Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. How did Sal Khan finance his venture?

Bond 9

Bond Education Finance Video 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

A more industrialized approach is needed, one that will reduce cost and simplify the decision-making process for buyers. Fast (a project lasting less than a year), Capital-light (or better yet, funded by low-cost capital provided by a third party). Innovation in Cities. These criteria are not impossible to meet. Insight Center.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. Cable companies enviously and despairingly benchmark Netflix and Amazon to learn how they quasi-autonomously cultivate subscribers and binge viewers.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. They may choose it for other reasons, for example, to encourage cooperation or innovation. Maybe it’s not a conscious choice at all.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc. Financial performance.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

I see far too many data that don’t go anywhere and that’s just a cost.”. Point solutions, such as focusing on the call center, the store, or the website, no longer cut it in a multichannel environment, not when delivering excellent customer journeys can increase revenues up to 15 percent and cut costs by up to 20 percent.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Only a company that produces a TBL is taking account of the full cost involved in doing business.” Worse, we have conspicuously failed to benchmark progress across these options, on the basis of their real-world impact and performance. Fundamentally, we have a hard-wired cultural problem in business, finance and markets.

TBL 9

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy. The Design Frame. The Moral Frame.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8