Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Companies should enable their explorers, build platforms instead of buying products, and prioritize for impact. There are three drivers of AI scale: community, commonality, and coordination.

Company 102

Company Competition Tools Artificial Inteligence 102

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In turbulent times, companies need a reliable anchor to guide decision-making. Second, treat purpose as an organizing principle that guides company structure, strategy, and culture. Three strategies can help. First, tell a big story about what your organization believes in and what it is trying to accomplish.

Company 85

Company Leadership Culture Strategy 85

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

SMEs do not have the same regulatory pressures that can lead larger companies to measure and mitigate their risks, but they also have fewer buffer resources to resist unexpected shocks. They are one large potential incident away from bankruptcy.

Company 130

Company Management Resources Design 130

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As they strive to make their supply chains more resilient, global companies are grappling with two challenges: the difficulty in discerning potential sources and the extended time required to find, vet, and onboard new suppliers.

Disruption 109

Disruption Company Tools Engagement 109

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To fix that, companies should write core values that stand apart, using literary techniques (such as alliteration or rhyme), short and simple phrases, or unusual words that will stick in employees’ memories. Too many statements of corporate values are generic business cliches. Is it any wonder few employees can actually remember them?

Company 120

Company How To Culture Management 120

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Companies are struggling with where to start with generative AI. They call it WINS Work — the places where tasks, functions, possibly your entire company or industry — are dependent on the manipulation and interpretation of Words, Images, Numbers, and Sounds (WINS).

Company 126

Company Case Study Study Technology 126

Business and Tech

AUGUST 6, 2021

And with the advent of the pandemic, the perfect storm came together as companies rapidly transitioned to a fully remote work environment and enabled their employees to connect to the corporate network from home. Many companies that used VPNs and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) struggled to secure their networks.

Company 241

Company Policies Technology System 241

Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski There are many types of companies, and it can be difficult to categorize them. And even within the company itself, there is disagreement about the company’s character. And one of the main sources of disagreement is born from our desire to classify our company as the type we want it […]

Company 102

Company Strategy Strategy Leadership 102

PlanBox Innovation

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In partnership with a major pharmaceutical company, they used Planbox to facilitate confidential, collaborative clinical trials. The post Six Companies Thankful for their Innovation Results appeared first on Planbox. This led to substantial operational improvements and set new benchmarks for innovation in clinical research.

Innovation 86

Innovation Company Culture of Innovation Innovation Programs 86

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Companies can rescue qualitative survey data from the trash and dig for deeper insights. GenAI can transform the process of collecting feedback from consumers, reaching more people across more demographics than ever before, and learning more about what they really think.

Company 106

Company Survey Data Meeting 106

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Over the past 30 years they’ve invented a new way of running companies, what author Andrew McAfee calls the “Geek Way.” Companies that resist this recipe risk being left behind. Silicon Valley firms don’t just create technology.

Company 87

Company Change Technology Agile 87

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Remote-work-readiness is an important form of flexibility that companies need to consider. Extreme weather events are harder on companies that aren’t able or prepared to work from home. The Covid-19 pandemic made this clear, but research shows that it is true of other forms of unexpected disruptions, too.

Company 100

Company Disruption Change Management 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

3) Encourage “purpose integration” by tailoring roles that align individual and company aims. By personalizing purpose, businesses can boost productivity and job satisfaction, benefiting both the company and its employees. 2) Promote “purpose sharing” to enhance collaboration and find mutual goals.

Company 89

Company Collaboration 89

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you call it propaganda or greenwashing, companies have long used marketing to tout the good they do for the environment while obfuscating any negative externalities of their businesses.

Company 99

Company Groups Marketing Industry 99

Business and Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

COVID-19 has revolutionized the way most people live and work, leading to a stark shift in how companies perceive and support employee mental health. Even if a company did increase mental health support, our research indicates it may be temporary. This article has been paid for by Modern Health.

Company 241

Company Report Survey Leadership 241

IdeaScale

APRIL 16, 2020

According to a recent survey , company leaders who responded predicted a 20 to 30 percent drop in sales. COVID-19 is forcing companies to become more flexible by meeting demands that are unrelated to their business models. Companies are leveraging digital platforms to revitalize certain areas of business. Increase Flexibility.

Innovation 270

Innovation Company Innovation Management Survey 270

Idea to Value

MARCH 29, 2021

It turns out that in order to keep consumers buying products year after year, some companies are actually deliberately reducing the quality of their products. In some especially nefarious situations, these companies may be updating their products through software even after you bought them, in order to make the performance worse.

Company 277

Company Innovation Software Industry 277

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2023

Companies are integrating AI into their operations so quickly that job losses are likely to mount before the gains arrive. Adopting a bias for boldness and a startup mentality will help companies find the agility to make the most of this moment, and protect jobs as a result.

Company 140

Company Agile Innovation Artificial Inteligence 140

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To find and make the most of this talent, companies need to be good at five disciplines: strategic hiring, zero tolerance for people who violate their ethics, a focus on potential, alignment of HR processes, and values-based succession at the top.

Company 104

Company Culture Management 104

Business and Tech

AUGUST 6, 2021

And with the advent of the pandemic, the perfect storm came together as companies rapidly transitioned to a fully remote work environment and enabled their employees to connect to the corporate network from home. Many companies that used VPNs and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) struggled to secure their networks.

Company 173

Company Policies System Technology 173

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Analyzing data from 515 companies in 35 countries, the authors found that apex firms, especially those sharing a brand with affiliates, engaged less in sustainability initiatives than their lower-tier counterparts. Recent research reveals a troubling trend: apex firms in Business Groups often promote sustainability without substantial action.

Company 107

Company Trends Groups Engagement 107

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

After a company petitions for bankruptcy, its attention often shifts toward debt providers (e.g., banks) and away from suppliers — unsecured creditors who are not viewed as a primary provider of corporate debt. New research cautions against such shift in attention.

Company 73

Company Management 73

Idea to Value

MARCH 31, 2020

We speak about what it takes to create an invincible company, with a particular emphasis on the importance of a balanced innovation portfolio. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:30 – How the Business Model Canvas (BMC) was created 20 years ago, to help companies innovate. The Invincible company: [link].

Company 232

Company Innovation Creativity Project 232

IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Company culture is more than just a mission, vision, and value statement. Culture is the glue that holds the company together and keeps it strong. It's a set of shared values, beliefs, and expectations that serve as guiding principles for everyone in an organization.

Culture 130

Culture Company How To Engagement 130

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Companies like Slack and Dropbox have pioneered the use of Product-Led Growth (PLG). But it can create challenges for growing companies. Eventually, even the best PLG company will need an enterprise sales strategy which takes years to develop. PLG works, at least at first. The answer isn’t to reject PLG.

Company 113

Company Software Strategy Strategy 113

Idea to Value

JUNE 8, 2022

This can teach us much about why companies and teams slow down as they grow larger. This shows one of the problems which companies have staying efficient as they grow. In fact, often the entire company can sit in a single meeting together and then be productive for the rest of the day.

Company 221

Company Meeting Collaboration Innovation 221

Idea to Value

MARCH 26, 2020

However, some companies and creative individuals have already come up with innovative solutions to the problem. This required the following companies to completely reinterpret what their companies were able to manufacture, and change this over at a rapid pace, requiring a huge deal of innovative thinking.

Innovation 277

Innovation Creativity Company Software Review 277

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Companies are trying various strategies to adjust to a “new normal” in work modalities, ranging from fully in-office to fully remote to a mix of both. With these insights, organizations are encouraged to recognize, understand, and strategically address these personas to foster a harmonious and productive workplace.

Company 104

Company Strategy Strategy Study 104

IdeaScale

JANUARY 23, 2020

Innovation is a broad term: what’s innovative to a software company will differ from what governments need. That was particularly evident with companies that had built phones with physical keyboards. Other companies saw the iPhone, knew they had to respond… and were completely at a loss as to how. The result?

Innovation 211

Innovation Company Innovation Processes Brainstorming 211

Idea to Value

AUGUST 26, 2020

This video is quite interesting, if you’re interested in how quickly a small company can innovate. It is about how a small raincoat production company was asked to produce COVID-19 protective gowns by the Japanese government, but was struggling to meet targets of 10,000 gowns a day.

Company 278

Company LEAN Innovation Video 278