Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters.

Entrepreneur 19

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

Drucker 13

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

And more recently, athletic apparel company Puma (working with my colleagues at PwC and the UK's TruCost) produced an " environmental P&L " which measured the "real" cost of carbon and other environmental inputs like water. It's innovative and committed, but it also points to a massive global failure of leadership on climate policy.

Price 16

Price P&L White Paper Energy 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. Adam Pretty/Getty Images. It just does not work.”

Execution 18

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

That’s why CMOs need to develop four types of leadership, which are based loosely on Gartner’s Intelligent Brand Framework. The idea is to identify your power center — which one best represents your natural capabilities — and develop skills to flex across these leadership styles. It resonated.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. Food and food waste gets more attention, debate, and innovation: Can cows save the world, or should we make meat in labs?

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain McKinsey Energy Apparel 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. What would this leadership look like over time? consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats.

Talent Management 11

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. But there is another leadership role that has arisen in many organizations in recent years: the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Diverse companies are responding to the digital leadership challenge in different and dynamic ways.

CIO 9

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. The most skilled innovators put resources behind their strongest pitches and hone them further after the hackathon ends.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Competition Leadership Retail' But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

Retail 11

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

We recently worked with apparel industry leaders from design, sourcing, manufacturing, and brand management to prototype a more innovative, responsive, and responsible supply chain. The workshop did not include a single PowerPoint slide or digital simulation.

Team 8

Team Supply Chain Workshop Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For every Apple, there is an Atari, for every Fuji a Polaroid, and for every Zara an American Apparel. Fast forward a few years, and lower growth means fewer interactions with new, demanding customer groups and less inspiration to innovate. 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”)

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Such ecosystems even the playing field for individuals and small firms to participate in technological progress, catalyzing both employment and innovation. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Back in the ‘90s, LEGO had cluttered its corporate structure with the complexity that comes with acquiring a variety of businesses from apparel to theme parks. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. In-N-Out Burger.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. Creativity from superconsumers from within provided the creative spark that launched a huge innovation. And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

It turns out that the word “innovation” is not a Harry Potter-esque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative, and entrepreneurial. It can be emblazoned on the door to a new innovation center in Silicon Valley. Yes, even Toys R Us had a head of innovation.).

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Budgeting Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

On the use side of the water issue, companies with products that depend on water in production (beverages) or in use (shampoo, apparel) are also seeing the writing on the wall and getting creative. Value chain and transparency partnerships growing: The apparel industry bands together. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. The same for an apparel business. Less was more. Yeah, less is more.

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump. days of innovation). Renewables Kept Growing and Getting Cheaper.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8