Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Over time, their products and services became better and better, and those innovative entrants moved up market, slowly increasing performance. If an organization could isolate a unit and focus it exclusively on the disruptive market, it had an opportunity to succeed. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

Organization 15

Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Miles Anthony Smith

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Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. These expectations create a Folkloric Construct of belief, because our brains are essentially lazy.

Team Building 104

Team Building Construction Learning-by-Doing Training 104

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Perhaps people and societies are a tiny bit more adaptive, resilient, intelligent, and creative than yesterdays institutions assume. Perhaps people and societies are a tiny bit more adaptive, resilient, intelligent, and creative than yesterdays institutions assume.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

But, occasionally, you can discover new information that “will help you construct a solution.” Case Study #1: Be creative and accommodating about knowledge transfer. Julie handled everything from scheduling travel to creating market reports for the eight-person company. But the news was a blow.

Case Study 8

Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

The code not only works, other coders — perhaps less talented — can safely and creatively build on it, with it and for it. Aligning speed-to-market, scalability, ease-of-use, robustness, resilience, maintainability and enhance-ability is what productivity really means. That's why they win.

Engineering 15

Engineering Taylorism Taylor Productivity 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. Similarly, Amazon doesn't succeed because its people apply broad marketing expertise. In their view, functional priorities are all too often in conflict with — or not fully supportive of — the strategic needs of the business.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

Innovation 9

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Whether constructing, deconstructing, or smashing brands, Martin’s understanding of branding goes far deeper than the tired noise you typically hear from brand agencies. I love creative thinkers and her presentation focused like a laser beam on creativity of thought and approach.

Blog 353

Blog Blue Ocean Strategy Collins Video 353