BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. Companies in developed markets are struggling. Infrastructure construction companies continue to outperform.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Maximize engineering productivity. Run more experiments.

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BCG

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Article Thursday, December 08, 2016. Comparisons with industry peers no longer define customer expectations. Instead, digital leaders, such as Netflix, Apple, and Google, or new players, such as Oscar, Lemonade, and Wealthfront that aim to disrupt the industry, serve as reference points.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Feedback on social media can serve as a valuable source of information for companies, helping them to improve and develop products and services. At end of 2016, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky asked on Twitter what the company could launch in 2017. Anecdotes aside, does this user feedback actually help create better products?

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2016

Part of the decline is due to the oil industry collapse. The Wall Street Journal discusses the 2016 forecast in Will Business Spending and Profits Rebound This Year? with thousands of products from Scotch tape to smartphone materials, forecasts capital spending roughly unchanged from 2015. Signs of a Soft Rebound?

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. Product recommendations have been commonplace in most online shops such as Amazon for many years. Producers of consumer goods have been especially successful in developing and marketing new products using this approach.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

If anyone is anyone in retail, the annual coming together of industry bosses at Retail Week Live is a big date in your calendar. Sponsored by digital software developer Oracle, the glittering event took place in the Ballroom of the Grovesnor House Hotel on Park Lane as the champagne flowed and live bands headlined.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

According to Deloitte, 92% of the 26,000 blockchain-based projects created since 2016 are now dead. They created a product or service which solved a problem that no body cared enough about. Segway is a classic example of such a product. After building a functional product, the next step is to run a test pilot.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 18, 2017

She danced to requests and wittily answered customers’ questions on topics which ranged from product information and weather forecasts to their love life. Even marketing professionals nowadays might need to understand data analytics, SEO optimization or how to develop advanced algorithms.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack. Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. Indeed, current trends are moving away from broad offerings in many industries.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 11, 2018

The technology industry is booming: in 2008, Microsoft was the only tech firm ranked in the world’s top 10 public companies by market capitalisation. But no two tech companies are quite alike, and a reductive view of the technology industry belies the fundamental differences between today’s tech giants.

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BCG

JULY 11, 2016

Article Monday, July 11, 2016. Global regulators, still working to address the legacy of the 2008 financial crisis, are slowly beginning to converge on appropriate risk management approaches for the asset management industry.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

This article provides insights into the proven benefits of a servant leadership style for businesses and employees, the dimensions and characteristics that set servant leaders apart, and an example of servant leadership from a global leader in the business services and supplies industry. Productivity, wages, and intrinsic motivations.

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BCG

AUGUST 15, 2016

Focus Monday, August 15, 2016. Yet as elemental as dairy is, its industry environment is anything but basic. Yet as elemental as dairy is, its industry environment is anything but basic. Dairy may be a global industry, but it is also very much a regional one, with a highly fragmented supply. That’s no surprise.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 4, 2022

The complications stemming from a lack of stress resilience and capacity include increased turnover, decreased productivity, decreased customer satisfaction, and decreased performance at an organizational level. care from research, practice, policy and industry perspectives. Lysaght, R., Graham, I. & Oakley, P. Loehr, J., &

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2018

In my last post, I disaggregated the ‘tech’ industry into four clusters of business, based on a loose framework. voters ahead of the 2016 election. However: platforms selling services sometimes reshape the supply-side of an industry in ways not anticipated by regulation. Platforms selling hardware and software.

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BCG

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Focus Tuesday, December 06, 2016. New technologies are profoundly changing industrial production, giving rise to “the factory of the future.” Our research partner was the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering at RWTH Aachen University.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). Bainies in NYC work to support their clients on nearly every industry and across all ranges.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

An organization’s culture reflects the various lessons it has learned through its history and incorporates the many behaviors and processes that have developed over time. UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. It is comparable to breathing.

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BCG

JUNE 2, 2016

Focus Thursday, June 02, 2016. US consumer goods companies see a clear opportunity: Cuba’s economy is growing, yet its people still have very little exposure to consumer products and brands, so it remains one of the last true white-space markets on the planet. The first looked at Cuba’s overall macroeconomic development.

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BCG

JUNE 7, 2016

Focus Tuesday, June 07, 2016. He was one year into a large-scale transformation that was focused on growth through a shift into premium products. The company had invested millions of dollars to develop an innovative product that warranted higher prices. The early results had been promising: initial sales were strong.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

The development of this profession mostly began in the United States and a handful of countries in Europe. What’s more, even today, most of the industry activity is in North America and Europe. Despite that, the whole industry is still very large. That can only mean that the management consulting industry can grow as well.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2017

And they often lack much of the expertise needed to transform an idea into a viable product. While it’s still early days (we launched this accelerator in early 2016), we believe the accelerator has scored enough successes to prove that the model can work. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

What is our product or service expected to do? How it will impact business, industry, and society. Accidents, including deadly ones , caused by software or industrial robots can be traced to the early days of such technology, but they are not necessarily caused by the systems themselves. What happens if it fails to do so?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Instead, boards typically looked for expertise in their firms’ industry (51%), strategy (34%), and financials (30%).

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

The healthcare industry generates a large amount of data. Recently, Georgia Institute of Technology developed a machine learning algorithm capable of analyzing more data from a patient’s EHR than a physician would be able to. Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity. In: Kudyba S, editor. October 2012.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The investment industry is changing. Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. This is not just case-by-case evidence.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. For one thing, most industries just don’t have many new startups, period.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Today, we continue our series of book reviews with a look at Beyond the E-Myth, the latest in a long line of great books by Michael Gerber (a marketing genius who has built a world-wide web of products and services to help small businesses grow). Beyond the E-Myth releases December 7, 2016, so make sure to grab your copy!

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

On the other, the slowdown in productivity growth across advanced economies has led some economists to argue that new innovations have no impact on growth. These technologies increase productivity by making workers more skilled and efficient, and thus have the potential to yield both more economic growth and better jobs.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Meanwhile, plenty of other organic products, including vegetables, milk, and tea, have become widely consumed, at least by affluent, health-conscious city dwellers. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Now there was a plan in place.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2017

Moreover, Hidden Champions have also contributed to the sustainment of the German manufacturing base, and it is in large part thanks to them that nearly a quarter of the German gross domestic product continues to come from manufacturing. The percentage in most other highly industrialized countries such as the U.S. ,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As a company, we understood that our legacy extends beyond just the next few years—as we lead long-term value creation and positive societal impact within our industries, we build a legacy for the next century and beyond. Our network of global Green Teams took this to heart and made considerable strides in 2016 by diverting 2.4

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Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. In 2016, renewable, intermittent energy sources contributed more than 30% to gross electricity generation. In 2016, China installed 34 gigawatts (GW) of PV-panel-driven renewable power capacity. GW of new installations in 2016.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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