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

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

MAY 28, 2014

Google’s strategy to date has been to build great consumer software, then extend these popular applications to enterprises with additional features, often at a fraction of the cost of competitors. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity? Whatever the answer, there is a lesson here about transformative innovation.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

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

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. Big strategies need local options. In short, encourage innovation, begin with execution, and name the strategy later.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy COO CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

By that he means that all the things a business does — not just its logo and visuals, but also its strategy, call to action, customer service, communications with customers, and people — combine to determine what it stands for. Dan's smart observation is that "Brand is everything, and everything is brand."

Brand 15

Brand Positioning Marketing Productivity 15

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

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

For me, IKEA’s success is mostly due to the clarity of its strategy. What’s intriguing about IKEA is that it consciously designed its value proposition and brand identity around contrasts: a set of negatives (things they do not offer) and a few positives (things they offer). No delivery, no assembly. Not even the promise of durability.

Strategy 13

Strategy Document Comparison Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. Recognize the fragility of your position and don’t concentrate your bets.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. Growth: A TV cable company offers special subscription plans for new customers, aiming to achieve a strong market position within 24 months. Why is it that?

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

That's because the key variable in a team's prospects isn't just its skill level, but its region and seeding — its position in the brackets — that determine its odds of advancing toward the championship. Braun simplified its merchandising and brand strategy. Perfection" positioning.

Management 15

Management Retail Brand Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.

Strategic Fit 8

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. On the contrary, success was achieved by senior managers humble enough not to take their initial strategic positions too seriously.

Strategy 15

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

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. In fact, we know a lot about what works from observing this recent experimentation.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Business growth can also depend on factors such as the availability of talent or scarce raw materials that influence, say, a company’s innovation capabilities or its ability to manufacture cost-effectively. We call that process the A-B-C (which stands for Analyze-Benchmark-Calibrate) of developing a globalization strategy.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." He was comfortable making smart bets to position IBM for decades-long growth, such as creating the Emerging Business Organization to incubate new businesses and shield them from P&L pressures. Microsoft's enterprise services stagnated.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Innovative new hospital designs have changed patients’ experiences and expectations of what a hospital should be. The design of environments inside clinical settings has also demonstrated positive impact on patient outcomes, particularly for children. Bright, beautiful lobbies featuring an atrium filled with local flora.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Hotels Health Care Cost 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. How has this strategy worked?

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

As importantly, an effective cybersecurity framework has to overcome barriers to continued economic growth — creating an environment that protects and nurtures innovation. Cybersecurity isn''t just about compliance with laws and regulation — it''s about guarding businesses from the increasing dangers of persistent threats.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Gerrie Fourie, its current CEO, called it “innovating around frustrations.” Yet three things stand out that enable it to grow and prosper. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. So we had to make sure our advertising was [intrusive], our promotions were better and to continually innovate with new things.”. Better Coffee” positioning.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100