Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The lifecycle of a so-called “data product” mirrors standard product development: identifying the opportunity to solve a core user need, building an initial version, and then evaluating its impact and iterating. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups. Coursera’s Skills Graph is one example.

Productivity 11

Productivity Products How To Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. The central Support Unit is typically a low budget, low staff corporate function in charge of developing guidelines and procedures to govern the innovation funnel (i.e.

Innovation 12

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% However, India remains a difficult market for multinational firms to enter. India is a large, fragmented, and heterogeneous market. over the next three years. Cultural variations are important.

Strategy 8

Strategy Operations Policies Environment 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

Expert Q&A with Jason Tyszko on how to raise the skills of your employees to meet upcoming automation challenges. . This has less to do with rapidly evolving jobs, and more with the discrepancy between the skills people have and those needed for their future employability. Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake,” he said.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

I advocate teaching the 60% what they can do to deliver value even in difficult circumstances (working with non-supportive leaders or in difficult markets, for example). Leadership: ensuring leaders at all levels who think, feel, and act in ways that deliver sustainable market value to employees, customers, investors, and communities.

Charan 12

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

I could cite similar examples of other companies successfully executing discrete change initiatives, like introducing a new performance management system, shifting from decentralized to centralized marketing support, and utilizing new personal productivity tools. The point is that all of these initiatives were reasonably well-defined.

Kotter 8

Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 11

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

We focused on the generations in eight countries, including the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), some of the most important markets for talent over the next decade, as well as one country from the Middle East. We also examined two European countries, the U.K. Highlights from this research.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? It developed the NOOK and has devoted significant space in its retail stores to display and promote it, and it has a broad online library.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The old cliché in marketing is true: Customers don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They’ve developed a system of military leadership called mission command , an alternative to rigid systems of leadership that specify in great detail what troops should do in battle. This was a hugely important marketing and sales goal.

Project 8

Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The companies recognized that many of the problems in the agriculture industry — such as low productivity, resource scarcity, and market volatility — posed threats to their businesses and were likely to intensify as demand for food increased along with the global population. Governments improved key policies and infrastructure.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Each branch makes its own loan decisions, sets its own pricing on loans and deposits, controls its own marketing budget, runs its own website (on a shared platform), and serves all customer segments — from individuals to multinationals — within its catchment area.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Successful strategy execution calls for skillful orchestration of sometimes opposing forces and competing needs. The successful but challenging experience of a large pharmaceutical company illustrates the tension between top-down and decentralized change efforts. Tension #3: Capability development versus pressure for results.

Execution 15

Execution Strategy Decentralization Short-term 15

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

Certainly, these folks have the skill to develop a major corporation, after all that is precisely how we came to know their names. The very talent and skill that brought them to the top of the heap can lead to a fall when the ground shifts and the heap collapses. Many-market organization. Single market. GE and HCL.

Succession 113

Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113