Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Once upon a time, before the era of big data analytics, corporations had similarly routine business growth issues and threats: i.e.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. 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. Read more from CA Technologies: The Key to Agile Success?

Agility 9

Agility Technology Development Content 9

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 53

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

After four years, systems had been tinkered with so much that new product launches became not only prohibitively expensive but also needed a very long time to market. IT management Information & technology Technology' Unintentionally, this selection bias added complexity to an already complex IT architecture.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Agility Development Organization Software 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. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market.

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Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. Displacement generally is easier to combat than disruption.

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Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

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.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity.

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IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 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. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

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.

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Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 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."

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McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

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.

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Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. It also required us to amend our compensation practices to be competitive in the technology space.”

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 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. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 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.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. 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.

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CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts? Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space. Information & technology Managing people Talent management' You can make an excellent living doing research in physical and/or inorganic chemistry.

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Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. 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. Insight Center.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 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.

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Agility Software Incentives Banking 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. Do you have the flexibility and agility to capitalize on market opportunities when they arise? Survey Data Shows That Many Companies Are Still Not Truly Agile.

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Agility Metrics Technology Succession 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. If you didn't accidentally happen upon a solution, you were simply out of luck.

Software 8

Software Innovation Sharpe Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

Reduce time to market for this product). He could go on and say, “The BPI team sees many opportunities to streamline the process and we will use technology to make workflow easier and information transparent to all involved.” It may be easier to use common terms, like, “What are your goals for this BPI project?”

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BPM Process Tips Management 56

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. When I first joined BNP Paribas Fortis, for example, two younger and more dynamic banks had just overtaken us.

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Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Introducing new technologies is exciting, but it is crucial to find a way to make them work alongside well-established and proven systems. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. The Integration of Legacy Systems.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

A recent Fast Company profile hints that Flyknit’s small footprint and low labor intensity could help Nike put more factories in more places, slashing time-to-market as well as import duties. The tools to do this are already here. The washing machine example above is just one idea among thousands, but it raises immediate issues.

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Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Conversely, why market cigarettes? 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. Social media spending?

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

A big reason is technological complexity. You have to understand these fundamentals to craft trade-policy prescriptions — which, by the way, I think the free trade agreements largely do: A thick supplier market. Regions that have thick markets of suppliers have a big advantage. Nearness to market.

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Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8