Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Advanced tools for creating and testing new products and the operations that will make them are all around us. They are not only changing the economics of innovation and operations, they are also pushing the frontier of what’s possible. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Small Business Administration Business Plan Engine. Santa Clara U’s MOBI is an initiative of its Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Leavey School of Business. These plans are tailored to meet your financing requirements which is a huge bonus for those seeking funding through banks.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands. Opportunity is on the rise in Africa.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Many businesses have shut down, with many more having to drastically alter their operations to support social distancing or new patterns of consumer behavior. Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation. Unnecessary hurdles. “Much of that is by sheer necessity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The global banking industry faces two opposing truths. On the other, the crisis in the euro zone has forced banks to rethink their investments in numerous markets, if not retreat from them altogether. The result is a chasm of opportunity — a vacuum ready to be filled by banks from both the emerging and developed worlds.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Virtual financial services firms such as Wealthfront and Betterment are siphoning investments from established banks through a great mobile app and a website. Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages: Dramatic reductions in the time it takes to make critical product enhancements.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

I got this question from a process leader at a UK bank. He had read my post, “ Where Have All the Process Owners Gone? , ” and contacted me because his bank has had success in managing departmental processes, but is struggling to crack the cross-functional, end-to-end management of processes. (An Not fine tune, but innovate.).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In her underappreciated book, The Innovation Killer , Cynthia Barton Rabe, a former innovation strategist at Intel, explains how "what we know limits what we can imagine." Ten years later, after a period of massive growth, the company sold itself to TD Bank in a stock transaction worth $8.5 billion — not a bad decade.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 Not so fast.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Folks at Danone learned it from Grameen Bank Founder Mohammad Yunus, who asked them to consider putting Danone’s special formula nutrient in an edible cover, not a disposable package. We live in a complex world.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

And digital innovations will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity. Fulfilling technology’s potential will require leaders to recreate the way their institutions operate in a world of digital ubiquity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. It allows organizations to create value in a world filled with, as the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Sounds good; “New investment in innovative technologies” makes a great headline for the next earnings call or annual report. companies in the study generally view digital technologies as a way to streamline existing operations and improve customer relationships — not as an engine for growth. Indeed, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

Critics complain that the institutions supporting microfinance have become too greedy, and many are using this as an argument to deeply regulate or, even more, cut support to microfinance operations. India recently introduced new regulations for microfinance operations. And all of those innovations are opportunities for businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile, and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. They had lots of these projects.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Gledhill is Group Executive and Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank, a leading Asian bank with more than $300 billion of assets and a market capitalization of about $35. “It has given me such a depth of awareness about how devices operate and what they are capable of,” he said.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Even the big banks are getting social. Universities are rapidly growing their engineering courses.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Innovative companies such as WeWork provide offices “where and when we need them,” giving professionals the opportunity to be part of a curated network and to share intellectual and physical tools. Drawing an analogy to banking, they rent long and lease short.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The other is a process called Opportunity Engineering (OE) that instills a different way to look at value. Horizon 1 (H1) represents the current core operations of a company that produce the cash flow needed to sustain operations, to meet investor expectations, and to invest in future growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Despite the Wall Street-engineered financial avalanche, investors lost money in African equities largely because some audited statements were revealed to be patently deceptive. Recent problems in Kenya’s banking sector have rekindled the necessity for regulators to push for tougher auditing reforms as well.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. But the spirit of Billy Durant would rise again in what would become Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. A study conducted by Innovate + Educate , which uses research-based strategies to address the U.S. ” .

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. This consideration explains why CEO pay has risen much more than worker pay.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. The German Mittelstand is at the forefront of a modern management model that builds flatter, more-innovative, and more-networked enterprises. This success is no blip.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. One European retail bank, for example, set up “opportunity labs” in its branches and agencies—i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. Consumer demand for innovative digital services, when executed ably, seems unquenchable; and that demand is stimulating capital flows. The government is rolling out what it calls its National Broadband Plan , a $4.5 This expansion isn't just domestic.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

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