Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore.

Planning 62

Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 62

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore.

Planning 60

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships.

Case Study 8

Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

In my May 2012 HBR article "The Trillion-Dollar R&D Fix," which is part of the Spotlight on Innovation for the 21st Century, I show that if the top 20 firms traded on U.S. Here's a table that accompanies the article. R&D is the basic engine of economic health. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Metrics Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

Detailed with more than two dozen case studies, Brand Relevance lays out the four key tasks required to attain brand relevance: Finding New Concepts. Brand Relevance provides the tools companies need to generate innovative offerings that can create long-term financial success. Evaluating a Concept’s Prospects.

Brand 56

Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I explained this in an article that was published in Harvard Business Review in 2008, before any of those companies began, and, now, 10 years later, that still holds true, as more and more of the business discourse is focused on digital transformation. In other words, they had great business models.

Business Model 12

Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is the context Tracy Goss, Richard Pascale, and Anthony Athos talk about in their article. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. The case studies the authors outline in the article are familiar to me.

CEO 8

CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Intranet: Like many companies, we have an intranet, and this is where groups of domain experts across disciplines and locations can share knowledge in the form of presentations, whitepapers, and case studies. Magazine: frog produces a print magazine several times a year with articles by external experts and frog staff.

Knowledge Management 15

Knowledge Management Management Directory Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. Theyve been finely engineered, instead, to do. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. So they started asking a few key questions: How can we go from what’s been working well, to go even further? How can we go even faster?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 8