Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

It involves too many people When a strategic plan needs to finely calibrate the moves of loosely controlled business units and achieve consensus, then it often makes sense to include a wide range of stakeholders in the discussions. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

This is achieved through a clever combination of economic incentives and cryptography, and ensures that at any point in time, digital records reflect the true “consensus” among the key stakeholders involved. However, when assessing blockchain business models, it is useful to understand what blockchain can’t do.

Advertising 8

Advertising Technology Consensus Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. But the sprint format isn’t just for development and design anymore. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

Agility 8

Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. That''s not right. Sure, he was better at baseball than 99% of the population, but he simply wasn''t world class.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. It is exactly this brand of thinking that is dead wrong when it comes to new product development and competitive strategy.

Disruptive Innovation 15

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Price Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The slow decline of industrial manufacturing in developed nations and recent failures of financial capitalism across the globe have sent us searching for a new model of economic growth. Where a business falls along the spectrum of long-term societal impact depends on what it is doing to solve one of the world's biggest problems. (A

Technology 17

Technology Entrepreneur Morale ROI 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2014

First, some background: On September 17 th , NASA announced the winners of the $6.8bn “space taxi” contract which will fund the development and launch of new platforms to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Interdependency refers to product architectures where the parts cannot be developed independently.

Industry 8

Industry Disruptive Innovation Innovation Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Mission-driven employees naturally expect competitive compensation, but more important is the opportunity to shape the path of innovation, to play a meaningful role in growing the business, and to develop their own leadership chops.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

That was the general consensus after one of my favorite HBS classes: an entrepreneurship case on a company called Tickle. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

A consensus is building that continued growth of the macro-economy risks pushing us into unstoppable climate change and the peaking of many of the finite resources our way of life depend on. As well as numerous speeches on the subject of wellbeing, Cameron recently called on business "to work on improving quality of life and wellbeing."

Company 14

Company Kahneman Long-term Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

There is a general consensus that U.S. In poor countries, the innovation paradigm is just the opposite: spend less and innovate new business models. In poor countries, the innovation paradigm is just the opposite: spend less and innovate new business models. He set out to develop a solution. In the U.S.,

Health Care 15

Health Care Cost Constraint Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Its earnings were down 73% from the quarter a year earlier and it missed the analysts' consensus estimate of $0.24 Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. Amazon, it appears, is willing to wait as long as it takes to develop a portfolio of disruptive-growth businesses.

Christensen 12

Christensen Retail Long-term Incubator 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Fast forward to today's generation of business leaders and you hear a very different attitude being expressed: that it is essential for senior executives both to have a nuanced understanding of the major societal forces shaping our world, and to know where and how to respond for the good of their organization and for society as a whole.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a neat metaphor, “Risky Business” calculates that there’s a 1 in 20 chance — equal to the chances of “an American developing colon cancer” — that more than $730 billion of coastal assets will be at high risk in the coming years. So finally, real bipartisan pressure and consensus are building.

Crisis 8

Crisis Report Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes. There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.

Health Care 9

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A thorough, respectful process for building scientific and stakeholder consensus around measures has been orchestrated by leaders like the National Quality Forum (NQF) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Report System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Blockchain is a cryptographically secure, shared data layer that enterprises can use to digitally track the ownership of assets across trust boundaries, opening up new opportunities for cross-organizational collaboration and imaginative new business models. Third, the spreadsheet is shared among multiple parties.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Usually when people talk of DNA they're raising questions of corporate culture: Does the company rely on consensus among managers or are strategies and tactics directed from the top? In a company setting, that would be the economics of its business model. With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system.

Software 13

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. and Intercontinental Exchange , the American holding company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, which dominate the IPO and listing business, have been among the largest investors in blockchain ventures.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8