Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

For example, GE incubated an energy storage company (“ Durathon ”), which has gone from the lab to a $100 million business in five years. And after accumulating significant experience with this portfolio approach, GE is focusing today on fewer things that they’re incubating in a bigger way. They have branded it “FastWorks.”

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

For instance, Jane Chen and Rahul Panicker, Stanford graduates and co-founders of Embrace , worked closely with village pediatricians and patients in rural India to iteratively optimize the design of their breakthrough portable infant warmer — which costs less than 5% of incubators sold in the West (which are typically priced around $20,000).

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Innovation Incubator Banking Hypercompetition 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. This is most common in accelerators and incubators, where a new organization is set up as a microcosm of the parent company and made up of people from every major function and discipline.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Isn’t it better to hasten Joseph Schumpeter’s process of creative destruction and move capital and employment from inefficient dinosaurs to more vibrant and agile upstarts? I give them three reasons. First, timing matters. That’s not to say big companies should go it alone. The inspiring idea had clear potential to make a global impact.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Agile methods and Scrum are creating space for individuals to self-organize and work in iterative processes. Start-up factories, incubation hubs, living laboratories, and hotspots for innovation are springing up in cities around the world. There are indications that this is happening.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Startups must be agile and adapt their value proposition several times until they get it right. They should take their teams and regularly walk the aisles of Whole Foods, which is as much a greenhouse incubator of the hottest new brands as it is a retailer. They should explore up and coming datasets.

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Company Brand Venture Funding Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

He cajoled, pushed, and pulled the company into a client-centric, agile structure able to customize delivery of IBM's software assets, hardware assets, and intellectual property. Palmisano reorganized IBM into a "globally integrated enterprise" focused on worldwide collaboration.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Instead, inspired by the startup market, many businesses are experimenting with lean, agile product development processes, which benefit from customer insights, participatory design, and prototyping. Lean UX : In many cases, the best way to embed UX thinking in your product development teams is not to focus on design as a specific competency.

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Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. Incubators, accelerators, business networks. Programmers, UX/AI, MBA, agile product/project manager, other specialists…. In my management 3.0

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Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. Decisions that once took weeks can now be made in moments as the team works together.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA. ” Incorporating rapid programming practices (“ Agile ” and “ Extreme Programming ”) to bring significant time-to-market and productivity benefits also required new and different skill sets than what were traditionally found within GE.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility. During Phase I of the study, we did extensive research into the businesses of music industry innovators: the merchandise strategies of Tyler, The Creator, the joint ventures of Jay Z , and the tech incubation and investing of actor Jared Leto.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 7, 2015

One of the main things gained through established trust is a team’s improved agility. Ron is the founder of the nonprofit social enterprise incubator Manna Energy Foundation and Fragile Oasis , an effort to use the orbital perspective to inspire positive social and environmental action.

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