Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

An old-fashioned process, proposition innovation starts with companies — not consumers — and entails developing products and services that aren't based on consumer feedback or profiles. In most of these fashion houses, a single designer (sometimes, a small team) is the only source of innovation.

Innovation 14

Innovation Power Fashion Travel 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

Marketing 11

Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Can he do it?

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The most common reasons provided for why the business was not profitable were: starting a business venture which is not well prepared, bad management of the venture, or extremely strong influences of market distortions. That is because owners of small and medium size businesses focus mostly on the product and how to sell it.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition. In 2005, McKesson invested in a David called RelayHealth that was in the connectivity business before connectivity was hot.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. Second, you’ll spearhead a series of processes necessary to keeping transformation alive: observe and speculate, prepare and adapt, inspire, and persevere. What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? Observe and Speculate.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Despite conceptually understanding that this change mandates fresh strategic approaches, Roger Martin (among others) has highlighted the mistakes companies continue to make by relying on processes and tools honed in a differently paced era. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Given its current approximate market cap, we could call this the $640 billion dollar question.). While I'm not above the feverish speculation about what exactly will be unveiled, the phrasing of the message struck me as having something to say about Apple's approach to innovation deeper than just one product launch. measures of.

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Press Release Technology Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

On the one hand, there is widespread fear that innovation will lead to a loss of jobs and rising income inequality — the “race against the machines” narrative. On the other, the slowdown in productivity growth across advanced economies has led some economists to argue that new innovations have no impact on growth.

Video 10

Video Technology Education Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. They''re rethinking their economic relationships with the rest.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

The EU has spent twenty years trying to create the kind of market conditions needed for explosive growth seen elsewhere in the digital economy. ” Hiring and firing is a relatively easy process for both sides (with notable exceptions for discrimination based on age, race, and gender). So far, nothing has worked. And quickly.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

This includes a new open innovation program that encourages ideas to reduce greenhouse gases from Canadian oil sands production — the same controversial, greenhouse-gas-heavy source of fossil fuels that environmental groups are fighting against when it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline. Is it a marketing campaign?

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. The process was simply less rigorous. Happened in 2005 and was unquestionably the right move. And it's a shame. IBM-Lenovo.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. A misunderstood story. digital-camera sales (No.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The product's performance didn't live up to early press releases and has struggled in the market. This pundit makes predictions about markets that she doesn't participate in. Back in 2005 I wrote a piece [ PDF ] looking at a new video recorder introduced by Pure Digital Technologies, the Flip. The projector. The freeze framer.

Press Release 12

Press Release Strategy Long-term Video 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

I first wrote about these contemptible "information" graphics in HBR in 2005, and since then they've only seemed to multiply. See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy — which generate profits that we invest in innovation!" I aim to change that. Who could argue with that?

Maturity 9

Maturity Energy Consultative Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. Day one of the 100-day planning process was a particularly somber one. Rather than panic, London's leaders have been both innovative and fearless in finding ways to "make more from less." This is not even a marketing partnership.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. The PC division was sold in 2005. It's a safe bet that resumes are already in play. HP Invent is an empty slogan.

Tips 10

Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based These high marketing and coordinating costs may be the cause of its problems today.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

It then leapt suddenly to 14% by the 2005–2007 period. So although you might expect that in a hypercompetitive environment, ambitious companies would constantly wrest market share from the leading firms, the reality is quite the opposite. The proportion rose slowly and relatively steadily, reaching 5% by the mid-1990s.

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ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. With the minimum-wage guarantee, workers had little reason to fear the new dies and helped in the process of implementing them. Not necessarily.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. This innovation made it cheaper for carriers to deploy base stations, and was popular with European carriers. Their system of rotating CEOs helps support a gradual, more democratic decision-making process.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” In 2005, when Prof. Comparison of outcomes is essential to disseminate innovations from one individual or team to another.

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8