Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2024

In recent years companies have removed college-degree requirements from many of their job postings. The authors of this article argue that it’s time to do more to make skills-based hiring a reality, and they present six ways that companies and hiring managers can do so.

Company 84

Company Management Resources 84

Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 14, 2024

Along the way I encountered a couple of very successful companies: Starbucks, where I met a potential partner, Apple, where I went to get some repairs done on my iPhone and Chik-Fil-A, which was down the hall from the Apple store. What does this say about the creation of a new product or company? Build a community.

Company 120

Company Technical Review Meeting Design 120

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2024

Research and analysis of today’s landscape identifies six key strategic concepts that set outperforming companies apart: Borrow someone’s road, partner with a third party, reveal your strategy, be good, let the competition go, and adopt small scale attacks.

Company 126

Company Analysis Competition Strategy 126

IdeaScale

JANUARY 7, 2024

In today's fast-paced business landscape, digital innovation has become a key driver for companies to stay ahead of the competition. From AI-powered automation to blockchain-based solutions, digital innovation companies are transforming industries across the board.

Company 130

Company Competition Innovation Industry 130

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 25, 2024

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken One of my favorite ways to measure a customer’s satisfaction level with a company or brand is by using the Net Promoter Score (NPS) question, which is, “On a scale of zero to 10, how likely are you to recommend this company to a friend or colleague?” If the customer […]

Company 105

Company 105

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many companies sit on piles of cash, even when rates of return suggest they shouldn’t. Researchers have pointed to multiple reasons, including flexibility for M&A and tax advantages. But new research suggests it’s also a form of insurance, especially for smaller firms.

Company 128

Company Management 128

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2024

But recent research at a food processing company in Colombia outlines some stumbling blocks companies might face when trying to change their structure. Specifically, the researchers and company CEO highlight a series of structural and people dynamics leaders should look out for in their own efforts.

Company 97

Company Agile Collaboration Change 97

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.

Company 270

Company Survey Innovation Trends 270

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.

Report 241

Report Company Survey Leadership 241

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 Software Industry Video 277

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

But what are early adopter companies really doing with Apple’s new hardware, and what do they hope to get out of these investments? Cosmetics, Hanifa, and the PGA Tour to understand these companies’ strategies. The piece examines efforts from Lowe’s, e.l.f.

Company 123

Company Competition Strategy Strategy 123

Innovation Excellence

MAY 24, 2024

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski You can look at people’s salaries as a cost that must be reduced. Or, you can look at their salaries as a way for them to provide for their families. With one, you cut, cut, cut. With the other, you pay the fairest wage possible and are thankful your people […]

Company 87

Company Leadership 87

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

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 Project Creativity Training 232

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2024

This article describes how the pilot, which focused on the company’s bitumen waterproofing systems, unfolded at Soprema. The company estimates a potential carbon footprint reduction of 34% from the project.

Company 82

Company Analysis Project Data 82

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2024

Companies that are struggling to find the right place to deploy new AI tech should consider use cases involving “voice of the customer” applications — parsing, interpreting, and responding to customer input from all different channels.

Generative AI 87

Generative AI Company Analysis Change 87

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Lack of speed has been troubling companies for decades. Slow-moving companies increasingly will find themselves fighting for relevance or, in some cases, pure survival — and leaders know it. Slow-moving companies increasingly will find themselves fighting for relevance or, in some cases, pure survival — and leaders know it.

Company 92

Company Competition Data Marketing 92

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2024

Global companies. It’s in companies’ best interest for them to continue to stay committed to LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms. In the U.S., a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced in State capitols in 2023. With governments and international blocs in retreat, where can LGBTQ+ employees turn to for support?

Company 80

Company 80

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The authors explore what can go wrong with autonomous agents, and how companies can deploy them responsibly. This evolution is exciting and promises to make our lives much easier — eliminating mundane tasks and helping us become more productive.

Company 109

Company Artificial Inteligence Learning Technology 109

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 108

Company Management Resources Design 108

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2024

But companies rarely use this same approach in the execution of their own growth strategy. The same due diligence skills and tools can be found in most large companies, but they are usually siloed in the corporate development team — the folks who handle M&A, who rarely have a chance to apply their expertise to a company’s ongoing operations.

Development Team Review 84

Development Team Review Company Strategy Strategy 84

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

DECEMBER 8, 2023

GE is well known as an “academy company” — a talent incubator that exports effective leaders to other organizations and even industries.

Company 110

Company Survey Training Culture 110

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.

Company 277

Company Creativity Software Review Innovation 277

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 104

Company Generative AI Case Study Study 104

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The EU’s forthcoming AI Act imposes requirements on companies designing and/or using AI in the European Union, and backs it up with stiff penalties. Companies need to analyze where they might fail to be compliant and then operationalize or implement the requisite steps to close the gaps in a way that reflects internal alignment.

Company 92

Company Design Management Artificial Inteligence 92

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 137

Company Agile Artificial Inteligence Innovation 137

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?

Company 211

Company Innovation Brainstorming Innovation Processes 211

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 101

Company Strategy Strategy Leadership 101

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 Change 221