IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). However, the majority of these great 20th century companies failed to sustain their level of greatness in the Open-Source era.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Resources 57

IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). However, the majority of these great 20th century companies failed to sustain their level of greatness in the Open-Source era.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 57

IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). However, the majority of these great 20th century companies failed to sustain their level of greatness in the Open-Source era.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 57

Michael Roberto

JANUARY 4, 2017

Stoller, Amanda Goodall, and Agnes Baker have published an intriguing Harvard Business Review article titled, "Why the Best Hospitals are Managed by Doctors." Given the conventional wisdom, I took a look at the research. Goodall wrote a paper with Lawrence Kahn and Andrew Oswald about NBA coaches.

Technical Review 20

Technical Review Study Data Examples 20

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Conversely, a city with broad, straight avenues (which are efficient in terms of space management and easy to navigate) where one can see all the way to the horizon provides less security. This would show that the innovator has exercised due diligence in the work effort and possibly pre-empt any negative questions from the audience.

Innovation 98

Innovation Technical Review Software Review Creativity 98

Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. My previous post in the corporate venture capital (CVC) series provided a broad historical perspective on the sector. They come from different geographies: U.S. and Europe.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. My previous post in the corporate venture capital (CVC) series provided a broad historical perspective on the sector. They come from different geographies: U.S. and Europe.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. My previous post in the corporate venture capital (CVC) series provided a broad historical perspective on the sector. They come from different geographies: U.S. and Europe.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Business cases are, necessarily, usually focused on successful efforts, researched after the fact and written from a management perspective. Changes in technology, consumer behavior and the actions of your competitors make that a near certainty.

Strategy 53

Strategy Strategy Case Study Survey 53

Qmarkets

APRIL 8, 2021

Of course, not every idea was serious but many of them were highly technical and well-thought out, however it does not appear that either of them contributed to the eventual outcome. In the case of the BP oil crisis, they were forced to employ over 100 experts to review the 123,000 submissions that they received.

Crowdsourcing 52

Crowdsourcing Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review 52

Qmarkets

APRIL 8, 2021

Of course, not every idea was serious but many of them were highly technical and well-thought out, however it does not appear that either of them contributed to the eventual outcome. In the case of the BP oil crisis, they were forced to employ over 100 experts to review the 123,000 submissions that they received.

Crowdsourcing 52

Crowdsourcing Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review 52

Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

This early leader in financial technology launched in 1998 as Field Link, a company that developed encryption software for palm pilots. An investigation of the external market revealed that e-commerce, which was just an emerging technology at the time, lacked an easy way for customers to pay for online purchases. Read all parts 1-6.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Technology Groups 40

David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

In the book Charles Darwin described a natural selection process favoring individuals and species who, due to a lucky collection of redeeming features, were better suited to their environment than less fortunate peers. Being a product of a harsh yet practical Victorian upbringing Darwin aptly termed it: The survival of the fittest.

Company 40

Company Analysis Technical Review Roadmap 40

Adam Hartung

MAY 15, 2016

By November, 2004 the stock has risen to $90. As malls came along, Sears was again a pioneer “anchoring” many malls and obtaining lower cost space due to the company’s ability to draw in customers for other retailers. Media is under change, and that change is being created by technology. But he did not.

Trends 36

Trends Technical Review Innovation Leadership 36

David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

In the book Charles Darwin described a natural selection process favoring individuals and species who, due to a lucky collection of redeeming features, were better suited to their environment than less fortunate peers. Being a product of a harsh yet practical Victorian upbringing Darwin aptly termed it: The survival of the fittest.

Company 40

Company Analysis Technical Review Roadmap 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. Although technologically advanced, this did not prove profitable and Motorola had launched little else to compensate. Commitment.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Video Project Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? After 40 years of feminist-era dues paying, women's moment has come. Men on the job must feel besieged. Hear us roar.

Technical Review 17

Technical Review Study Report Learning 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. Do Tech Buyouts Actually Work? So will it work?

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Case Study Industry Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain.

Management 13

Management How To Strategy Strategy 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The better I get at filtering and managing my email, the more convinced I am that email overload may be an intractable problem. If you're getting 10 emails a day, that seems like a manageable volume. It is unacceptable to ignore (i.e. not respond to) an email that implicitly or explicitly asks for a response. What if it's 500?

Technical Review 17

Technical Review Tips Management Meeting 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management. Additionally, CIOs should review all prior presentations to the board and the CEO involving the systems in question.

System 15

System Technical Review Software Review Meeting 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Virtually everything except customer management and building the brand was left to partners.

Technical Review 9

Technical Review Marketing Technology LEAN 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown.

Artificial Inteligence 18

Artificial Inteligence Company Technical Review Survey 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In part 2, employees rated the best-of-the-best ideas and senior management committed to implement the top 35.

Collaboration 16

Collaboration LEAN Tools Brainstorming 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against.

Web Developers 18

Web Developers Web Development Marketing Product Development 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. Focus on the specific opportunity, and do the necessary research, due diligence, and soul-searching to figure out whether that particular job is right for you.

Technical Review 14

Technical Review Software Review How To Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

Software Review 14

Software Review Technical Review Marketing Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? Since that’s often the job of a consultant to begin with, should we be surprised?

Management 13

Management Leadership Training Course 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Study Disruption Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today. Previously a straggling and struggling conglomerate, it bravely focused 100% on mobile communications, was an early adopter and driver of 2G technology, and quickly became a recognised world leader in both supply chain management and brand-building.

Trends 18

Trends System Marketing Design 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Magazine profiles of very successful companies are endeavors of dubious value; they often manage to catch an organization just as it peaks and heads into decline, and the strengths they describe soon start looking more like liabilities. Nokia continued to grow, and dominate the global mobile-phone industry, for years.

Leadership 15

Leadership Company Groups Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Building on a relationship that dates back to 2004, Zurich Insurance Group is working with DXC to move from traditional data center outsourcing to a Platform as a Service model, taking advantage of next-generation cloud management technologies to lower operating costs and accelerate development.

Groups 8

Groups Technology Agile Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Software Review Technical Review 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Research & development Financial management'

Radical Innovation 14

Radical Innovation Comparison Innovation Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

That''s a big change from only five years ago, when UX wasn''t on anyone''s radar outside the tech world. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. Given Apple''s success, it is not surprising to see many executives following Jobs'' lead.

Leadership 14

Leadership Design Product Development LEAN 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges.

Company 8

Company Policies Marketing LEAN 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. One implication is that any project management method that is based on the assumption that requirements can be frozen has set itself up for failure — another good reason why agile might be here to stay. billion in revenues.

Technology 9

Technology Agile Software Developers Software Development 9