Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models.

Agility 8

Agility Technology Development Content 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. This can be done by building alliances of support, having reputable endorsements, establishing high quantity, and using means such as discounts or samples to build a market presence. Let me explain. About the Author.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Many companies have managed to gain an edge tapping into its transformative power. After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. Make sure top management understands this. That’s the way to improve your time-to-market without compromising on product quality.

Agility 35

Agility Planning Project Decentralization 35

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

After discovering a new material that achieves the same texture in a foot cream , they were able to shorten their time to market by finding and partnering with the leading researcher in developing this ingredient and launching their first hair product successfully.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Your Voice of Encouragement

MAY 14, 2010

Unfortunately, multi-tasking has often been perceived as a characteristic of energetic, hard-working, and goal-driven workers; a necessity to get things done in a competitive, time-to-market world. We're beginning to see, however, that multi-tasking is not necessarily the ideal work style that it's been thought to be.

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Meyer Video Blog eBook 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

As one of my clients was going through a series of organizational changes, a valued middle manager reacted negatively in each town hall, asking inappropriately detailed questions as if it was a game of “gotcha,” to show that the ramifications hadn’t been fully considered. Becoming a Manager. You and Your Team Series.

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Team How To Planning Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

For most companies, both M&A and organic growth are managed like rocket launches. Once launched, the opportunity is micro-managed to ensure that everything goes according to plan. This might have worked in the past when markets moved incrementally. The first step is to find a founder’s quest.

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Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

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

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.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. The portfolio tool can be used as a common frame of reference in management discussions about a number of areas.

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Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But this was the first time attending the event where so many of the top-tier athletic luminaries—particularly coaches and managers—spoke so wistfully and ambitiously about the analytic alchemy that can turn teammates into champions. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts?

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Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I knew that the new head of engineering and the head of product management had worked through a ton of issues to get to this review meeting prepared. But just then, the CEO interrupted and asked the product managers in the back row of seats, "What are the weaknesses with this roadmap?". Some long seconds passed.

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CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me. I have formally researched management tools and techniques for 25 years. We break large problems into manageable tasks. Maybe this group includes you.

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

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. Related Video.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time. Managers have come a long way in the past 20 years toward appreciating its role in their strategies. It was in 1990 that George Stalk and Tom Hout of BCG published Competing Against Time , pointing out that time was an unexploited aspect of competitiveness.

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McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Haier’s organizational reinventions allow it to accelerate the time to market for its Tianzun advanced household heater/air conditioner/air purifier — a potentially disruptive advantage in what is a slow-moving industry. Again, this is true disruption (although not particularly successful outside of China so far).

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Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Digital leaders, those companies that have managed their digital transformations successfully, all show common characteristics in the way they have shaped their IT to work differently with the business. Service delivery is marked by a ''good enough'' approach to error tolerance, relying more on rapid iterations and short cycle times.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. IT management Information & technology Technology' It''s C-Suite Problem.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

“Urgency” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging and pressure from the Board is mounting. ” Processes like strategy, selection, rewards, performance management, and resource allocation must have values woven deeply into them with undeniable consistency between actions and words.

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Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Workshop 10

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. The two managers secured buy-in from top BMW R&D executives to launch such a unit, and they received top-management approval for the unit in July 2014.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.) Challenge R&D teams to create "good enough" solutions.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 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. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network.

Globalization 10

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.) Challenge R&D teams to create "good enough" solutions.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Read more from CA Technologies: Using AI and Machine Learning for Agile Development and Portfolio Management. To be truly competitive in the digital economy, you must be built to change. Survey Data Shows That Many Companies Are Still Not Truly Agile.

Agility 8

Agility Metrics Technology Succession 8

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. If she spent even a few minutes chatting with her customer, her delivery times would suffer.

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Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

But to get beyond the hype, managers need to understand some underlying challenges and paradigm shifts. This is often overlooked by managers, but it is a big deal. We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

Faster times to market, greater flexibility on the way there, and greater focus on the customer — common results of a successful lean implementation — are all positives. As a member of a growth board, you are there not to manage ideas but to establish the permissions needed to gain advantages for your organization.

Innovation 11

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

As I’ve worked with companies for 30 years, I’ve observed a recurring management vice I’ve called “faux-hesion”… the institutionalized pretense of unity. “Speed” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging.

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Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

And because it focuses on acute episodes, REBP acts as a necessary complement to payment and care-delivery models designed to improve prevention and chronic-care management. Finally, REBP gives payers a way to prepare for the future, when episode-based performance management is likely to be a required capability.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 13