The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Further analysis, employing illustrative data from interviews, revealed four mechanisms of causal decision-making that hindered venture gestation, termed as ‘causal brakes’: Devoting time to market research and planning. Waiting for specific events to occur, such as investor commitments.

Development 60

Development Entrepreneur Long-term Planning 60

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company can then determine its market acceptance and determine whether to proceed with manufacturing the item. Time to Market. Traditional manufacturing methods lead to a lag time between obtaining the initial quote to producing the item.

Offshoring 107

Offshoring Engineering Cost Bottom-up 107

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It can help give you more control over your product, lower costs, and time-to-market, to name a few. With the correct shipping and logistics partner, you’ll be able to concentrate on growing your business without worrying about how it all gets done behind the scenes.

Outsourcing 100

Outsourcing Products Productivity Due Diligence 100

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.

Stage-Gate 128

Stage-Gate Products Productivity Innovation 128

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

In fact, a team of researchers from the City University of Hong Kong found that while supplier involvement significantly increases the quality and reliability, time to market, and innovativeness of new products, customer involvement has only a minor influence on quality and reliability.

Supply Chain 51

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

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.

Meyer 100

Meyer Video Blog eBook 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

That’s the way to improve your time-to-market without compromising on product quality. At the end of the day, you have to experiment to figure out what works and what doesn’t. And only after a series of team-level tests can you start scaling Agile to the whole organization. Adhere to the Core Principles of Agile.

Agility 33

Agility Planning Project Decentralization 33

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

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. We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

Agility 9

Agility Technology Development Content 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The entire process from post-it note to launching the product in the market took under 12 months, less than one-third of the time the division’s previous new product launch required. One of the ways the financial institution was able to accelerate its time to market was by launching multiple experiments simultaneously.

Organization 11

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 11

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

Reduce time to market for this product). Provide Support During the Charter Meeting – During the Charter meeting see if the Process Owner can easily articulate the improvement targets and vision. It may be easier to use common terms, like, “What are your goals for this BPI project?” and then turn them into improvement targets (e.g,

BPM 56

BPM Process Tips Management 56

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Yet companies across all sectors are trying to accelerate innovation so that they can break free from low-growth markets, differentiate, and sustain competitive advantage. Innovation cycles speed up and time-to-market goes down, and the resulting changes in the value chain compound customer demand for quality.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market. APIs and platforms reduces the time-to-market for products and services. Provides a low-cost, real-time network to test ideas. Other fast-rising digital companies like Uber have employed similar approaches.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

For years, agile teams and organizations have measured success using process metrics – time to market, team throughput and cycle times, improved quality, and better predictability of output. Read more from CA Technologies: Using AI and Machine Learning for Agile Development and Portfolio Management.

Agility 8

Agility Metrics Technology Succession 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 15

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 15

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

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

AUGUST 9, 2018

When one client had to consolidate multiple operations to increase efficiency and reduce time to market, it was clear that there wouldn’t be room for all the incumbent leaders. It helped to review the shared history and the acknowledged pain points. Personalize both the impact and the resolution.

Team 14

Team How To Planning Follow-up 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

But Palmer Luckey, now 20, is taking his own sweet time to market — which he’s free to do since his funding comes strings-free from Kickstarter. Called Oculus Rift, it caused a sensation at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Reporters and gamers are clamoring for it. Right now, he’s releasing it only as a developers’ kit. “It

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Document Globalization 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

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. How might CEOs and boards deploy headhunters and hire executives differently if chemistry can be better measured?

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 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. Instead of amending their actions, they amend the values, choosing words antithetical to the known cultural norm needing to be cured.

Bottom-up 10

Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Workshop 10

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

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. New ventures face this question early on, whether they are housed inside big corporations or small start-ups.

Contract Manufacturing 14

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Or begin building a capability in global innovation now to take advantage of lower development costs, faster time to market, and, most important, the ability to leverage dispersed knowledge to gain competitive advantage.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Or begin building a capability in global innovation now to take advantage of lower development costs, faster time to market, and, most important, the ability to leverage dispersed knowledge to gain competitive advantage.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Similarly, Siemens is grouping its affordable offerings — such as the microphone-tech-enabled Fetal Heart Monitor — under the label SMART, which stands for Simple, Maintenance-Friendly, Affordable, Reliable, and Timely-to-Market.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

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

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. The result? Seize the Cash.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 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. Tens of thousands of agile teams have operated for decades without much awareness — let alone active support — from CEOs.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

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. The voice grew in clarity and volume.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Review 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

“Speed” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging. A toxic culture, pervasive unwanted behavior, or a need for organization change can prompt leaders to ramp up focus on “values.” ” Underneath the pithy words is often the insidious intention to correct.

Mission Statement 8

Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 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

MAY 23, 2016

While the implementation has to be evolutionary and take into account existing installations and relationships in the value chain, the results promise to be revolutionary, with as much as 50%+ reductions in time to market and big jumps in productivity.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

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. Unintentionally, this selection bias added complexity to an already complex IT architecture. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

They drive innovation and speed up time to market. Nestlé , the global food giant, has implemented such a digital service unit, with a view to accelerate the deployment of digital services, harmonize digital technology platforms and scale local innovation. Such units present strong advantages.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 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.

Globalization 12

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 12