Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. It requires new modes of operation. They reduce duplication of efforts and skills, thus reducing operational costs.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Tens of thousands of agile teams have operated for decades without much awareness — let alone active support — from CEOs. Tetra Images/Getty Images.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. Using these principles Intuit began driving design thinking deep into its culture and operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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).

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. Decision making in today’s organizations often no longer has the necessary responsiveness, detaching them from both their customer base and market realities.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

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.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

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. 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

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. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. and the U.K.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

” Incorporating rapid programming practices (“ Agile ” and “ Extreme Programming ”) to bring significant time-to-market and productivity benefits also required new and different skill sets than what were traditionally found within GE. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

Software 8

Software Six Sigma P&L Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, reduced time to market, and slashed the cost of development. Every startup is in a race against time. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash. Seize the Cash. Lean makes sense when capital is scarce and when you need to keep burn rates low.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool. Only around 20% of technologies funded by CVC&A grab enough attention of business units to start co-innovation pilot projects with portfolio startups.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

Reduce time to market for this product). Her programs are based on a unique 3-PEAT method of modeling processes and analyzing data that accelerates operational improvements, and builds leaders and employees who sustain operational excellence. and then turn them into improvement targets (e.g,

BPM 56

BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

They are impatient to make a difference, but they don’t have a financial runway limiting their time to market, and they certainly don’t have a board breathing down their necks demanding a hockey-stick rate of growth.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 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. Prioritization at a strategic and operational level is often the difference between success and failure.

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. In the future vision where the factory only produces a product when there is customer demand or an operation is only performed when there is a “data” signal, we shift to a different paradigm: event-triggered control. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Second, rising labor costs and stronger currency are reducing the appeal of high-volume Chinese manufacturing, and nudging more companies to move operations closer to their headquarters or their customers. Third, the demand for more personalized experiences, nurtured by our highly customizable digital devices, is on the rise.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

That only makes sense if you are operating in a state of equilibrium—which might have been close enough to the truth in some sepia-toned time. In a recent talk at MIT, Infosys founder Narayana Murthy put it this way: "Technological innovation is all about reducing cost, reducing cycle time, making life more comfortable.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

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. Manufacturers want to be close to their suppliers, because this can speed time to market and minimize the risk of disruptions. bound panels to Malaysia.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8