Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Advanced tools for creating and testing new products and the operations that will make them are all around us. They are not only changing the economics of innovation and operations, they are also pushing the frontier of what’s possible. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Operations 8

Operations Technology Engineering Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. For good reason, the $30-billion company has long been held up as a role model of how to manage innovation. our new vision" of growth and innovation. The new CEO is making sustainability, growth, and innovation a powerful trifecta. Note: I'd do both!).

Innovation 14

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. Improvement and Innovation. Pareto Chart.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business.

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues.

Succession 14

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

They are professional Predict, Plan & Execute (“PP&E”) machines, and as they have evolved over time, are carefully engineered to stamp out anything that induces uncertainty. Innovation is the number one topic on CEOs’ minds in various surveys. Many companies are creating chief innovation officers. That’s because you are!

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Innovation Operations Consultative 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Over the last 250 years, waves upon waves of scientific and engineering advances have brought about an accelerating rise in living standards that even the two deadliest wars in history could not reverse. Share buybacks are preferred to investment in innovation, entrepreneurship, and value creation.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. Roughly half of the world’s hundred largest economic engines are corporations, not governments.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. Consumer demand for innovative digital services, when executed ably, seems unquenchable; and that demand is stimulating capital flows.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Engineers at the company came down squarely on the side of analog. What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization. The Future of Operations. Could both technologies exist side by side? Insight Center.

Organization 8

Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. For more information, see the conference homepage. STEM-driven.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Gordon 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer argue that shared value encompasses corporate policies and practices that enhance the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously advancing social and economic conditions in the communities in which it operates. How can I — and capable partners from all sectors — actively solve the problem?

Porter 15

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Initially, we got the impression that gurus might have little in common other than a desire to get the HBR stamp of legitimacy conferred upon their latest notion. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” Some innovation leaders make Box 2 symbolic bets that send powerful ripples throughout their organizations.

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." And no sector is complete without its own conference.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Marketers constantly tell me that they''re the stewards of the brand and while that sounds good at marketing conferences, it won''t matter at all in a world where customers can have a real relationship with a company through the expanded experience of using its actual products and services. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

Insurance 8

Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). In my notes of the conference, I wrote down, simply, "Coase!". Operations Research Strategy' As for sudden, it did feel so to me. I haven''t actually seen Prof.

Cost 8

Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

At RoboBusiness this week, a conference devoted to the business and technology of robots, the revelation for me was not just how far robotic capabilities have come but also the range of problems robots are already helping to solve. Problem is: their professional setup costs $30,000 to assemble and a remote operator on a keyboard to run.

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing CEO Technology Conference 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Exposing people to a conference, a few speeches, or a bit of training isn’t enough to fuel scaling. Connect people and cascade excellence. Scaling starts and ends with individuals.

Case Study 11

Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the way we naturally gesture as we casually chat with colleagues, deliver presentations, or brainstorm with engineers. In what situations (one-on-ones, conferences, or team meetings) am I learning new and challenging things, according to the data? Apple Innovation Technology' Gesture-based productivity apps.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing Software 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Imagine a conference room of individuals drawn from the far corners of the globe to work in your company or to do business with you. Also, today, 30% of new hires are non-Japanese, and 50% of new engineers are non-Japanese. What do you do? Hire interpreters?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? It sounds like your conference offers a great message to those in need of hearing it.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. See also here , here , and here.) They also worked with the CIO to help them to understand the business.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. Innovation in Cities.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

Some are actual housework — getting the coffee for the morning stand-up, or cleaning up after a lunch meeting — and some are the unsung operational or administrative work that keeps the company rolling along. Procuring the conference room. Getting everyone on the conference line. We call them office housework.

Management 15

Management Committee Diversity Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Still, the essential concepts behind holacracy offer perhaps the best hope of easing top managers’ stranglehold on companies and, by extension, on innovation. For engineers familiar with the concept of distributed intelligence in systems, this is an easily understandable, even obvious, form of structure.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning models used in a popular search engine struggle to differentiate human images from those of gorillas , and show female searchers ads for lower paying jobs relative to male users. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. So how can we mitigate bias in machine learning? Adopting AI.

Sample 10

Sample Project Self-aware Training 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

They are the fuel in the engine of the networked world. Each can confer decisive advantage in the marketplace or the school room, the battlespace or the political race. Common Operating Pictures. Rapid Innovation/Move-to-Market Cycles. Don't stop at viral-by-design. Each is the new work of teams today. Precision Identity.

Team 14

Team Self-aware Media Download 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Like any creative process, any entrepreneur who wants to invent, innovate, or create must be willing to be imperfect and make mistakes in order to learn what works and what does not. Wendy Kopp started Teach for America, initially as a conference, on a shoestring budget after graduating from college. No potential buyer bit.

Film 8

Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

This perspective created the industrial economy lens through which most managers perceive their operations. Industrial age measures can''t evaluate Serendipity Economy results, leaving its outcomes like invention and innovation, process improvements, and new businesses relegated to the evidence of anecdote.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

These ventures are unified in their vision — really more of an obsessive quest — for a more sustainable and resilient future for humanity, executed through a mixture of brilliant engineering and out-of-the-box thinking. Hyde” side is a relatively straightforward problem.

Succession 14

Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. Architectural Innovation. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

You see both the innovation and the ethos of cool. But the real heroes are operating with automobiles and roads and whole systems of support without which they couldn’t be heroic. I saw Stewart Brand at a conference a couple months ago. I mean, has it led to technological innovation? That’s what you see in Google.

Information Technology 11

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 11