Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

While this simple phrase has been used time and time again to discuss the many obstacles people and companies face, an animal metaphor does describe required innovation actions rather effectively. Speed is the speed of innovation of a company relative to the industry. As a tortoise, breakthrough innovation is critical.

Innovation 8

Innovation Franchising Maturity Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. have become early adopters and innovators in multidimensional measurements for individuals and teams alike. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts?

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute. Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time.

Media 386

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 386

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. The Gillette story clearly illustrates the simple math of Category Growth.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

More and more business customers have quit buying stand-alone products and have started buying integrated solutions. Many technologies, such as computers, copiers, fax machines, and other office equipment are rapidly converging. Several factors have helped accelerate the move to integrated solutions.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In the 1980s, I was part of the team that sold Sesame Street around the world — either licensed and broadcast in English or in locally adapted indigenous-language co-productions. I was curious to see how Sesame Workshop had continued to grow its operations over the years while remaining true to its mission to improve the lives of kids.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. None as far as I can tell.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. So creating value today is not only about the quality of the product or service we deliver. Here, trust is a function of the brand messaging lining up with the consumer's actual interaction with the product or service.

Brand 15

Brand Hotels Reputation Franchising 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

Case Study 14

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. Real Madrid: winning the hearts and minds of 500 million dedicated fans. “It’s tribal.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. They are: Staffing. Perhaps more than anything else, this has been the key to PlayWorks' successful scaling.

How To 15

How To Franchising ROI Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. This van is currently being tested in London ahead of volume production in 2019. How are consumers going to react to all of this?

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We were eager to take this product to the disadvantaged communities who desperately needed it. Little did we know the time and capital it would require for us to get from a concept to a manufactured and clinically tested product — not to mention what it would take to build a distribution channel to sell our product.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Industrial age measures can''t evaluate Serendipity Economy results, leaving its outcomes like invention and innovation, process improvements, and new businesses relegated to the evidence of anecdote. Microsoft provides productivity tools that create presentations quickly and efficiently. Technology investments work the same way.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung. Bottom line: Are you game or are you out?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Steve Jobs' revival of the company began with a decision to narrow product lines down to a handful, and its big product successes of recent years have all been defined to a large extent by what Jobs and Apple's designers decided to leave off. Of course, modern technology businesses have some other unique strategic characteristics.

Strategy 9

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. The NBA has a digital television product called League Pass, which can be live-streamed onto smart phones, tablets and other devices.

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

Blog 344

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 344

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

It should come as no surprise, however, that as any innovative idea spreads, so do the misconceptions and mythology. For corporations, innovation, product acquisition, talent retention, and supply change development may be the benefits. Family businesses squash entrepreneurial initiative in order to protect their “franchise.”.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

One might add that at the time of the Founders, America had approximately 2 million people, and many fewer had the franchise than today. M [link] James Strock Great points, Mike. Now we're over 300 million. No one could credibly argue that our political leadership is anywhere near the same class as the Founders' era. I Think Not.

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Blog Politics Short-term Long-term 406