Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Related Video.

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Agility Software Incentives Banking 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. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Called "Why US Productivity Can Grow Without Killing Jobs," it takes as a given that this would strike readers as counterintuitive. Could it really be that businesses could become more productive and yet not find themselves with excess workers standing around? The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time.

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McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? For some time now we’ve been living into a smarter world filled with Big Data and analytics, and a more connected one that’s been described as “ the internet of things.” The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

When organizations want to build a process culture, they need to identify leaders for each process improvement effort—namely an Executive Sponsor, Process Owner, Project Lead and Business Process Management (BPM) Team Facilitator. Reduce time to market for this product). and then turn them into improvement targets (e.g,

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai. Reliance MediaWorks. and the U.K.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. Operations in a Connected World.

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Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure.

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Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. Just as electronic commerce would later sweep business, mass production came to one industry after another. But unlike websites, factories were capital intensive.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

They ignore the realities of how global manufacturing now works — how it has evolved into a complex network of interlinked factories that together build many of the products sold today. Generally, what we see is the country where the final assembly of a product took place. A big reason is technological complexity.

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Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8