Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2016

In today’s hypercompetitive, white-water, VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business environment, if you are not growing you are dying. Probably not.

Hypercompetition 120

Hypercompetition Development Uncertainty Training 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. In this environment, profits come from the company's ability to make the best use of technology to flexibly create high-quality products with continual process improvement and few accidents.

Hypercompetition 12

Hypercompetition Human Capital Short-term Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

An organization that grew up producing newspapers, for instance, not only lacks key skills to build a digital content company but also might actively resist embracing the new in order to protect the business it knows and loves. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit. That doesn’t work for a host of practical reasons.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Krolick himself is a pilot, and although he does admit that his pilot skills don’t necessarily help him out in the day-to-day aspects of marketing, they do help him appreciate the challenges that exist on the front lines and cross-functionally. The retailer also has an app that alerts employees to the latest trends on Pinterest.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8