Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 25, 2016

Aude Le Carpentier is in charge of Innov’Up Creativity, in the Service-Mail-Parcel sector of La Poste. She’s a 27 year-old manager of a team of 15 creative people, helping business teams to develop innovative services. She kindly accepted to answer our questions on the story of Innov’Up.

Parcell 58

Parcell Company Creativity Innovation 58

Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain. However, for e-commerce businesses, shipping parcels to different locations safely and punctually requires complex planning. Inventory Planning Has Become Crucial.

Transportation 50

Transportation Parcell Supply Chain Management 50

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. Given Amazon success, wouldn’t you want to understand and develop the flywheel that runs your business?

Letter 90

Letter Collins Long-term Leadership Styles 90

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 16, 2008

The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. I put together a schematic to explain what they are doing.

Licensing 29

Licensing Parcell Newsletter Business Model 29

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

A series of breakthrough technologies and new business models are destroying the old rule that bigger is better. Around the same time, Chinese companies like Foxconn were developing less expensive approaches to manufacturing, and opening those facilities up to product designers across the globe. Innovation Technology'

Niche Marketing 18

Niche Marketing Parcell Business Model Education 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. Through my executive coaching work (and my own experience), I’ve developed a few conversation-centered techniques that help.

Parcell 15

Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. This has provided the platform to launch into other initiatives.

Innovation 12

Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Given the growing importance of data to every aspect of their business, they know they must develop an understanding of the costs of poor data quality, shortcomings in the methodology notwithstanding. First, develop a keen eye for non-value-added work. Of course, true leaders know this is no excuse. Customer billing is a great example.

Quality 15

Quality Parcell Cost Deming 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

They not only grow their current business but simultaneously develop the next one that, ultimately, will enable a graceful transition from the first. They ask themselves big, searching questions like: "What new trends and technologies could possibly undercut our current business?" "Are Are our new ideas big enough? Valuable enough?"

Parcell 14

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

And that is part and parcel of professional life. Case Study #1: Develop an understanding of your customer’s needs, and show empathic concern. Before he developed his pitch, Damian did his research. He talked to George’s colleagues to develop a deeper understanding of the CEO’s personal motivations.

Skills 22

Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation.

Company 14

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

These issues grow more important as companies try to pull more and more disparate data together — to develop predictive models using machine learning, for example. Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities.

Six Sigma 12

Six Sigma Long-term Supply Chain Definition 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. Research & development Financial management' So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Barratt Developments. United Parcel Service. Technology. Tesla Motor. Automotive. Alphabet (Google). Consumer Goods.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. As individuals and firms anticipate the new risks that climate change will unleash, this will create the aggregate market potential that rewards entrepreneurs who can design new technologies and products that help U.S.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. Taken together, this research points to the fact that most leaders just don’t get what their organizations are trying to do.

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. Some of these are old scores reignited by new protagonists armed with new weapons, but quite a few are new clashes.

Retail 8

Retail Technology Content Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8