The Horizons Tracker
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Much like the process of human development, a business venture requires a significant amount of time to progress from its conceptual stage to official incorporation. Spending time on rearranging previously developed plans to adapt to unexpected events. Waiting for specific events to occur, such as investor commitments.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 29, 2016
How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Resistance from the Customer. The customers are in the drivers seat, no doubt about it. You just finished reading Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship !
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2016
On the other hand, a highly differentiated offering is no longer a guarantee of long-term value creation. Diminishing cycle times, rapidly changing intellectual property and fast R&D allow competition to catch up quickly on any breakthrough, so even the most valuable innovations can see their price premium drop rapidly.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 8, 2016
Xiaomi’s phones are not technologically disruptive in hardware terms, but they are revolutionary in customer experience terms; customers come to expect and appreciate their weekly OS updates. Again, this is true disruption (although not particularly successful outside of China so far).
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. Many business people, especially if they have been trained in microeconomics, think in terms of "comparative statics" rather than dynamics. The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 5, 2012
These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains. Rather, they are boldly restructuring every function in their organizations to boost their firms' long-term ability to deliver affordable and sustainable solutions to increasingly cost-conscious and eco-aware consumers.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2016
For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made. Development approaches. When this happens, it is important that they become fully integrated into the core operating environment and are possibly re-engineered for long-term use.
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