Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

But while digital marketers are aware of the strict new regulatory regime, seemingly few have taken active steps to address how it will impact their day-to-day operations. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google. The science of storytelling and brand performance. Almost certifiably not.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Constraint Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

Leadership 9

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives. Pair a technology whiz with any employee who needs support with the tools; a personal relationship makes the uptake much likelier than expecting someone to learn on their own or to rely on the IT hotline.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Freedom to explore long-term ideas and emerging technologies is important. ” But as that transition plays out, few companies are paying sufficient attention to creating accountability and incentives for success. Operators in the business units love hitting goals and finding new efficiencies.

Project 9

Project Innovation Press Release Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Information technology, however, is one of those industries. Today’s cloud IT vendors have both the buying power and the operational discipline to minimize the cost to the customer of a unit of data storage or computing power. Beyond the purely functional limitations of the technology, regulatory issues will persist for decades.

Industry 8

Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Buoyed by low-margin structures and new technological architectures that could support lower costs, the competitors that entered your industry were able to take more and more market share — eventually convincing even your best customers to embrace their products and services. It wasn’t easy to do, but it was a good strategy.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Construction began in 1884 and by some accounts continued around the clock until her death in 1922. ” — the questions we would ask about other kinds of constructions. What will the advent of big data mean for management research, given the incentives in our publication process I’ve described above?

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

I often find myself immersed in the perfect pacing of a well-constructed mystery, the flawless delivery of that once-in-a-lifetime monologue, the scale and grandeur of the next big blockbuster — I get so caught up in all of it, sometimes I forget that I generally go there to tell companies their businesses are in trouble.

Rogers 15

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, while we were one of the early companies to develop an ‘order online, pick up in store’ service capability, it took us years to launch because of the fear we’d slow down store operations. I understood the concern of our store operators, but customers were asking for the service.”

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This was a break from the previous decade, when technical improvements and competing technologies meant constant upgrades , advancing from dial-up through early cable-based broadband, DSL service offered over the analog phone network, early fiber-based deployments (notably Verizon FiOS) and cable’s last major upgrade, known as DOCSIS 3.0.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

Likewise, the airlines have demonstrated that well-constructed alliances can be a powerful way to build market position and capitalize on scale. Best-in-class players, such as Intel (through technology partnerships) and Tyson (through new-product incubators), have developed the tools to incorporate many different flavors of deal making.

Incubator 8

Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

But owing to the space station's construction deadline and the ever-present threat of cuts to the CAA's budget, the agency was aiming to do a decade's worth of work in six years. Ever since the solar array got that hole from those flying needles, the space station has been operating on less power. It's a great piece of technology.

Case Study 14

Case Study Incentives Report Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

To come to these, and other, conclusions, we constructed a massive dataset of television advertising in 2010 ( the year tablet sales skyrocketed ). Brands such as Amazon and eHarmony, a dating website, have a stronger incentive to use particular types of ad content. Advertising Sales Technology' billion in U.S.

Advertising 8

Advertising Brand Apparel Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

For example, Walmart doesn't succeed just because of a strong operations group. They therefore have little incentive to overcome these hurdles. We've recently seen a more robust cross-functional construct emerge, one with an overarching organizational structure, based on building and maintaining a distinctive capability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

From building cross-functional customer segment units to creating additional teams that cut across merchandizing, store operations, and segment owners, senior leadership at Best Buy saw to it that the entire organization embraced an outside-in approach. Q: How long does this process generally take? And what are the benchmarks of success?

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. R&D Tax Incentives , with their data suggesting that reducing the cost of R&D by 10% results in an increase in innovation by 10%.

Resources 87

Resources Innovation GDP Education 87

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Now the rise of digital technologies has added a third construct: data equity. Before the rise of digital technologies, customer data was worthless to consumers. As customer-targeting technologies initially evolved through online ads and matching search algorithms, companies began to realize the full value of this information.

Content 8

Content Niche Marketing Discount Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The green supply chain gets some teeth: Walmart changes incentives for buyers. It was by no means a hiccup-free year on sustainability issues for Walmart, with deep concerns about corruption in its Mexican operations. But the subtle change in buyer incentives is a big deal. This is the focus of my next project.). on to 2013.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

It could well be that a charismatic candidate who appealed to minorities, made better use of campaign technology, and embraced some modest policy changes (mainly on immigration and gay marriage) could sweep Republicans back into the White House.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products P&L 8