Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous. The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. But despite all the pain they have experienced, these industries are wrong.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Instead, IBM opened the APIs to Watson (there are now about 35 of them, with more being created all the time) and allowed third parties to use them for cognitive service applications.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Performing market assessments. Core Competencies. Running design sprints. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

I don''t care what industry you''re talking about.". 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. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

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. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

For example, the idea that market share leadership leads to cost leadership which creates defensible advantage is a dynamic argument. 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.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

It can be argued that in many industries substantial numbers of digital applications — for example, online channel to customers and ERP systems — have become so pervasive that they have become mandatory for survival in the industry. Development approaches. Selecting project managers.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? But high performance companies in industries worldwide are digitally monitoring and measuring their people more comprehensively and rigorously. Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

A lot of business literature advocates teaming up wherever possible to open the doors to new ideas, draw on the unique strengths of others, and speed time to market. The firm has developed a sensing system that captures light hitting the camera from a variety of angles, not just what strikes a plane set behind a small aperture.

Contract Manufacturing 11

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Try HR Retrospectives.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Eventually, they found a great solution in an unlikely place: the music industry. Analogous solutions are extremely beneficial to businesses because they reduce time to market, and they can get stalled projects moving again. But for a long time they weren't easy to find. Problem solved.

Software 8

Software Innovation Sharpe Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

“Urgency” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging and pressure from the Board is mounting. An organization would be far better off not having any stated values than to develop them only to misuse them. ” The destruction from such values misuse can’t be overstated.

Bottom-up 10

Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Top startups already have market leading solutions. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. In 2008, RIM tried to match the new competitor.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0 Of course, software developers have long since figured out how to export data from one application to another. Industrial automation is an evolutionary process. The Integration of Legacy Systems.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

One McKinsey study of 2,135 executives revealed that most corporate strategies “developed idiosyncratically to their organizations, people, and markets,” and don’t pass more than three out of 10 core tests for viable strategy. “Integrity” becomes a value when there’s been a scandal.

Mission Statement 8

Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This shift is being brought about by three developments. In contrast to the labor-intensive cut-and-stitch process that has defined the athletic footwear industry for decades, Nike figured out how to knit a shoe from the sole upward in one piece, using a single, highly configurable machine. Design Manufacturing Product development'

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. Just as electronic commerce would later sweep business, mass production came to one industry after another. Social media spending?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

automobile industry over the last five years. While production is approaching all-time highs, the percentage of parts that come from U.S. You have to understand these fundamentals to craft trade-policy prescriptions — which, by the way, I think the free trade agreements largely do: A thick supplier market.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8