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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Tata Motors appointed Tim Leverthon, who previously led R&D at BMW, as head of its global R&D.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. If 85% of global employees are unhappy, chances are that most job jumpers will merely land in another company’s cage. Develop personal, habitual agility. What can I do?”

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires new modes of operation. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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.

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The More Things Change, the More They Don't Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. It was in 1990 that George Stalk and Tom Hout of BCG published Competing Against Time , pointing out that time was an unexploited aspect of competitiveness.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges. Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company.