Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

The radical democratization of business over the last decade created by open innovation, crowdsourcing, and co-creation is transforming how advertising organizations work. Typically, outdoor companies use professional athletes as field testers to help them not only test their products but also help innovate.

Advertising 9

Advertising Brand Innovation Creativity 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Drucker didn''t quite frame it in these terms, but perhaps we need to expand our focus on innovation beyond the narrow frame of technology and product innovation. If we are to successfully adapt to the escalating complexity of our environment, we need to invest more time and energy in exploring institutional innovation.

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

It provides consumers with a viable, lower cost alternative to the manufacturer branded products. So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl? There are over 4,000 Aldi stores in Germany – they are everywhere. billion to $8.6

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

The theory of disruption explains why incumbent businesses – with high fixed cost infrastructures and embedded beliefs about what the market wants – fail to adopt business models that lower the cost of their services and drive product accessibility to entirely new sets of users.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Even if the United States implemented all the approaches whose effectiveness has been measured, only 40% of the estimated $1 trillion of wasteful spending would be addressed, leaving a significant opportunity for innovation in all areas of health care. Aggressive supply-side reforms.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The discipline they brought to these often loosely-run businesses drove much of the post-war productivity boom. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products. Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. Scotland’s NHS serves 5 million people with a fixed, tax-funded budget of around $18 billion. Working under a fixed-cost ceiling was, of course, difficult. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. And in these discussions, most executives acknowledge the tendency to send mixed signals and the impact on the productivity and commitment of external resources.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

This problem is likely to get worse as personalized medicine becomes more common, more patients get to choose between competing private health plans, and employers shrink the coverage they offer employees in order to reduce their labor costs. Problems may get worse.

Cost 8

Cost Insurance Incentives Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. He excluded tech industries from the analysis since his aim was to study how IT adoption was helping firms, rather than industries that produce IT-related products.)

Document 8

Document Industry Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is delivered to patients.

Health Care 10

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 10