Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Smart companies realize that intelligence about their customers can actually lead to a lot more than greater marketing effectiveness. It a powerful tool for identifying innovations, especially with the opportunities for data gathering afforded by smart technologies and social media. CUSTOMER INTELLIGENCE INSIGHT CENTER.

Marketing 15

Marketing Restructuring Brand Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Can he do it?

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998); and an outstanding, senior executive from the private sector, Charles Rossotti , was appointed for a five-year term to drive the changes.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

You’re an executive of a clothing retailer and your marketing team detects a new trend that you’re well-positioned to feed. They get locked into detailed agreements that turn out to be poorly aligned with their aspirations and that provide no room for innovation when markets change. The agreement was called off.

Innovation 8

Innovation Retail Banking Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

At an offsite, she challenged her team to identify what it would take to grow revenues — be it taking market share from competitors, meeting unmet customer needs, or some other undiscovered direction. In parallel, a sub-team is now looking at possible layoffs and restructuring options in case the growth ideas don't bear fruit.

Budgeting 15

Budgeting Restructuring Uncertainty Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Offshoring some portion of a firm’s innovation may be beneficial, the authors argue, but beyond a certain point it becomes counterproductive. With nations like China ramping up their innovative capacities, why stop at offshoring manufacturing or customer support?

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

To do so, they need to find a way of interacting with the Greek state, which is notorious for slowing down businesses, imposing a mountain of regulation and protecting incumbents by discouraging innovators. Yet they hesitate to restructure, hoping that rolling debt over will allow them to restrict their write-offs.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Banking Media Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Collaborative innovations. Companies must become more innovative to better respond to the highly competitive, global business environment.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Nothing has changed in most African banks in terms of structure, despite the avalanche of transformations in the market. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. And then the innovators improve the technology steadily over time, allowing it to serve more and more of the overall market, which causes great trauma for incumbents who stuck to their legacy ways of doing things. Our survival depended upon it.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This environment and the behavior produced by the prevailing set of beliefs to which CEOs subscribe have deepened a widespread public distrust of corporations and capitalism. The stock market is short-term-oriented. The market favorably receives projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. They learned how to set clearer goals, engage senior executives, mobilize resources, and lead through influence (which is especially important in a public sector environment like MPAC’s).

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

While having the right education is an essential asset in today’s cutthroat job market, it can become difficult to obtain a position without experience using various applications and technologies that enhance and amplify one’s resume. Robotic Process Automation works effectively in an agile development environment.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

One of the dilemmas of firms in rapidly transforming environments is that their ownership structure may get in the way of making tough decisions. As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Take Motorola, for instance.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

As we write in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , successful companies in today’s diverse and dynamic business environments do exactly that: they select right approach to strategy and execution for each part of the business—and animate the resulting collage of approaches as circumstances change or each businesses evolves.

Strategy 8

Strategy Maturity Business Model Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” Comparison of outcomes is essential to disseminate innovations from one individual or team to another. In 2005, when Prof. For more, see this HBS case.).

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2016

It drives large efforts from spearheading a movement to bringing a game-changing product or technology to market. It animates us as people and fuels organizational innovation, value creation, and growth. People start companies with an idea, a discovery, a notion or some other impetus to bring some thing or service to the market place.

Hedge 50

Hedge Long-term Restructuring Maturity 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To achieve this target, however, China will need to find new engines of growth, such as consumption, innovation, and entrepreneurship, all of which are emphasized in the plan. All point in the direction of further embracing competitive market mechanisms.

Planning 8

Planning Policies GDP Health Care 8