Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Maybe you’ve tried to bring the idea to life, only to have it turn out to be an expensive, time-consuming failure. The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market.

Uncertainty 214

Uncertainty Organization Christensen Tactics 214

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one.

Stage-Gate 128

Stage-Gate Products Productivity Innovation 128

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services.

Supply Chain 51

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

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. So the challenging, dissenting voice can, at times, be tied to leadership. The voice grew in clarity and volume.

CEO 18

CEO Engineering Consensus Review 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Still, that frustration is a natural part of agile innovation. Tetra Images/Getty Images.

Bureaucracy 16

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

For example, the idea that market share leadership leads to cost leadership which creates defensible advantage is a dynamic argument. 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.

McKinsey 15

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8