Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

On my last trip to India, I witnessed an innovation experiment, National Agro Foundation (NAF) , that addresses this wicked problem. Addressing the agriculture value chain—soil testing, facilitation of inputs and credit, market linkage, and field advisory services—is part and parcel of agriculture development initiatives.

Innovation 9

Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality. Access to global markets.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. These three are then best assisted by feedback from other professionals.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. But the most common cause of death they reported?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Craftsmen allied themselves to essentially create firewalls around their primary competitive offering in the market. Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise.

Operations 14

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. That was the challenge.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

To help understand a woman’s preferences and challenges, Merck for Mothers has begun to incorporate focus groups and community advisory committees in our work. Voices we heard in this “market research” told us that pregnant women may walk for miles through dangerous floodlands and game reserves to get to a place where they can deliver.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Early in its growth, an organization will customarily have a competent financial audit committee, even though financial controls are rather mundane. Research by i4cp suggests that in higher-performing organizations, leaders more often see diversity and inclusion strategically, as supporting organizational culture and innovation.

Compliance 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12