Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Suppose you were alive in 1884 and were approached by an aspiring entrepreneur who had developed the most efficient and durable horse carriage ever created. entrepreneurs. While inventors are more idea-oriented and entrepreneurs are more action-oriented, they both share an approach to problem solving that is non-linear.

Heron 15

Heron Shaw Entrepreneur Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

.” And yet the lean startup methodology, born in Silicon Valley as a way for startups to tune in to customer needs with limited resources, has been gaining major momentum inside big companies like General Electric, Alaska Airlines, Telefonica, 3M, and W.L. A faster cycle time for developing ideas.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. In my opinion, deregulation, as a whole, has worked negatively upon business and society (banking, airlines, trucking, and broadcasting), and the SEC is no exception. Running the business.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas. As Ries writes, some entrepreneurs hear "minimum viable" product as "smallest imaginable" product.

Ries 15

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. It might be to optimize the tax implications of new development.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Software Construction Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. Southwest Airlines exists in a class of its own in large part due to its fun personality. My job is to sort out the companies with potential from those that need to go back to the drawing board. Hyundai is an -er brand.

Brand 9

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Organizations such as Y Combinator and TechStars have become magnets for some of the most talented US entrepreneurs by providing expert guidance with limited funds. In classic cases of industry disruption, such as in steel or airlines , incumbent firms have tens of thousands of employees.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. Live pilots are highly realistic but costly, time consuming and risky.

Seminar 8

Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In fact it was a truly bipartisan coalition that drove the de-regulation of the trucking and airline industries in the 1970s. Sharing economy entrepreneur, Shelby Clark, Founder of car-sharing service RelayRides, suggested the idea of metrics-based regulations. Government Technology'

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Southwest’s mission of being the low-cost airline drives everything it does, from the planes it buys to the routes it competes on. One of the greatest challenges of managing an enterprise today is that technology cycles often outpace planning cycles , so firms find themselves constantly having to adjust. Who would they talk to?

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

Some very well-known companies such as Whole Foods (founder John Mackey dedicates a whole chapter to love in his book Conscious Capitalism ) and Southwest Airlines (their NYSE ticker code is LUV) make explicit reference to love. The good news is that love isn’t as absent from our organizations as one might think.

Organization 8

Organization Power Reference Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, while we were one of the early companies to develop an ‘order online, pick up in store’ service capability, it took us years to launch because of the fear we’d slow down store operations. I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.”

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8