Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity. Resistance from the Customer.

Supply Chain 51

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here is how to use smart planning to make strides toward greater agility and market success. After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. The heavy focus is on the processes of continuous delivery and frequent testing. Choose Your Scaling Path. Adhere to the Core Principles of Agile.

Agility 33

Agility Planning Project Decentralization 33

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

Agility 9

Agility Technology Development Content 9

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. The mantra of “ first-mover advantage ,” the idea that winners are the ones who are the first entrants in their markets, became the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

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. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Displacement generally is easier to combat than disruption.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. For instance, Amazon has created a cloud services business that enables established firms and startups alike to rent IT infrastructures and processes from Amazon.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

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.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Decision making in today’s organizations often no longer has the necessary responsiveness, detaching them from both their customer base and market realities.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Performing market assessments. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 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. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. Develop personal, habitual agility. Develop team agility. We identify and remove constraints to the innovation process.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

For example, the idea that market share leadership leads to cost leadership which creates defensible advantage is a dynamic argument. Out of their work came a new business focus on "time to market" and "cycle time." Similarly, the question isn't how fast your cycle time is, but how rapidly you're improving it.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

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 10

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Top startups already have market leading solutions. To find out, Gimmy and Meyer designed the new organizational unit with a set of processes and a startup program based on the venture client model. Even so, less than 5% of all potential startups will make it past a screening process. Creating the Venture Client Model.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Cloud-based services are also now being bought directly by functions like HR and marketing, resulting in IT losing its control over technology purchase within the organization. Digital capabilities are about methods, processes and people — and a truly digital IT organization is different from traditional IT.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

For key operational investments, the focus is about improving the performance of existing activities, which often entails looking for opportunities for integration and rationalization to speed up business processes and remove inefficiencies. Development approaches. So maintaining quality is the key criteria and cannot be compromised.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 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. “Transparency” becomes a value when there’s been a cover up.

Bottom-up 10

Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

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. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Companies across the globe are faced with new competitive threats, changing market dynamics, new technology disruption and evolving customer needs, and the pressure is on for companies to be able to sense and respond to those changes and deliver better products and services to customers, faster.

Agility 8

Agility Metrics Technology Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Once a design was finalized, manufacturing used the engineering bill of materials and manually added relevant manufacturing (manufacturing bill of materials) and process data (process bill of materials). Industrial automation is an evolutionary process.

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. “The rigorous methodology serves as a framework we use to solve customer frictions and serve unmet needs to focus on real, in-market learnings.”

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Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 12

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. First, we’ve seen dramatic improvements in flexible automated fabrication, exemplified by innovations like Tesla Motors’ robot-heavy car factories and Nike’s revolutionary Flyknit process. Consider the very unexciting process of buying a washing machine.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. This could be achieved only by taking shortcuts in the production validation and evaluation processes. Those processes are then adopted across all sites. The project involved more than 20 sites around the world.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. This could be achieved only by taking shortcuts in the production validation and evaluation processes. Those processes are then adopted across all sites. The project involved more than 20 sites around the world.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Furthermore, administering and/or participating in an REBP model can help both payers and providers develop many of the capabilities they will need for total-cost-of-care management. To implement REBP at scale, most payers will have to shift their focus from prospective to retrospective models in most markets. How Does REPB Work?

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The raw wafer for an iPhone chip might have been processed in Texas before it was shipped to a factory in Taiwan to be diced into individual chips and tested, then wire bonded into a package before going to a parts distribution center, before finally making it to that assembly line in Zhengzhou, China. Nearness to market.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8