IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 57

Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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Entrepreneurship Creativity Underperforming Technical Team Study 62

Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 9, 2020

“Companies that master the delicate balance between cutting costs to survive today and investing to grow tomorrow do well after a <downturn>” HBR 2010. Difficulties with speed to market. Recent discussions with industry players have underscored the issue of speed to market. Why is this distinction important?

Industry 40

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The Inovo Group

MAY 23, 2017

“This new mode of organization—a ‘network of teams’ with a high degree of empowerment, strong communication, and rapid information flow—is now sweeping businesses and governments around the world.” – Gen. Functions are partitioned into R&D, Marketing, Operations and other disciplines. Sense and sort signals – strong and weak.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Let’s take a look at how the British cycling team went from zero Tour de France victories and ninety-five years without any Olympic medal by 2003 to sixty-six Olympic or Paralympic gold medals and five Tour de France victories between 2007 and 2017 (Clear, 2018).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

The result — obsolete policies and practices, outdated assumptions and mind-sets, and underperforming products and services. As a result of this successful transformation, Infosys grew 25-fold over the decade from 2000 to 2010 — from $200 million to $5 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2015

. “Failing to realize someone is a terrific boss is a very costly mistake, perhaps even more costly than failing to realize someone is a bad boss,” he says. Read on for tips on how to discern between the good managers and the bad. In 2010, Joe Franzen was searching for a position as a software developer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

When the devastating earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010 , killing more than 250,000 and injuring countless more, donors and governments sent billions in aid and in-kind support. EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Powerful global forces—game-changing technologies, unprecedented growth in emerging markets, and rapidly aging populations, to name a few—are transforming the world economy, and with it, the way companies plan for and conduct business. So organizations need to transform their strategy development into an ongoing process.

Strategy 15

Strategy Strategy Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Because most of us are bad at dealing with conflict, we're also bad at fostering what must, in a successful business, come through conflict — whether overt or covert. Alignment is always behind a winning market situation. That's why there's little pushback on pricing, obsolescence, or disappointing developers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Inclusive growth has become the economic development mantra for both Indian politicians and CEOs in recent months. Recently, for instance, DuPont India's entire Indian leadership completed an immersion program in hinterland India with guidance from MART , a rural marketing consultancy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “ hire and develop the best ” and “insist on the highest standards.” Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!) Construct a prenup.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2014

One consultant virtually spelled out a formal specification: “Executives should not only have a high level of intellectual curiosity (staying current on market trends and changing dynamics in business), but also a personal sense of flexibility and adaptability.” The consequence is that they miss the weak signals of the market.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

The result — obsolete policies and practices, outdated assumptions and mind-sets, and underperforming products and services. As a result of this successful transformation, Infosys grew 25-fold over the decade from 2000 to 2010 — from $200 million to $5 billion.

Underperforming Technical Team 11

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. But the new Greek team consisted of an inexperienced and ambitious set of politicians and academics with little, if any, policy experience.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

” He told me he regularly said no — to more staff, to bigger marketing budgets, to additional equipment. Without a larger marketing budget, sales will drop. We haven’t developed skills in resourcefulness. I asked the CEO, whom I’ll call Mike, about the secret of his company’s rapid growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Indeed there is a good deal of evidence that using such individual incentives actually creates self-interest, lowers trust, results in poor teamwork, and diminishes commitment. Whole Foods Market’s purpose is to promote healthier eating.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It increased R&D spending from 7-8% of revenue before 2009 to 11-12% of revenue starting in 2010, and maximized the return on that increased investment. It has a more rigorous organization structure that divides responsibilities between the innovation team and development team, and strengthens management around the opportunity pipeline.

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Technology Underperforming Technical Team Innovation System 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions. The San Jose, Calif.-based

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Development Team Review Company Underperforming Technical Team Groups 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

” The case of John Shuttleworth and his team at BT Financial Group (BTFG) illustrates how this can work. John Shuttleworth, a member of BTFG’s Executive Management Team, is responsible for Platforms and Investments. The team sketched out user stories to frame the work (see below for an example). Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

With annual budgets and revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of employees structured into teams and hierarchies, and high stakes for performance, NFL teams have a lot riding on coaches’ and players’ decision making. Take conversions after touchdowns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

So, after a period of “internal transparency” during which only Utah personnel could see the data, Utah went public with all the ratings and comments – good, bad, and ugly. The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered. They came because we’re the Mayo Clinic.

Examples 14

Examples Management Underperforming Technical Team System 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

So, after a period of “internal transparency” during which only Utah personnel could see the data, Utah went public with all the ratings and comments – good, bad, and ugly. The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered. They came because we’re the Mayo Clinic.

Examples 14

Examples Management Underperforming Technical Team System 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. At the same time, the New York company launched a Silicon Valley start-up with a separate mission, management team, and business model while leveraging vital assets of the parent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. One of these young entrepreneurs in particular stood out.

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LEAN Company Underperforming Technical Team Project 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

But AMP’D underpriced its services and regularly extended credit to bad-risk customers. The management team at Rodan + Fields, today a $250 million skincare products company, understood this risk. Sales rose 300% in Georgia by the fall of 2010 and rose even more the following year. Nothing more than a tweak, they thought.

Strategy 10

Strategy Strategy Company Underperforming Technical Team 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Matthijs de Jong details in a fascinating 2010 paper on the subject , no dividends were paid for the first eight years of the company’s existence. They were supposed to get dividends, but it turned out to be quite unclear when they’d be paid or how big they’d be. In fact, as J. But it could just as well be the Dutch East India Company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million. Under the new ownership, Remenar retained his entire management team and was allowed decision-making authority from the new owners to implement an effective strategy to get the firm back on track. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Among the growing perplexed population is Mark Barnes (not his real name), vice president of a marketing company. Others feel weak ties to their identities of origin, but have very strong identities that can be labeled aspirational – being ecological activists, for example. Adherence to tribes is highly individualized.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. In 2010 the computer worm Stuxnet was discovered and implicated in the attack that caused physical damage to centrifuges at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. Train engineers to apply existing systems-engineering tools to security threats.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Real entrepreneurs don''t mind paying taxes, so develop a clear, right-sized and strictly enforced tax system. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road. Even better. Scale-up means growth, and growth means jobs, wealth, and tax revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. Clearly, these firms have found something that allows them to be resilient in both good times and bad.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

The best business decisions are never ones of strategy, sales, or marketing. I became the CEO of a manufacturing company in 2010 after a completing management buyout with some outside investors. By Patrick Mullane, Executive Director, HBX. At least not directly. They are always people decisions. Two in particular come to mind.

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with the concept of creative destruction , the intangible but daunting market force where an invention that is vital takes out that which has become defunct, and the nascent replaces the established. Can you imagine a good reason to continue two separate editorial teams?

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Underperforming Technical Team Creativity Technical Review Analysis 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. And as for us, we had a reputation for poor customer service and dated floorplans. We launched a Culture Committee to help address the specific, emergency needs of our team. Everyone in the industry felt the impact.

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