Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. Finally, industries in the upper-right quadrant — such as software, pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment — face high uncertainty in both demand and technology. To illustrate this, consider that patent applications in the U.S.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market. If I came at it from a product perspective, I would ask, how can I sell practice-management software, or how can I automate patient record-keeping?

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What they found is that America's patent system only provides positive incentives for innovation in two industries: pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The pharmaceutical and chemical industries have largely escaped this problem because patents there share an important attribute of real property: clear boundaries.

Innovation 12

Innovation Chemicals Incentives Pharmaceuticals 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Continuous light interface production , or CLIP, uses chemical reactions to better control the transformation of liquids into solids. This technology starts with a plastic or metal powder, but instead of solidifying the powder with a laser, it uses chemicals sprayed from 30,000 tiny nozzles at a rate of 350 million dots per second.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

I studied cross-functional teams in industries including communications, software, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, agricultural, chemical, manufacturers, retail, utility, consulting, internet software, government, insurance, and banking. You and Your Team. Leading Teams. Boost your group’s performance. Winnow constantly.

Team 8

Team Project Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Their marketing departments. Marketing promotions don't resonate and can't be tied to measurable results. In particular, getting customers to market and sell for you. These approaches are often beyond the reach of traditional marketing mindsets and practices — that's why I'm addressing the CEO. Here's how.

CEO 8

CEO Airlines Marketing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Bayer divested its chemicals and materials businesses and ended up a pharmaceutical and crop-science giant. It is well known how IBM sold off hardware businesses in the 1990s, at the same time that it refocused on software and services. Take these examples: GE is divesting its banking business to focus on industrial sectors.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Health Care Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

The chance to make more people more valuable worldwide is a market opportunity that could and should prove bigger than bots. This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. “Should you take five minutes to de-stress?”

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As Carlos Tavares, chair of PSA Peugeot Citroën, explained to me, “Unit sales will remain important, but this shouldn’t be our driver… To be ready, we must experiment and learn as markets change.” They start in other markets, with other customers, or with stealth incursions into the edges of your market.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. The chair of the new three-person committee, Richard L.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. True, emerging market countries are getting better at what they do, and even Europe is on the upswing.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Magazine Pharmaceuticals Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” Digital communication was set to upend markets and change everything. In the case of photography, the value of the hardware and software components associated with digital cameras went up as the cost of arithmetic dropped because demand increased – we wanted more of them.

Film 8

Film Cost Technology Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

If their projections turn out to be right, we should get ready for a bumpy road ahead, with market volatility and negative surprises. internet software & services, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Politics 8

Politics Telecommunications Policies Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances. Facial-recognition software can now identify groups' sizes and estimate members' ages, which could allow stores to provide the customers with targeted displays. That's about to change.

Retail 12

Retail Wireless Loyalty Chemicals 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

Three years ago, Microsoft’s chief research officer impressed attendees at a lecture in China with a demonstration of deep learning speech software that translated his spoken English into Chinese, then instantly delivered the translation using a simulation of his voice speaking Mandarin—with an error rate of just 7%.

Technology 8

Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8