Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. They are paying up for strong business models with scale and access to valuable new markets, users, and distribution capabilities.

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Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

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Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies. The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But even a business model innovator like Zipcar must eventually respond to a changing world. A stark reality recently crept up on Zipcar: It had designed its entire customer experience as a desktop-and-laptop experience, so it didn’t have a way to sign up, service, and help members manage their memberships from their phones.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. The Silicon Valley Model.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta , Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit. While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. By reframing it as being analogous to launching a business, I talked myself down. How's your book launch coming?" Bob asked me. Dr. Ellen F.

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Innovation Incubator Business Model Wilde 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. Their scope and pace often run counter to the rhythms of company goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Its members had a carefully constructed PowerPoint document, replete with facts and figures that showed the attractiveness of what we''ll call the booming management-training market in China (details have been disguised to protect the client''s confidentiality). The project team had certainly prepared for the workshop.

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Innovation Incubator Construction Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

They develop the few ideas that have the potential to solve problems for customers and be commercially viable (selection and design). They quickly develop prototypes and models that can be tested both in the laboratories and with customers (rapid experimentation). Innovation Organizational culture'

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Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

In terms of management, the advent of the entrepreneurial society means above all replacing the rigidities of industrial-age mind-sets, with their command-and-control, top-down orientation. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. Record so far: Little more than a year after announcing an investment of $1 billion to launch the Watson Group, IBM established the Watson Health business unit in September 2015. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g.,

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A).

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

What seems certain is that if you’re managing an incumbent company, you cannot predict, much less invent, the future on your own. Your employees are held back by a predigital worldview, and for the most part they lack the skills to develop cutting-edge digital offerings.

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Advertising Banking Learning Curve Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. With this approach, cross-functional teams quickly develop prototypes to bounce off of customers.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. We’ve all had to adapt. of course). and Harajuku Lovers.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. If Ford applied those same ROI expectations to its new logistics business, it would likely kill it before it has a chance to thrive.

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Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. Managers act more as enablers and connectors, providing regular feedback and tracking progress. In many cases elements of the acquired business’ culture can become a model for the acquiring company.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking "lean startups" from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Scaling Lesson 1: Focus On Finding A Great Business Model. Magical, really. and EBITDA margins are 47%.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

For RIM, is it the small base of application developers, or the lack of a handful of key applications? Is it Apple's consumer appeal, or the declining influence of corporate IT managers? It's important to create strategic options through mechanisms such as partnering or incubating new business models.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

” I heard top management ask that question many times during the two years I spent working on new products at The New York Times. “We had the brand and the audience, and were then able to build an online dating business that was far more powerful as a business model than our core content execution.”

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Consensus Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Video 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Trouble is, it’s hard to think of any business challenge where real pro­gress has been harder to come by. In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And it’s not just your company. What’s the problem?

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. A portfolio approach can take many forms.

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