Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. For good reason, the $30-billion company has long been held up as a role model of how to manage innovation. our new vision" of growth and innovation. The new CEO is making sustainability, growth, and innovation a powerful trifecta.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When I urge managers in a company to make open innovation part of their innovation strategy, they get it conceptually. They understand that the infusion of fresh ideas can also open their own R&D engineers and technologists to new and different possibilities and cause them to push their thinking further.

Innovation 8

Innovation Maturity Engineering Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

But one big part of the Facebook story that rarely gets told is that of the company's internal innovation culture. Our conversation revealed these innovation tips that Facebook is currently following — and shared exclusively with HBR. There isn't a review board that designers and engineers go present to with PowerPoint slides.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Discount Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In turn, you’ll be able to pinpoint gaps in your industry and create innovative solutions which set you apart from your competitors. Market your brand well on search engines. In particular, you should try to reach potential clients on search engines. Digital marketing is an essential part of any good business strategy.

Engineering 10

Engineering Brand Reference Marketing 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. Their optimization strengths had become innovation weakness.

Process 12

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

There is no doubt that China has been one of the main engines of global growth in the last three decades. As China moves away from a manufacturing-driven economy to a more consumption and service-driven model, Chinese companies will have to find new ways of managing and motivating their employees.

Incentives 8

Incentives Management Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. Discount furniture maker IKEA engages customers in assembling their own furniture, a process that allows them to customize as well. Rethink your innovation competencies.

Company 14

Company Software Call Center Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. For example, detection of negative sentiment could lead to a discount on your next purchase or a proactive phone call to address an issue.

Directory 15

Directory System Media Video 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

“It’s no good fighting an election campaign on the facts,” Cambridge Analytica’s managing director told an undercover reporter, “because actually it’s all about emotion.” reducing traffic to an independent app by making it harder to find on its search engine or app store. ” To target U.S.

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

General Electric helps hospitals manage and use patient data rather than selling them the equipment and software to do the job. Rolls Royce runs the engines you see on the wings of your plane. If not, for all the interest shown by the supplier, the customer is going to view the solution simply as a volume discount offer.

B2B 14

B2B Business Objectives Focus Group Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

Their developers focus on meeting operational and environmental requirements, caring little about the physical appearance or user experience of a dashboard- or engine-compartment-mounted device that monitors vehicle data. Fleet logistics companies, for example, monitor the condition and location of their vehicles.

Technology 8

Technology B2B B2C Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

They're the ones Netflix has managed to upset right now. They have to deal with two separate recommendation engines, neither of which will have the full picture. Of course, as separate firms, they should run separate recommendation engines. They're probably big consumers of both Netflix's DVDs and its streaming service.

Strategy 10

Strategy Christensen Price Engineering 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. K-Mart, long the dominant discount chain had gotten comfortable with its leads over competitors. Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. The Christensen doctrine helped Dayton-Hudson create Target, Hewlett-Packard succeed in inkjet printing, and Qantas create its discount JetStar airline. That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home," she said.

Innovation 14

Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. This stochastic discount factor model is the modern economic update of those, correct?

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

The majority of these gains will be realized from better management of pre- and post-production processes – the rest will continue to be derived from the actual manufacturing or production. By 2030, we estimate there is the potential for manufacturers worldwide to realize an estimated $1.4

Industry 8

Industry Automotive Supply Chain Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital. Companies that encourage innovation take steps to overcome these organizational obstacles.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. GE might be first to capitalize on this.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When it comes to the etail/retail conundrum, the most innovative companies are finding ways to blend the two. Amazon, nothing if not innovative, hasn't taken that tack — despite several other recent impressive moves. Instead of bricks versus clicks, it's bricks meet clicks.

Retail 15

Retail Long-term Open-book Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

For example, some of the innovative fuselage material in a Boeing Dreamliner could also be used to make wall panels or roofs for houses. This was a discount webshop started by Luis Krug in 2009 on which Correos worked as a logistics partner and had to adapt its logistics chain in order to handle a wide variety of products.

Company 8

Company Construction Seminar Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. Zooming in on the sales challenge helps to highlight the difficulty of business model innovation.

Business Model 8

Business Model Media Industry Advertising 8