Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

M&A is central to many companies’ growth strategies. This might have worked in the past when markets moved incrementally. But in a global business environment that is changing exponentially , the market moves too quickly. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Topic Images/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Organization 10

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Strategy, after all, is about tradeoffs — choosing where to focus. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

Agility 8

Agility Technology Development Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

No strategy is static. Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. These digital innovators use the modern-day infrastructure as Lego-like building blocks to build novel and interesting new products and services. Insight Center.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

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

The best business strategies assume the world is dynamic, not static. For example, the idea that market share leadership leads to cost leadership which creates defensible advantage is a dynamic argument. Managers have come a long way in the past 20 years toward appreciating its role in their strategies.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. But agile innovation teams work better than current approaches, and agile principles hold that making immediate progress beats waiting for perfect solutions before starting out. Agile innovation is different. Insight Center.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. There is no time for complacency. 57% of digital leaders use both marketing and IT as primary drivers of digital governance. They drive innovation and speed up time to market.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. While many startups fail because of poor execution, I would argue that the majority fail because their product has no market. First, it’s easy to talk yourself out of a good idea.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. paul garbett for hbr. What is missing from this equation for growth? Insight Center.

Innovation 11

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Declaring big targets in lieu of having a real strategy. The single most unifying factor of an organization is a widely known, enthusiastically embraced strategy. If you go around the room and ask members of the executive team “What’s our strategy?” ” you’ll likely get many different answers.

Mission Statement 8

Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Today, payers and providers are using a range of strategies to accomplish this goal, including patient-centered medical homes , value-based contracting , and accountable care organizations (ACOs). To implement REBP at scale, most payers will have to shift their focus from prospective to retrospective models in most markets.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8