Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. To ensure a truly transformative culture change effort, the team outlined a new corporate-wide organizational strategy to sit alongside its other market-focused strategies: “Foster a culture of insight and innovation.”

Insurance 11

Insurance Innovation Core Competence Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves. Or, they may create markets where no market exists and turn non-consumers into consumers. This may happen in two ways.

Disruptive Innovation 11

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". It is the world's first broad look for statistics underlying Innovation Management practices. So why does this Systemic Authenticity thing work?

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Early results are encouraging.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a recent interview, Benko discussed AT&T’s efforts and offered advice for HR leaders and individual managers on how today’s workforce can avoid obsolescence. HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Rather, it points to a system set up to fail — by the pernicious combination of a fixed strategy and executives who appeared unwilling to hear bad news. Insight center.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

It helped to establish the Symbian operating system in 1998 and spent a fortune trying to attract developers to the platform. In sharp contrast to Nokia's approach, Apple offered developers a uniform development environment and a direct path to market. Are You Targeting a Phantom Market? Apple learned from Nokia's mistake.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. A recent Accenture report concurs, claiming that every business is now a digital business: Every industry is now software driven; as such, every company must adopt IT as one of its core competencies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The global interoperability of big datasets guarantees that successfully managing a portfolio of investment hypotheses has become an essential precursor to successfully managing an investment portfolio. Yes, high-frequency “algorithmic” trading of Flash Boys fame is impressive, but its investment victories are executional.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Hedge Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

New Coke lasted 79 days before the original formula returned to the market. At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh has set his cultural sights on a holacracy management system a radical change from conventional structures. By nature, marketing people are dynamic and impatient. Is Zappos there yet? This was a $5 billion mistake.

Brand 100

Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". Consider these examples: 1.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Writing decent code may prove a less marketable skill than excellence at tutoring a child or, quite literally, teaching an old dog new tricks. Watson's success was hailed as both precursor and avatar of a rapidly emerging genre of intelligent systems. Specifying rules and knowledge domains for "expert systems" was state-of-the art.

Core Competence 12

Core Competence Human Capital Technology Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Can we execute it–does it align with our core competencies? Many organizations embark on large-scale change management efforts to “make” their organizations more innovative; most fail. Research: Middle Managers Have an Outsized Impact on Innovation. Dare to seize the opportunities that meet these criteria.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Core Competence Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

Automation anxiety is made more acute by a labor market that has tilted against workers over the last 30 years, with increasing income inequality and stagnant real wages. The education system must also do more to produce STEM workers and to ensure that workforce is diverse. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Policies 8

Policies Aggregate Demand Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Individuals compete for promotion. Managers assess performance. Tasks are assigned.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Individuals compete for promotion. Managers assess performance. Tasks are assigned.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Build off its core competence, or play from weakness? And it wasn’t alone – another audio leader, Sony, similarly lost market share in electronics because of its analog bias. Rivals were developing digital technology to replace the existing analog standard. Internal debate raged. Or would only one survive?

Organization 8

Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Today, guests interact with this platform by wearing an RFID-enabled MagicBand, which serves as a ticket for entry, a store of FastPass ride and dining reservations, a hotel room key, a payment system and more. They can integrate rather than overhaul previously disparate systems. Software platforms have incredibly attractive economics.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Several portal companies compete with carriers as they have acquired "voice-over-internet" capabilities. Skype , for example, competes with fixed-line carriers by offering free mobile Skype calls. Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. Bharti looks nothing like other telecoms. In the U.S.,

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

How tools are changing the way we manage, learn, and get things done. Here’s what managers need to be thinking about: Collaborative culture, behaviors, and norms. How does collaboration become as much a value and a behavioral norm as a core competence and pragmatic means to creative ends? That’s the key.

Technology 8

Technology Creativity Learning-by-Doing Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? In particular, Christensen’s research offers a powerful lens for understanding why incumbents so often lose to upstarts attacking from the low end of the market.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Christensen Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

The dashboard aggregates an ever-growing variety of public datasets to allow for more intelligent urban management. Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. Over time, we could design responsive cities that react to this data.

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Our value systems and individual beliefs are learned. It provides the organization a way to stay focused on your core competencies and prevents you from being distracted by opportunities that do not fit your purpose. They aren’t permanent, and yet they don’t change all that much over the course of our lives.

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers. Financiers.

Shaw 13

Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ ’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Core Business.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Every Quirky “member” could submit ideas; the community then commented on them, sometimes combined them, and ultimately rated them on a point system. The ideas that floated to the top then entered a second step: an evaluation at which a combination of Quirky’s management and community made the final selection decision.

Case Study 8

Case Study Innovation Core Competence Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

AlphaGo was programmed to seek positive rewards in the form of scores and continually improve its system by playing millions of games against tweaked versions of itself. Systems made by SAP and Oracle are bulky, expensive, difficult to use, and hard to integrate. The cost of implementation will continue to fall.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Core Competence System 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2016

Clinton: To date, Mrs. Clinton has made her marketing bottom line “I’m the woman candidate,” but that has not played well with Sanders supporters and younger voters in general. What are your core competencies? Anchor Statement. What is the go-to description of who you are and what you do? Signature Services. About the Author.

Brand 50

Brand Learning-by-Doing Politics Core Competence 50