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. All help to grow the business further.

Offshoring 105

Offshoring Engineering Cost Bottom-up 105

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

To address the concerns of the standard supply chain providers, assure them that once developed, the innovative product will be best served by an efficient supply chain, but while in the development stage, responsiveness is essential. Resistance from the Customer. The customers are in the drivers seat, no doubt about it.

Supply Chain 51

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. That’s the way to improve your time-to-market without compromising on product quality. You have to be quick on your feet and display problem-solving aptitude. Failure is its inevitable byproduct and you need to learn to embrace it.

Agility 33

Agility Planning Project Decentralization 33

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? 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. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

Agility 11

Agility Technology Development Content 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Continuous Development is a growing trend in the software industry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs should encourage R&D teams to move away from pursuing over-engineered "perfect products" — which today's thrifty customers find too expensive, hard to use, and eco-unfriendly — and focus instead on developing "good enough" solutions. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

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. And a much different roadmap developed, through many pizza-filled evenings, and some new demands requiring reallocation of resources.

CEO 18

CEO Engineering Consensus Review 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Instead, IBM opened the APIs to Watson (there are now about 35 of them, with more being created all the time) and allowed third parties to use them for cognitive service applications.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. 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 16

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Essilor undertook a project to develop photochromic lenses with partners PPG and Transitions Optical. 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 16

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 16

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. Develop personal, habitual agility. Develop team agility. So, take the initiative. I felt happier and more in control.

Bureaucracy 15

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 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 14

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 14

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. New ways of thinking about opportunities must be developed by the board as a team. Ask the right questions.

Innovation 15

Innovation Learning-by-Doing Execution Team 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. It is commonly believed that emerging market companies tap Western R&D talent in order to 'move up the value chain.'

Globalization 11

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 11

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. The firm has developed a sensing system that captures light hitting the camera from a variety of angles, not just what strikes a plane set behind a small aperture.

Contract Manufacturing 13

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 13

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. Right now, he’s releasing it only as a developers’ kit. “It Called Oculus Rift, it caused a sensation at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. WE’LL LEAVE THE LIGHTS ON FOR YOU.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Document Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts? Sports teams, of course, compete in physical time and space.

Team 11

Team Sports Franchising Conference 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Of course, software developers have long since figured out how to export data from one application to another. This is a special challenge when the original developer of the often homegrown legacy systems doesn’t have well-defined interfaces, documentation is scarce, and the software engineers are not available anymore.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Engineering System Efficiency 14

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. This is why I wanted to develop a system that could make accidental discoveries a more predictable and regular occurrence.

Software 10

Software Innovation Sharpe Efficiency 10

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. An organization would be far better off not having any stated values than to develop them only to misuse them. “Transparency” becomes a value when there’s been a cover up.

Bottom-up 14

Bottom-up Competitive Advantage Organization Company 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Read more from CA Technologies: Using AI and Machine Learning for Agile Development and Portfolio Management. 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.

Agility 8

Agility Metrics Technology Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs should encourage R&D teams to move away from pursuing over-engineered "perfect products" — which today's thrifty customers find too expensive, hard to use, and eco-unfriendly — and focus instead on developing "good enough" solutions. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." Our own research has further looked at the problem.

Technology 9

Technology CIO Agility Software 9

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This shift is being brought about by three developments. A recent Fast Company profile hints that Flyknit’s small footprint and low labor intensity could help Nike put more factories in more places, slashing time-to-market as well as import duties. Design Manufacturing Product development'

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Try HR Retrospectives.

Agility 8

Agility Software Incentives Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Requirements and specifications are more flexible and developed within cross functional teams with constantly evolving business needs. Service delivery is marked by a ''good enough'' approach to error tolerance, relying more on rapid iterations and short cycle times. They drive innovation and speed up time to market.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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. Development approaches. So maintaining quality is the key criteria and cannot be compromised. Selecting project managers.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 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. In that time, I have developed a simple framework that I call the “Hierarchy of Purpose.”

Project 8

Project How To Objective Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. Lean proposes a “test and measure” process of product development. But what is lost? Leverage A/B testing to compare variations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

One McKinsey study of 2,135 executives revealed that most corporate strategies “developed idiosyncratically to their organizations, people, and markets,” and don’t pass more than three out of 10 core tests for viable strategy. ” Underneath the pithy words is often the insidious intention to correct.

Mission Statement 8

Mission Statement Report McKinsey Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Everyone understood that being the flagship client for startups at this stage in their development would attract top startups and give BMW first access to cutting-edge technology, product customization advantages, time-to-market, and pricing, while reducing the risk profile of traditional corporate venturing.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 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

AUGUST 20, 2018

And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes were small — the famed “pivot.” Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, reduced time to market, and slashed the cost of development.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8