe would. Universal Oil Products did ultimately build a $22.5 The Rumanians awarded the contract to Firestone. and the U.S.S.R.

Licensing 8

Licensing Politics Crisis Management Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) To understand the strengths and weaknesses of different process religions, develop a network of people with experience in each one.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

By 2003 I could no longer speak intelligibly or walk, and any muscle control became more difficult as the disease progressed. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. Marion Barraud for HBR. I was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2001. Manage the feedback flow.

Argyris 8

Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 313

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. Amazon has almost single-handedly bankrupted Borders.

Business Model 61

Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 61

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. That is 6 million lives – 100 football stadiums of children – that could be saved each year.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

When Robert Greifeld was asked to take the helm of Nasdaq in 2003 to execute a turnaround, he came with a new story. Overhaul Technology 5. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions. A very clear and well-told story. Get the Right People on Board 2. Reduce Bureaucracy 3.

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Organization Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Technology 256

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In addition, its broad distribution network aimed at same-day delivery in many markets (through Amazon Flex , its “Uber for delivery” service) may also make the immediate delivery of certain prescriptions along with one’s groceries or other products a reality. So where is the link to health care? Data analytics.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

In North America, less than 1% of all the resources we extract from the earth are actually used in products that are still around six months after their sale. And I believe developing more resource-efficient business models will be the largest single financial opportunity of the twenty-first century.

Resources 8

Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

Innovation 11

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11