Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. These issues grow more important as companies try to pull more and more disparate data together — to develop predictive models using machine learning, for example. Encourage the development of new language. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. And that is part and parcel of professional life. Case Study #1: Develop an understanding of your customer’s needs, and show empathic concern.

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Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells. Start with a survey.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 9

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. Jeff Bezos.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. For those who decide to build in flood risk areas, construction teams will be able to use modular materials that can be disassembled like Lego pieces. What will this adaptation look like? The answer varies by location.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. Isn’t that exactly what a strategy should do — help teams and leaders decide the right thing to do in the face of new threats and opportunities?

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