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. In the meantime, the firm and supply chain invest heavily in the product or service offering, in hopes of luring customers.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

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.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

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. They followed a sequence that resulted in new products or major updates to products every year or two. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 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'

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. On one hand, pure cost-based strategies are now rarely viable because the forces of automated production, mass customization, global supply chains, direct channels, networked devices, etc.,

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. But today there is a third approach, one that will become the dominant path for most entrepreneurs, especially those building information products. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market. Take a company like Airbnb.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

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? What a conundrum! Well of course we know it is not one.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

NewTV is the creation of Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose track record includes head of production at Paramount, chair of Walt Disney Studios, and cofounder of DreamWorks. 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.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs should encourage R&D teams to move away from pursuing over-engineered "perfect products" — which today's thrifty customers find too expensive, hard to use, and eco-unfriendly — and focus instead on developing "good enough" solutions. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

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.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

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.

Contract Manufacturing 11

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 11

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).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 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

JANUARY 25, 2011

We were in a meeting to review the roadmap for the company's new product. 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. Maybe the company was (ahem) finally going to make products that were competitive. Some long seconds passed.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs should encourage R&D teams to move away from pursuing over-engineered "perfect products" — which today's thrifty customers find too expensive, hard to use, and eco-unfriendly — and focus instead on developing "good enough" solutions. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

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.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Early Adopters 8

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. Reliance MediaWorks. Tata Motors appointed Tim Leverthon, who previously led R&D at BMW, as head of its global R&D.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

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. You delivered your product faster, but was it the right product? Is faster delivery into the market having an impact on your bottom line?

Agility 8

Agility Metrics Technology Succession 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?”

BPM 56

BPM Process Tips Management 56

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. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Physical product customizers such as Nike iD and Moto Maker have earned strong customer followings, but they’re still closer to “designed for me” than the “designed by me” experience we’ve been promised. The first manufacturers to offer something similar in a physical product will almost certainly transform their categories.

Offshoring 8

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

Project 8

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. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

ROE 12

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8