Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Are their particular game situations where their positive—or negative—influence is statistically pronounced? How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts? Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Early Adopters 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

MAY 22, 2018

About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. To be fair, it wasn’t all positive. So, take the initiative. I went out of my way to join them for even a few hours.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rather than marketing its Dacia products as "low-cost" vehicles, Renault is cleverly positioning them as vehicles that are stylish, comfortable, dependable, and affordable — i.e., they deliver more value at less cost.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The primary criterion is the contribution of the investment to the competitive position of the business. For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

If a PM is in love with a feature because it addresses their own pain points — PMs are often super users of the products for which they are responsible — they may cause a user to say they love it too, just to please the PM (“False positive feature validation”).

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Company and unit leaders need to ensure that IT is in a leading position on all key digital projects. They drive innovation and speed up time to market. Despite all the talk of '' shadow IT '', digital transformations that happen without, or despite, IT are a myth. Such units present strong advantages.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

I spoke to Ganesh Bell , Chief Digital Officer and General Manager, Software and Analytics, at GE Power and Water, who sits at the intersection between GE’s Software Center of Excellence and one of its biggest business units, to understand how a corporate startup can work effectively with existing units: “It started with positioning.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In Rich’s old, functional “silo-based” process, a marketing person with a new customer opportunity would contact their favorite R&D associate, the regulatory and quality assurance departments, packaging, and the plant. They focus on fewer customer requests at a time, allowing for a more responsive turnaround.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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. Yet for all of the resources that have gone into applying a lean approach, these organizations do not have much to show yet.

Innovation 12

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

These positions are desirable ones: Project managers value the opportunity to work closely with the senior executives assigned to their projects. The unit includes staff members from all functions and geographies, many of whom spend several years as project managers of global innovation efforts before returning to their area of specialty.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

These positions are desirable ones: Project managers value the opportunity to work closely with the senior executives assigned to their projects. The unit includes staff members from all functions and geographies, many of whom spend several years as project managers of global innovation efforts before returning to their area of specialty.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

REBP identifies which provider is in the best position to affect the clinical outcomes and total costs associated with an episode of care; it then assesses (through retrospective analysis of claims data) the outcomes achieved and costs incurred during each episode over a specific period of time (e.g., quarterly).

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The ability to do that rose to a new level in 1917, when General Motors was in financial difficulty and DuPont took a major position in the company. (GM The feedback from pressing the lever overwhelms the positive sensation they would experience from eat or sleep.). Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12