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

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

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. Create incentive systems for salespeople to sell frugal products.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Analogous solutions are extremely beneficial to businesses because they reduce time to market, and they can get stalled projects moving again. But for a long time they weren't easy to find. Since innovative solutions are built upon what people tend to overlook (i.e., But we've only scratched the surface.

Software 8

Software Innovation Sharpe Efficiency 8

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

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.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. What does the availability of re-usable infrastructure do for digital innovators?

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency. Such units present strong advantages.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. They are essentially R&D investments in unproven ways to use digital technologies. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 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

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.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

While sports and election stats guru Nate Silver—who decamped from The New York Times to ESPN —observed that quantifying chemistry in more team-oriented sports such as basketball and football matters far more than in more individualized performance sports such as baseball. Information & technology Managing people Talent management'

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

He explains: "Static efficiency refers to how effective any set of social and economic arrangements is in generating the maximum output of goods and service for any current level of inputs, using existing technologies. Out of their work came a new business focus on "time to market" and "cycle time."

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

And then this small voice, untraceable for a moment because it was so small, started to explain how this plan would put the company in 2nd place in almost every aspect of innovation or time to market. So the challenging, dissenting voice can, at times, be tied to leadership. The voice grew in clarity and volume.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

If you are an aspiring PM concerned you lack the basic tech skills for the role, you might consider taking online courses such as the renowned Introduction to Computer Science ( CS50 ) course offered by Harvard University or one of the many intro and advanced technology courses offered by The Flatiron School.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

First, we’ve seen dramatic improvements in flexible automated fabrication, exemplified by innovations like Tesla Motors’ robot-heavy car factories and Nike’s revolutionary Flyknit process. But more than just time and money, the shift will require a new kind of thinking, seeing physical products as platforms, too.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And in terms of its effects on managerial decision-making, the new system should create feedback and incentives that nudge managers toward innovating for tomorrow's world, not optimizing for today's. An innovation-based measure would lead to an acceleration in investment with positive benefits for growth. As the late C.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12