Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Faster times to market, greater flexibility on the way there, and greater focus on the customer — common results of a successful lean implementation — are all positives. Jud Linville, CEO of Citi Global Cards, says, “Installing growth boards led to a dramatic change in how we resource and support growth at Citi Cards.

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Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

And because it focuses on acute episodes, REBP acts as a necessary complement to payment and care-delivery models designed to improve prevention and chronic-care management. Finally, REBP gives payers a way to prepare for the future, when episode-based performance management is likely to be a required capability.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

They ignore the realities of how global manufacturing now works — how it has evolved into a complex network of interlinked factories that together build many of the products sold today. and Europe, globalization means more imports from China and other low-cost countries. To many consumers in advanced economies like the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8