Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Why did this happen? An easy explanation is myopia. It was so close.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition, Corporate Executive Board research shows that 40 percent of engaged employees are not aligning their behavior with organizational goals, The bottom line is that only one out of ten employees are both engaged and aligned with strategy. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge.

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Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Change is innovative. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. I’m the person who planted the ideas and strategy.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The problem was that Ballmer organized the company around execution of its current strengths, the Windows and Office businesses. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In turn, top executives should provide direction on improvement priorities down to front-line workers. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward. But this is rare.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

innovation, engagement, creativity, and fulfillment. And collaboration technologies like shared calendars too often create a chock-a-block schedule of meetings, many-sided conversations, and a tangled skein of emails, IMs, and tweets. So it goes with collaboration these days. No one works any longer, they collaborate. Sound extreme?

Energy 15

Energy Performance Review Creativity Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. ” Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits, and raise the dividend. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. And they use online social collaboration and communications tools.

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Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

The answer lies in the rise of a new type of executive, the Chief Customer Officer. A decade ago, the only option for an ambitious CI professional was the CMO's office, even though in most enterprises, that seat will be filled by an executive with brand and media expertise. Turning Customer Intelligence Into Innovation.

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Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve. Get the best advisers.

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Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. The technology was great. They executed on their plans well. The technology was remarkable and it could fit into your pocket. HP rise had been remarkable.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Look to see if our officials and executives are prepared for that. In the race for opportunity and influence in Africa, no competitor looms larger than China, which has increased its total trade with Africa twenty-fold since 2001. has the potential to create more skill, technology, and innovation in Africa than a Statist partner could.

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Comparison Policies Influence Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. All of it.".

Leadership 9

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 9

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. Once that metric is decided, the team is free to execute improvements with little interference.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

After all, we expect companies that were born digital to accomplish things that business executives could only dream of a generation ago. In search of a better solution, the airline turned to PASSUR Aerospace, a provider of decision-support technologies for the aviation industry. The technologies are new and in some cases exotic.

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Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). Several of the top positions in the merged Boeing were assigned to executives who had previously worked in St.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. How do they do it?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 Every single customer can trust us to encrypt all of their files with bank-grade technology before we back them up to our cloud servers. technology firms.

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Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.”

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The execution of these systems is, as you''d expect, very different. Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives.

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Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

It’s achieved impressive results since being founded in 2001, and is run by a committee of about ten people. They’ve had challenges in maintaining their structure as they’ve grown, but the remain one of the most innovative and most profitable firms in the world. Your main point of differentiation is innovation. Innovation'

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