Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Collaborative activity is the "secret sauce" that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. One solution is to use a flexible, fluid team structure that consists of three tiers : a core, an operational level, and an outer network. Many skills are difficult to train and develop.

Team 11

Team Succession Hypercompetition Teamwork 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The Future of Operations. Sometimes they are a fit, but often they are not.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Markets would fail at allocating capital — and misallocate and malinvest it in low-worth stuff instead. UK Uncut is self-organizing demonstrations against mobile operators and banks.

Incentives 16

Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. Adapted from. Eddie Yoon.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8