Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. The innovator's job is now to create wins across the board. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Improving the in-store experience, promoting omnichannel shopping and fulfillment options, and developing in-person service innovations are avenues that leverage its brand equity and core competencies — and they’re approaches that would put Amazon at a disadvantage. But, more important, it should excel at brick-and-mortar.

IT Strategy 11

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 1, 2011

BOTTOMLINE: Building an organization that executes its strategy is the greatest core competence an organization can have -- and doing so is the greatest challenge in business. complete strategy execution coaching program. It's what we refer to as the "Growth Paradox": the better you execute, the bigger the challenges you'll face.

Core Competence 103

Core Competence Executive Coaching Software Reference 103

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 1, 2011

BOTTOMLINE: Building an organization that executes its strategy is the greatest core competence an organization can have -- and doing so is the greatest challenge in business. complete strategy execution coaching program. It's what we refer to as the "Growth Paradox": the better you execute, the bigger the challenges you'll face.

Core Competence 98

Core Competence Executive Coaching Software Reference 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

By management system, they're referring to the integrated set of processes and tools that a company uses to develop its strategy, translate it into operational actions, and monitor and improve the effectiveness of both. Innovate Purposefully ). By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls.

System 98

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 98

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

As generations-old business models are upended by innovations in retail, financial services, bookselling, and a host of other industries, companies must continually adjust their strategic positioning to edge out rivals. But then it recovered by innovating — fast. When Innovation Is Strategy. An HBR Insight Center.

Innovation 8

Innovation Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

He was also innovative. Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. Later, he pulled off impressive turnarounds at Circle K convenience stores and Taco Bell before taking the top job at Blockbuster.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

By management system, they're referring to the integrated set of processes and tools that a company uses to develop its strategy, translate it into operational actions, and monitor and improve the effectiveness of both. Innovate Purposefully ). By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls.

System 85

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The Fog of Innovation — that moment when you realize that the data you need to make a critical decision about an innovative idea just isn't clear. I remember distinctly a large company that proudly told me about how it got all of its most important executives to sit on an all-powerful innovation board that met every 90 days.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Innovation Banking Budgeting 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. Given this context, a recent study exploring the role of online marketplaces in the legal profession is particularly interesting.

Budgeting 40

Budgeting Participative Marketing Operations 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2023

How Molson Coors formulated its strategy for entering the cannabis beverages business.

Globalization 17

Globalization Marketing Company IT Strategy 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

As the company seeks to grow beyond its Indian roots and compete with the best globally, innovation is becoming increasingly central to its strategy. To spark innovation and keep the company from avoiding risks, the prize is intended to communicate how important trying and failing can be. Failure is a Gold Mine!"

Globalization 14

Globalization Innovation IT Strategy Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

But as Steve Blank, Henry Chesbrough, and others have pointed out , that advantage is offset by the daunting fact that corporate innovators have to fight a war on two fronts. This is where the concept of stealth innovation can help you. To some extent, you can secure the necessary flexibility by negotiating it up front.

Innovation 11

Innovation Conflict of Interest Strategy System 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It’s a solution we discovered during our research in India, and involves breakthrough innovations that drive down health care delivery costs so much that the margins from serving those who can pay is more than enough to cover the costs of those who cannot. It also pursued process innovations that resulted in cost savings.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

It is one of the first products to launch out of Google X, the company’s research lab that aspires to “moonshot” innovations, and which is also developing a self-driving car. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity? Some emphasize the importance of sticking to innovations adjacent to a firm’s core business.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

Company 12

Company Insurance Engineering Software 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. ” Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits, and raise the dividend. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence. As overall business strategy planning ties closer to IT strategy, four personas of the next-generation CIO will emerge: 1. Consequently, the role of the CIO will evolve.

CIO 15

CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In her underappreciated book, The Innovation Killer , Cynthia Barton Rabe, a former innovation strategist at Intel, explains how "what we know limits what we can imagine." The term it used to describe its strategy was "retailtainment" — making it fun for customers to do business in an industry that was devoid of personality.

Banking 18

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.

Compliance 8

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing? To maintain strategic alignment, a company’s people, culture, structure and processes have to flex and change as the strategy itself shifts.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Verizon would not have been able to so quickly and successfully change its strategy without being willing to question and overhaul traditional organizational structures. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. In short, encourage innovation, begin with execution, and name the strategy later. Insight Center.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy COO CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Define Your Strategy. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

A company that creates a sustainable competitive advantage, executes well and reinvests to solidify its strategy will find that its share price accurately reflects its value. Are younger insurgent companies faster to launch products, to innovate, to react to customers? Finally, boards should be highly attuned to speed.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Its strategy of coming into the market from the high end did not fit the typical demand-side disruption playbook. Instead, it looked as though Tesla’s innovation was to redesign the car in a way that fundamentally meshed software and hardware. Along the way there has been lots of discussion as to whether Tesla was a disruptor.

Strategy 8

Strategy Automotive Mass Marketing Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

That digital focus helped Adidas reshape its strategy for today’s mobile, more empowered consumer. “As an organization, we openly talk about the importance of taking risks and the important role innovation plays in everyday work,” Godsey says. ” Data-Driven Growth in a Digital World.

Content 8

Content Brand Storytelling Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Indeed, the company eventually announced its strategy to venture massively into cloud computing. On average, they are thus more likely to initiate a shift to a more entrepreneurial and innovative strategy. Each year, about 10% of the companies on the S&P 500 Index experience a CEO transition.

CEO 8

CEO Letter Retail Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

This month he’s publishing his second book based on the interviews: “Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.” He talked with HBR about why a company’s culture is more important than its strategy — and some of the innovative tactics that CEOs have used to help create a high-performing culture.

CEO 12

CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. How Boards Can Innovate.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

You sometimes hear managers complain that their organization has no strategy. Every organization has a strategy: its strategy is what it does. But unless it is reflected in the actions of an organization, it is not the organization’s strategy. This isn’t true. Think about it.

Strategy 9

Strategy Bottom-up Organization Report 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Over the last six years the federal government funded more than 50 new regional innovation “clusters,” and across America new accelerators and entrepreneurship boot camps are proliferating. Ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship support.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

The common thread is that today''s model of capitalism overemphasizes short-term financial data and neglects information that gets at the true sources of sustainable value creation — things like innovation, brand equity, customer loyalty, and key stakeholder relationships. But there are other reasons too.

Report 8

Report Short-term Press Release Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Stay secure and boost innovation. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers. The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Be strategic and operational.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., My friend Craig Bickel , Principal at IT strategy consultancy WGroup told me that: "While functional responsibilities will remain specialized, innovation, implementation, and value realization must be shared between the business and IT."

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

For me, IKEA’s success is mostly due to the clarity of its strategy. What IKEA did was to replace the warehouse atmosphere associated with most discount furniture retailers with a cheerful, innovative look and feel, wrapping its bare-bone offerings with an amusing set of attributes. No delivery, no assembly.

Strategy 13

Strategy Document Comparison Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Or does it focus on customer service and helping the business achieve its strategy? Leaders should consider what the business is trying to achieve and design metrics around areas such as innovation, stakeholder experience, risk mitigation, improving ways of working, and spending wisely rather than less.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Objective Cost Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress. In retrospect, it seems inevitable. We have observed companies doing this to a certain degree.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13