Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

As the IT industry continues to evolve, the question becomes more relevant: how does one build an IT organization that is both impactful and lasting? Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. About the Author.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. You call it this big bang disruption.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Suppressing Innovation.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid? Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid?

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Retooled industrial-age machinery sits alongside robotic-manufacturing equipment. Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. But just as U.S. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

While this might have been the most efficient way to train assembly line workers during the Industrial Era, human capital is now the greatest resource for most companies. In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. About the Author.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

Bond 10

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Looking to take an unsuspecting industry by storm? Each industry has practices that drive customers crazy," write the authors of Smart Customers, Stupid Companies. Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid? Is there something companies in your industry do that's just as stupid?

Disruptive Innovation 13

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 13

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

Industry 8

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

He has worked with a diverse range of companies across numerous industries, with a special focus on consumer packaged goods, healthcare, and advertising. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Project Management Best Practice 1 – The Project Management Intensity Continuum. All rights reserved.

Press Release 50

Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products. How Google manages.

IPO 15

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

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. And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Lets look at a company in an industry whose product is almost synonymous with the word commodity: cement.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. So how does it work?

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

But there is another, equally compelling reason why unicorns are dying: failure to innovate when competitors catch up. Unicorns operate in industries with big, entrenched incumbents, but they’re able to grow quickly by focusing on a good—sometimes big—idea. Decisions need to be rooted in insight and experimentation.

IPO 8

IPO Innovation Price Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions. cut of sales.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards.

COO 13

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

However, during the industrial age in the U.S., Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., In a similar vein, a new group of innovators is finding efficiencies not in separating people by age but by bringing them together. age segregation is often as ingrained as racial segregation.

Education 12

Education Absenteeism Efficiency Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Among the effects: 703 fewer new and competing research projects. noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08

Health Care 8

Health Care Budgeting Pharmaceuticals Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. of revenues).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Third, their external focus keeps everyone aware of emerging trends in the economy and the industry.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A 2013 article in The Ochsner Journal, titled “Just Culture: A Foundation for Balanced Accountability and Patient Safety,” concluded that “a fair and just culture improves patient safety by empowering employees to proactively monitor the workplace and participate in safety efforts in the work environment.”

Health Care 11

Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. One that is exemplified by efforts like GE’s Ecomagination project, which involves developing alternative-fuel engines and other products that address today’s environmental crisis and drive economic growth.

Brand 11

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Vision before action.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. Then, with the introduction of the iPhone, they didn''t.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. Shale gas will allow the US to be energy independent, create an export industry, and reduce energy costs. Lower costs are already making some industrial sectors more competitive. Granted, it''s not a perfect picture.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. The small-scale project would test a possible solution in a low-risk way, in 100 days or less, and without the pressure of having to be right.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Short of any singing, dancing, and costume changes, this sequence could have been taken from Bollywood, a movie industry widely known for its fantastical flights of fancy. Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments. Here, the government’s innovative capacity shone through. instead of 7%.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The “platform” is a new media company model that has been perfected by the tech industry. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects. ” Meanwhile, many publishers have solid brand identities that are alluring to platforms.

Business Model 8

Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.” Jeff Bezos.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85