Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). ” What else needs to change?

Management 13

Management Software BPM Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. The VC industry has failed to innovate. LPs can certainly do a better job of paying VCs to act less like asset managers and more like investors. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return.

Venture Capitalist 19

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Incentives 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Wherever you start, it’s important to link the projects to a long-term digital platform strategy to avoid having disconnected islands of innovation. Many employees worry about the consequences of all of this technology on their roles.

Process 13

Process Company Supply Chain Software 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation.

Execution 12

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

The development and growth of your talent is vital to your ongoing success, ability to innovate, and overall productivity. For example, Millennials came of age using cell phones, computers, and video game consoles, so they expect to use these technologies to support their learning activities.

Development 8

Development Mentor Learning-by-Doing Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Apple’s Tim Cook spoke as well, saying “the time for inaction has passed,” and commenting that we don’t need to accept any “tradeoff between economy and environment — both are doable if you innovate and set the bar high enough.”. Polman and Branson are expected at these meetings now, but more leaders are joining.

IRR 8

IRR Energy Tips Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” Discover Real Innovations. When I worked on Wall Street, my professional circle was initially limited to other folks in the financial services sector: bankers, traders, analysts, economists.

Career 8

Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. The innovation consulting firm Innosight often refers to “$50 million in 5 years” as a reasonable target for a brand new business.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

P&L 15

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management. There are people very much steeped in this work, including you, who are out there managing stocks and other assets based on it.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Innovation 14

Innovation Products Productivity Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. China, China, and China.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And on the resource constraint front, Jeremy Grantham , co-founder of the asset management firm GMO ($100 billion invested), continued his relentless numbers-based assault on the fallacy of infinite resources. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10