Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

But a big and growing challenge is emerging: Once your tech teams have begun to master these new ways of working — improving time to market, continuous learning, responsiveness, and collaboration — they often find that the pace of work they desire is substantially hindered by the lack of agility in HR.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. The new, ideal IT person — a kind of "Homo Digitus" — needs to combine excellent digital specialist skills with deep functional business knowledge. They reduce duplication of efforts and skills, thus reducing operational costs.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Richard Feynman, whose work in quantum electrodynamics won him a Nobel Prize in physics, taught that the best way to master any new skill was to teach it to a beginner.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” So GE has hired 1,000 software engineers and data scientists to provide enhanced software and analytical skills across GE’s many businesses. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8