Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. This process has been incubated successfully at SAP, where teams have compressed the product development process into three months for some new releases.

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. In businesses with billion-dollar bottom lines, it’s nearly impossible to create significant ripples in a year or two.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Finally, even large projects can be broken up into what a banking client of mine calls "human bites."

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. xefstock2/Getty Images. The Post-It note. Facebook’s “like” button. The Sony PlayStation. The same is true of innovation today.

Incubator 8

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

There are two contemporary strategic imperatives, among others, that many executives are grappling with: (1) competing in emerging markets and (2) partnering with startups to gain exposure to novel ideas and opportunities. Such considerations seem less pertinent in a market like India where nationally mandated focus areas are less engrained.

Incubator 9

Incubator Company Policies B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The invention of modern transistors, the adoption of standardized shipping containers, and the advent of low-cost assembly lines in East Asia lowered costs and created larger markets for televisions and radios, setting the stage for an Asian manufacturing powerhouse. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

David Kelley founded the company with a simple goal: to create a workplace made up of his best friends. That’s why we also ask our locations to tailor IDEO’s purpose to their particular markets or studios. Bottom-up innovation. How do I have positive and disproportionate impact? Where do I begin?

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Incubator Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I remember last year settling into the booth of a café deep in the rainforest in Costa Rica and looking up to see a placard on the table begging for a positive TripAdvisor review. Kaufer began to despair that his fledging start-up would go under. billion market capitalization as of this writing. and EBITDA margins are 47%.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. A 2015 survey by Wayra , a startup incubator, last year found that over a fifth of startup talent in the UK came from other EU countries.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8