Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish. In today’s market you can buy anything from a single note to an entire portfolio of debt (both performing and non-performing) at deep discounts.

Real Estate 353

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 353

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. The draft rules would at last permit such commercial applications, with significant but not unmanageable restrictions. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.).

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

It also received its early stage finance from the U.S. government, which through DARPA and other initiatives stands out worldwide for its astoundingly positive track record in funding true innovation. government is often portrayed as providing a safeguard against market failure. In a business context, the U.S. Consider Apple.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The car service company just arranged low-cost financing to help add 100,000 cars to its fleet; revenues are growing by 20% monthly ; and New York Magazine proclaimed the company may be – one day – more valuable than Facebook. Great service and an innovative pricing strategy. Uber instead lets the market rule and drops prices.

Price 9

Price Transportation Discount Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Creative professionals do fare better when they’re given flexible schedules , meaningful work, and license to fail — but then, so do the rest of us. The good news is that the curiosity-driven creatives who come out of these programs can make excellent leaders, well-suited to the kinds of collaborative teams that spur innovation.

Management 8

Management Creativity Licensing Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk’s compensation plan, which will give him close to $56 billion in stock and awards if Tesla’s market cap reaches $650 billion, is designed to communicate a particular value proposition to Wall Street. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. The innovation portfolio. But to build toward its future state vision, and scale up its insurance business, the organization sought and won licenses in D.C.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Being a leader should not be viewed as a license to increase the volume of rhetoric. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

Tips 417

Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will! I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

Leadership 420

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. MirageC/Getty Images. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold. Such stakeholders generally expect a "social return" on capital.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. Big Law’s commanding market lead in specific practices areas is also being challenged by boutique firms. But that’s just not true.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A massive overhaul could start with labor market compensation practices. A smarter approach would be to treat those who care for children as professionals and to invest in the training and licensing requirements that would be needed to justify much higher rates of pay for those who care for our youngest citizens.

Policies 10

Policies Health Care Education Career 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). A well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy. As for distribution, “smart marketing” can turn faulty launch distribution planning into buzz-worthy spin and drive more sales. Go-To Market Strategy is, in essence, the launch. A great product. All of the above.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50