Innovation Operations Quality Time to Market 
Strategy Driven
JUNE 29, 2016
Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.
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. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2016
With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.
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
Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. The designers were focused on creating better user experiences, while the engineers were focused on speed, quality, and efficiency. Insight Center.
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. The first step was to hire someone to run it.
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. They expect quality, and use it both as a selection criteria for purchase and as a constraint for sustained use. First, it’s easy to talk yourself out of a good idea.
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