Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. It’s hard to imagine that a success rate that low would be tolerated in any other business function. It’s not.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation. Why aren''t leaders tapping the crowdfunding capabilities of their own innovation ecosystems to stimulate their people and ideas?

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L Company Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations. Here are five: Commit from the Top.

P&L 11

P&L Agility Fashion Media 11

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. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? Asking A.G.

P&L 8

P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

P&L 11

P&L How To Finance Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

As a result, a limited number of people have full, end-to-end accountability for business success — and there are few opportunities for managers to learn all aspects of a business. If successful, they then were given responsibility for increasingly larger businesses. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

Management 14

Management P&L Incubator Finance 14

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Interactive capacity includes: Mutualism – ability to see your success in the success of others.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. They listen as well as they speak. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Here’s a brief account of how GE quickly scaled up a sizable software start-up within a big, successful conglomerate. 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. Getting Started.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

An innovative care provider organization in Eastern Massachusetts with 30 medical practices and a home health and hospice agency, it already receives almost 80% of revenue from global payments (a fixed payment for all of a patient’s medical treatment during a specified period of time) or other risk contracts. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). China, China, and China. Watch this space.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” What successful companies are doing right. Before that, successful business models “were created more by accident than by design or foresight, and became clear only after the fact. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

For a technology person to succeed, the coding skills are only a beginning. For long-term success, the person has to look “Beyond Code&# – mostly related to the people side of things. I was hooked on the book as soone as I saw your nine L's in the table of contents. Best, Raj Manohar P Thanks a ton, Rajesh!

Download 28

Download Licensing Software Open-book 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

PepsiCo has had great success with the method , finding ways to reduce cost and risk for key brands, but execs wanted to apply the tool across thousands of products. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. This month, H&M also rolled out a global clothing collection and recycling effort.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9