Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

At one large European energy company we consulted with, no less than four separate corporate functions were supposed to be working on innovation—yet none of them was supporting critical needs at the business unit level. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

Innovation 9

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Insecure employees are “hard to evaluate, hard to coach, and hard to develop,” says Ethan Burris, an associate professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. Developing rapport with anxious employees requires patience and effort. What the Experts Say. Be honest with your employee.

Management 11

Management How To McCombs Project 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

Mr. Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically integrate every aspect of the oil business (exploration, development, logistics, marketing) to assure an ongoing competitive advantage. Our own consulting industry is the poster child for this phenomenon.) First off, overall deal success rates have continued to improve.

Incubator 8

Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

They develop the few ideas that have the potential to solve problems for customers and be commercially viable (selection and design). They quickly develop prototypes and models that can be tested both in the laboratories and with customers (rapid experimentation).

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. When it comes to the work histories of the other top management team members at the organizations on our list, TFA again stands out. Indeed, the TFA application process is highly selective and consists of multiple steps.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. Today, it is not uncommon to hear an executive talk about managing a $30 billion brand. So what is management to do?

Strategy 9

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. Finally, assess the level of time you're willing to put into developing this person.

Mentor 15

Mentor Christensen Incubator Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Seed investors are mostly operating as growth investors, expecting that the entrepreneur will somehow manage to bridge the gap and bring a concept to realization. Much of what the company learned about its customers in the services mode has been developed into its product, although a good percentage of revenues still comes from services.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Particularly at startups or small, private, family-owned companies, employees who don’t get along with their managers are “as good as dead,” Fernández-Aráoz says. Lees suggests trying to have a good and lengthy conversation with your prospective manager “about their vision for the organization.”

How To 8

How To Incubator Due Diligence Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Traditionally, companies have found ways to navigate these challenges internally, in research and development (R&D) divisions like the famed Xerox PARC , founded in 1970, or through programs that encourage employees to dedicate a small percentage of their time to side projects, as 3M began doing in 1948. A Different Approach.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. Develop a portfolio of capabilities with different risk/return profiles. Record so far: IBM has developed Watson’s base IP largely in its own R&D labs.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Social entrepreneurs can serve as the "R&D function" for learning how to serve underdeveloped markets, according to Jim Koch, director of the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University , which has supported more than 160 social enterprises over the last decade.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. Then, both approaches move toward developing a theory about how to solve the problem or design challenge.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. Not" is not a typo. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8