Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. And, once again, business leaders would do well to pay close attention to the strategic implications.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It was in 1990 that George Stalk and Tom Hout of BCG published Competing Against Time , pointing out that time was an unexploited aspect of competitiveness. Out of their work came a new business focus on "time to market" and "cycle time."

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

But a big and growing challenge is emerging: Once your tech teams have begun to master these new ways of working — improving time to market, continuous learning, responsiveness, and collaboration — they often find that the pace of work they desire is substantially hindered by the lack of agility in HR.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But this was the first time attending the event where so many of the top-tier athletic luminaries—particularly coaches and managers—spoke so wistfully and ambitiously about the analytic alchemy that can turn teammates into champions. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts?

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Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

People are selected, evaluated, and trained on how to embody them. “Urgency” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging and pressure from the Board is mounting. First, accountability for living them exists top to bottom.

Bottom-up 10

Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

To be fair, in the 20th century there really wasn’t any other model for how to build startups other than write a plan, raise money, and execute — and the bubble put this method on steroids. Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, reduced time to market, and slashed the cost of development.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. The people who work for Ryanair know what the priority is, and thus know how to allocate their time on the job.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

They drive innovation and speed up time to market. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Nestlé , the global food giant, has implemented such a digital service unit, with a view to accelerate the deployment of digital services, harmonize digital technology platforms and scale local innovation.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In doing so, Dr Reddy's strengthens its core generic drugs business and boosts the custom manufacturing services it provides to Big Pharma and nimble biotech startups.

Globalization 10

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 10

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

This blog focuses on how to motivate, engage, and coach the Executive Sponsor and Process Owner during a Business Process Improvement (BPI) project. Reduce time to market for this product). Also see how he responds when you ask him to relate the improvement targets and vision to the company’s overall strategy.

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Faster times to market, greater flexibility on the way there, and greater focus on the customer — common results of a successful lean implementation — are all positives. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. What is missing from this equation for growth? Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Innovation 12

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Of course, software developers have long since figured out how to export data from one application to another. But a major challenge arises from the fact that because these systems were designed independently, they weren’t designed originally to talk to each other.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In contrast to the labor-intensive cut-and-stitch process that has defined the athletic footwear industry for decades, Nike figured out how to knit a shoe from the sole upward in one piece, using a single, highly configurable machine. How much leeway do your customers get?

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Among these parameters are cost thresholds, stop-loss provisions, the degree of gain- and risk-sharing, whether and how to normalize unit prices, and whether to steer members to certain providers. How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value. Second, payers will need to develop greater technical sophistication to ensure fairness (e.g.,

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8