Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous. The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. But despite all the pain they have experienced, these industries are wrong.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency. Research points to the latter.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. It can be argued that in many industries substantial numbers of digital applications — for example, online channel to customers and ERP systems — have become so pervasive that they have become mandatory for survival in the industry.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

A lot of business literature advocates teaming up wherever possible to open the doors to new ideas, draw on the unique strengths of others, and speed time to market. The photography market is highly competitive, populated by famous brand names, and dominated by powerful sales channels.

Contract Manufacturing 11

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

He explains: "Static efficiency refers to how effective any set of social and economic arrangements is in generating the maximum output of goods and service for any current level of inputs, using existing technologies. 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

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Performing market assessments. Core Competencies. Running design sprints. ”).

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But high performance companies in industries worldwide are digitally monitoring and measuring their people more comprehensively and rigorously. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts? Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Eventually, they found a great solution in an unlikely place: the music industry. Analogous solutions are extremely beneficial to businesses because they reduce time to market, and they can get stalled projects moving again. But for a long time they weren't easy to find. Problem solved.

Software 8

Software Innovation Sharpe Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0 The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Industrial automation is an evolutionary process. In this regard, talking about a “fourth industrial revolution” can be misleading. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 9

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. The tools to do this are already here.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. Just as electronic commerce would later sweep business, mass production came to one industry after another. Social media spending?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

A big reason is technological complexity. automobile industry over the last five years. While production is approaching all-time highs, the percentage of parts that come from U.S. Manufacturers want to be close to their suppliers, because this can speed time to market and minimize the risk of disruptions.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8