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Why Innovations Sit On The Shelf: Innovation is the key to a company’s success. However, most companies restrain from the idea due to the adverse implications it would have on the organizational work. The most effective way to apply innovation techniques in the organization is to encourage open and honest conversation between the employees and the...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, technique; White papers 2004-07-19
Four Ways To Innovate In Operations: From the executive summary: ‘Operational innovation should not be confused with operational improvement or operational excellence. Those terms refer to achieving high performance via existing modes of operation: ensuring that work is done as it ought to be to reduce errors, costs, and delays but without fundamentally changing how that...; Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Harvard Knowledgebase, innovation, high-performance, customer service; White papers 2004-05-10
A Clear Eye For Innovation: From the executive summary: ‘Today’s dynamic business scenario requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently to exploit existing capabilities. However, few companies do it well. Most successful enterprises are adept at refining their current offerings, but they falter when it comes to pioneering radically new products...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, strategy; White papers 2004-04-26
Got A New Strategy? Now Make It Happen: From the executive summary: ‘Despite widespread rhetoric about the need for organizational agility, an astonishing number of businesses stay stuck in neutral when they need to implement a new strategy’. The paper outlines a procedure to overcome hindrances encountered while implementing new strategies in an organization.; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, strategy; White papers 2004-02-09
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation: Innovation refers to the application of creative ideas to organizational processes and products and come up with cutting-edge products and efficient processes. Innovation is an effective tool to gain sustainable competitive advantage. The paper argues that innovation is not only the domain of developed-world companies and many developing-world companies are...; Tags: Strategy, Harvard Knowledgebase, competitive advantage, tool; White papers 2004-01-26

Creative Recombination: Use What You Have: From the executive summary: ‘Every time a firm pursues an existing or new strategy by reusing, redeploying, or recombining aspects of its people, networks, culture, structures, or processes, rather than destroying them and recreating them from scratch. Thus, instead of downsizing, it is essential to redeploy the people's talents. Rather...; Tags: Workforce management, NETWORKING, Harvard Knowledgebase, downsizing, knowledge, computer network, social networking, talent, network, strategy, computer; White papers 2004-01-26
Your New Core Strategy: Employee Retention: The emerging trend of switching jobs has become widely prevalent in corporate world. It has been observed that employees are changing jobs like dumping old clothes and wearing new ones. The process has put the position of many companies in jeopardy. Most organizations are finding difficulty in finding an appropriate...; Tags: Professional development, Recruitment & Selection, Harvard Knowledgebase, career development, job, career, strategy; White papers 2003-11-26
The Politics of Innovation: The Article describes what FDA is doing to bridge the gap between the high cost of innovation and patients’ demand for lower prices. It emphasizes that government plays a critical role in improving the pathway between scientific breakthroughs and bringing affordable drugs to patients. It is not surprising that there...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, patient, public health; White papers 2003-11-17
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences: Ten years ago, globalization seemed unstoppable. Today, the picture looks very different. In many if not most cases, companies see globalization as a matter of taking a superior by assumption business model and extending it geographically, with necessary modifications, to maximize the firm's economies of scale. From this perspective, the...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, globalization, business model, strategy; White papers 2003-11-10
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption: This article is a case study about two companies. It was seen that Teradyne was successful. Hewlett-Packard was not. The paper writes about how two companies had such different results with disruptive innovation. In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause...; Tags: Leadership, Performance management, Harvard Knowledgebase, Teradyne Inc., innovation, Hewlett-Packard Co., performance; Case studies 2003-09-15
Project Planning: Fuzziness = Failure: Project management used to be about driving out uncertainty. With today's projects, however --whether they involve new product development, IT installation, civil engineering, or internal process improvement -- much of the uncertainty surrounding information management simply can't be eliminated. Studies of exceptional project managers in fast time-to-market industries show that...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Harvard Knowledgebase, project management, New Product Development, process improvement, information management, information technology, industry; White papers 2003-08-18
nailed down: Project management used to be about driving out uncertainty. Project Manager all the deliverables right at the outset, thought through issues around scale, sequence, and size, and fine-tuned so that the implementation could be as routine as possible. Business today is all about completing projects faster, cheaper,...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Harvard Knowledgebase, project management; White papers 2003-08-18
Milking More From The Mature Business: From the executive summary: ‘Organizations can boost growth by analyzing and leveraging existing portfolios, services, and markets. The need is to focus on what is going on in the business units. Corporate strategy can guide acquisitions, divestitures, and market and product development efforts outside the scope of individual business units....; Tags: Corporate law, Harvard Knowledgebase, divestiture, product development, acquisition, strategy; White papers 2003-07-21
4+2 = Sustained Business Success: From the executive summary: ‘Researches indicate that most of the management tools and techniques do not have any direct implications on the superior business performance. However, what really matters is having a strong grasp of the business basics. Without exception, companies that outperformed the industry peers excelled at four primary...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, management practice, talent, merger, partnership, leadership, technique, strategy, industry; White papers 2003-07-07
Envisioning Growth: Life without a goal is useless. Even a millionaire strives to become a billionaire, and a poor person strives to become rich. The most common thing in the two cases is that both rich and poor have a vision in their eyes and hope in their heart. However, the parameter...; Tags: Strategy, Harvard Knowledgebase, vision; White papers 2003-05-01
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?: In modern business scenario, innovation has become a key factor in ensuring success for an organization. It provides the organization with plentiful avenues to come out with revolutionary products and services and serve the customers in a better way. Today, organizations should be very clear about their customer’s needs and...; Tags: Leadership, Harvard Knowledgebase, innovation; White papers 2003-04-21
Reducing Risk By Managing Chunks: From the executive summary: ‘Breaking projects into smaller, more manageable chunks reduces the risk of failure and allows companies to better align their project portfolios with corporate strategies. The risk is reduced because the projects become smaller, less complex, and more manageable.’ The paper outlines ways to reduce the ensuing...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, risk, strategy; White papers 2003-04-01
Six Keys To Building New Markets By Unleashing Disruptive Innovation: Managers today have a problem. They know their companies must grow. But growth is hard, especially given today's economic environment where investment capital is difficult to come by and firms are reluctant to take risks. Managers know innovation is the ticket to successful growth. But they just can't seem to...; Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Harvard Knowledgebase, innovation, theory, environment; White papers 2003-01-01
Business Interruption Exposures: The provisions and costs of Employee Benefit programs should be clearly and frequently communicated to employees. Multinational organizations should step up to their international risk management responsibilities. Insurance policy provisions should be uniform as to named insured, notice and cancellation clauses, territory, etc. All communication providing or requesting information should...; Tags: Financial Planning, Harvard Knowledgebase, employee benefit, risk management, insurance; White papers 2003-01-01
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense: Business leaders must respond to growing concerns about pollution, but both the environment and corporate coffers can be green. In a recent reunion session for alumni, Harvard Business School professor outlined how environmentally-minded company policies can make good strategic sense for business. The article reviews some strategies for a green...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, pollution, strategy, environment; White papers 2002-07-15