Innovation Leadership Software Time to Market 
Engaging Leader
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Maybe you’ve tried to bring the idea to life, only to have it turn out to be an expensive, time-consuming failure. The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 29, 2015
This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? Would the traditional host organization reject the new software center as an alien entity?
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2016
CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value?
Harvard Business Review
MAY 22, 2018
Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. I wasn’t a software engineer, and I was tempted to leave agile methods to the geeks.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 9, 2013
However, the new handset, its software, and the available applications all failed to excite critics and customers. When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity. Most focused on cutting IT costs.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 17, 2015
Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.
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