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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Innovation cycles speed up and time-to-market goes down, and the resulting changes in the value chain compound customer demand for quality.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. 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. Still, that frustration is a natural part of agile innovation.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

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. These units can host your specific digital initiatives, start developing a catalog of digital services and nurture and grow new digital skills.

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Team Chemistry Is the New Holy Grail of Performance Analytics

Harvard Business Review

“Makes teams better” is fast-becoming both an essential ingredient to getting hired and a mission-critical skill-set worth measuring. have become early adopters and innovators in multidimensional measurements for individuals and teams alike.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. 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.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

These core competencies are the baseline for any PM and the best PMs hone these skills over years of defining, shipping, and iterating on products. In fact, it is taking these skills and personality traits and applying them to the right company that will ultimately guarantee success. Pricing and revenue modeling. Not necessarily.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made. The individuals managing investments in each of the quadrants of the portfolio should also have different skills, attitudes, and motivations. Selecting project managers.

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