Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Agile espouses short cycles, regular reflection, and course correction based on evidence collected during the software production process.

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. 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

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“If you went to bed last night as an industrial company,” Immelt observed, “you are going to wake up this morning as a software and data analytics company.” Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 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 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. An example might be the decision to deploy a software package or cloud-based software solution to replace a bespoke application.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

However, the new handset, its software, and the available applications all failed to excite critics and customers. Disruptive innovations begin at the low-margin, high commodity end of the stack and move upward over time, and IT is most likely not going to be an exception. billion in revenues.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 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

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. Time boxes, retrospectives, scrum masters, and all the other gobbledygook that surrounds agile felt like giant “Keep Out!”

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

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. Requirements and specifications are more flexible and developed within cross functional teams with constantly evolving business needs.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 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

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Of course, software developers have long since figured out how to export data from one application to another. This is a special challenge when the original developer of the often homegrown legacy systems doesn’t have well-defined interfaces, documentation is scarce, and the software engineers are not available anymore.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10