Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Sometimes exploration means creating inventions; sometimes it means acquiring small, inventive companies.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A Harvard Business Review Analytic Services report, sponsored by Siemens in conjunction with a national series of seminars focused on energy innovation, found that approximately 90 percent of executives feel significant pressure to reduce their energy spend, and more than 80 percent said fluctuating energy prices are a challenge.

Energy 8

Energy Cost Content Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. Agile innovation teams are small.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The most painfully awkward debates I hear in ostensibly innovative organizations revolve around "crazy ideas." Defining those crazy zones is one of the most difficult but more important cultural decisions innovation leadership teams can make. Crazy ideas, of course, can be a source of sustainable competitive advantage.

Outsourcing 14

Outsourcing Management Core Competence Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

When the CEO assigns ownership of analytics, that executive will command bigger budgets and more time on the board agenda and will oversee a powerful new pool of resources. This is about more than technology. ” Create an environment of rapid innovation. The CEO has to work on four things: Actively manage C-suite dynamics.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., There are all kinds of new energy providers (especially in U.S.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better. While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Good reporting takes time and relationships, so it can’t be effectively automated — though it can be empowered by digital technology. ” The truth is that content optimization techniques are fairly standardized these days, which makes them unlikely ever to lead to a competitive advantage. Insight Center.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Audience Content Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

In my experience, the organizations that succeed at organization design tend to do five things: Organize around competitive advantage. If your competitive advantage is responsiveness or speed, the organization must be built for that. Organizations must answer critical questions of identity: What sets us apart?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Driving competitive advantage through stakeholder engagement. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them. SD : Why now?

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Known for walking out of long meetings to make sales calls, he shortened IBM's two-month annual budget process to six days.

Globalization 16

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 16

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc.

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

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? Allocate budget for a team. ” Coty’s “Big Opportunity” focused on developing its supply chain into a competitive advantage that could better drive innovation and business growth.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

in their deployed software portfolios, which is a 3 percentage point increase from the current budget year. Nearly a third of respondents now cite benefits of flexibility, increased innovation, shorter development times, and faster procurement processes. Why this increased adoption of open source software?

Software 15

Software Tips Survey Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Organizations don't simply wake up to the notion that they will succeed with analytics; they need leaders to show them why and how to seize this new source of competitive advantage. Later, when other teams adopted their analytical innovations, they had more money to act on what they discovered. That's not required.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 13

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore.

Planning 58

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The irony is that its principal corporate contributor (Eastman Kodak) fell by the wayside, a victim of changing technologies. The same fate had fallen the electronics industry, whose innovator (the Thomas Edison Electric Company) fell behind others in leading the trends and usage. Photographs convey thoughts, ideas and experiences.

Strategy 92

Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 92

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

To meet these challenges, we believe academic medicine must embrace disruptive innovation in its core missions: educating the next generation of health professionals, offering comprehensive cutting-edge patient care, and leading biomedical and clinical research. Disruptive technologies threaten every mission of the academic health center.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Over the past few years, most businesses have come to recognize that the ability to collect and analyze the data they generate has become a key source of competitive advantage. The confidence that the technology executive team placed in us was crucial to our success. PM Images/Getty Images. The team had to be motivated.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

First, we’ve seen dramatic improvements in flexible automated fabrication, exemplified by innovations like Tesla Motors’ robot-heavy car factories and Nike’s revolutionary Flyknit process. Like most major appliances, you do this out of necessity not desire, picking the best from a range of pretty-good options that fit your budget.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec’s strategy is reminiscent of Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen’s model of disruptive innovation : It did not enter the industry taking its competitors head-on, by offering superior products or services. Gerrie Fourie, its current CEO, called it “innovating around frustrations.”

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. One of the biggest myths surrounding content marketing is that you need to be a big business with a big budget to do it. And plan in social media ad budgets from the beginning!

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Those who work for the competition aren’t. Antitrust and competition policy are seeing renewed interest , including recent hearings on the subject by the Federal Trade Commission. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8