Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

But Weber also warned that, unfettered, bureaucracy could create a soulless “iron cage,” trapping people inside dehumanizing systems and limiting their potential. I have formally researched management tools and techniques for 25 years. Develop personal, habitual agility. Develop team agility. He was right.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. But just then, the CEO interrupted and asked the product managers in the back row of seats, "What are the weaknesses with this roadmap?". Some long seconds passed.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Haier’s organizational reinventions allow it to accelerate the time to market for its Tianzun advanced household heater/air conditioner/air purifier — a potentially disruptive advantage in what is a slow-moving industry. Again, this is true disruption (although not particularly successful outside of China so far).

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 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. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

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. They have changed their IT functions utilizing three related management interventions which, taken together, represent a fundamental re-invention of IT.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Drawing on a conference he organized on how the US legal system could be changed to better promote entrepreneurship, Litan points out that the scholarship of law and economics "has been largely about what economists call 'static efficiency' rather than 'dynamic efficiency' or growth."

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

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. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system. A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

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. It is commonly believed that emerging market companies tap Western R&D talent in order to 'move up the value chain.'

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. But to get beyond the hype, managers need to understand some underlying challenges and paradigm shifts. From Time-Triggered to Event-Triggered Control Systems.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

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. New ways of thinking about opportunities must be developed by the board as a team. They need what we call a growth board. Ask the right questions.

Innovation 12

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

There is widespread agreement that if the United States is to achieve sustainable levels of health care spending, it must make greater use of payment mechanisms that reward physicians, hospitals, and health systems for the results achieved. health system. They will also have to develop or adopt new standards as they emerge.

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

Almost every sophisticated manufacturer uses some kind of lean production system that pulls raw materials in from a warehouse. Such global sequential production systems are dependent on the free movement of goods with minimal tariff and non-tariff barriers. Regions that have thick markets of suppliers have a big advantage.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8