Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

Agility 8

Agility Technology Development Content 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed. Resistance from the Customer.

Supply Chain 55

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 55

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Haier’s organizational reinventions allow it to accelerate the time to market for its Tianzun advanced household heater/air conditioner/air purifier — a potentially disruptive advantage in what is a slow-moving industry. The first will be continued displacement by ever-more-competitive Chinese companies who compete on cost.

Business Model 8

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Many companies have managed to gain an edge tapping into its transformative power. After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. That’s the way to improve your time-to-market without compromising on product quality. There are a bunch of moving parts you need to tie in together.

Agility 38

Agility Planning Project Decentralization 38

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Companies across the globe are faced with new competitive threats, changing market dynamics, new technology disruption and evolving customer needs, and the pressure is on for companies to be able to sense and respond to those changes and deliver better products and services to customers, faster.

Agility 8

Agility Metrics Technology Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

NewTV, a new company focused on short-form video, just raised $1 billion dollars. That’s on top of the $750 million that its parent company, WndrCo, has raised for the venture. First movers didn’t understand customer problems or the product features that solved those problems (what we now call product-market fit).

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Entrepreneurs today who practice digital bricolage can construct amazing companies and organizations from existing pieces, many of which offer capabilities once available only to large businesses.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. paul garbett for hbr. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

Innovation 9

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. The best PMs I have worked with have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. Company Fit. Core Competencies. Not necessarily.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Leaders know company value statements often become nothing more than cosmetic window dressing. People want their company’s values to be sacrosanct. The painful result of widespread misuse of company values, according to one major study , is that only 23% of U.S. First, accountability for living them exists top to bottom.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

But Palmer Luckey, now 20, is taking his own sweet time to market — which he’s free to do since his funding comes strings-free from Kickstarter. Right now, he’s releasing it only as a developers’ kit. “It Fast Company). Called Oculus Rift, it caused a sensation at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Document Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. Take another real example: a postal service company delivering packages to customers. scope, cost, and time).

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Today, for example, many banks, insurance companies and law firms are exploring how they might exploit blockchain technologies. This is in contrast to the situation in most companies where all digital investments are typically appraised in the same way, using the same criteria. Development approaches. Selecting project managers.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? For some time now we’ve been living into a smarter world filled with Big Data and analytics, and a more connected one that’s been described as “ the internet of things.” And the market for software talent was hot hot hot.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

A lot of business literature advocates teaming up wherever possible to open the doors to new ideas, draw on the unique strengths of others, and speed time to market. Look for example at Lytro , a company whose impact on photography might turn out to be on par with the digital camera.

Contract Manufacturing 10

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? But high performance companies in industries worldwide are digitally monitoring and measuring their people more comprehensively and rigorously. Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Companies that are smart about global innovation create an explicit role for senior executives in their projects. Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. The project involved more than 20 sites around the world.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Imagine a team at a ski company that's faced with a big problem: When skiers make sharp turns at high speeds, the edges of their skis lift from the snow, causing the skiers to sometimes lose control. The ski company adapted the metal grid idea into its ski design. But for a long time they weren't easy to find. Problem solved.

Software 8

Software Innovation Sharpe Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Companies that are smart about global innovation create an explicit role for senior executives in their projects. Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. The project involved more than 20 sites around the world.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

When companies want to address fragmented cultures, they do some of the oddest things. Whether your company has reached $20 million or $20 billion, the routine mitosis of growth will eventually divide your organization into pieces. “Speed” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging.

Mission Statement 8

Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This shift is being brought about by three developments. Second, rising labor costs and stronger currency are reducing the appeal of high-volume Chinese manufacturing, and nudging more companies to move operations closer to their headquarters or their customers. Consider the very unexciting process of buying a washing machine.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

We were in a meeting to review the roadmap for the company's new product. I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. Maybe the company was (ahem) finally going to make products that were competitive. Some long seconds passed.

CEO 15

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. It is commonly believed that emerging market companies tap Western R&D talent in order to 'move up the value chain.'

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Digital leaders, those companies that have managed their digital transformations successfully, all show common characteristics in the way they have shaped their IT to work differently with the business. Company and unit leaders need to ensure that IT is in a leading position on all key digital projects. Research points to the latter.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

RIM is just the latest company to learn this lesson. At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development."

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

For example, the idea that market share leadership leads to cost leadership which creates defensible advantage is a dynamic argument. On the other hand, a company that prunes its product line of its lowest-profit items without considering the customers it might lose as a result is thinking in static terms.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The Lean movement began in manufacturing , then took the startup world by storm, and now the methodology has crept into companies of all kinds and sizes, both in practice and in jargon. Startups – like large companies – need to have a story around the narrative of use, and it often means ignoring minimal in favor of thoughtful.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Of course, software developers have long since figured out how to export data from one application to another. ” Companies in the vanguard of this approach are using integrated PLM tools to accomplish this. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The ability to do that rose to a new level in 1917, when General Motors was in financial difficulty and DuPont took a major position in the company. (GM A dynamic economy requires growing companies—those that increase their value-added contribution over time. Second, an innovation should have the widest possible market.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The LCD touchscreen in your iPhone is extraordinarily complex to manufacture, and only a handful of companies in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China have invested in the capabilities and manufacturing capacities to make them. Regions that have thick markets of suppliers have a big advantage.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8