Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. ” The case of healthcare technology firm athenahealth is an instructive one. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Startup activity can signal a city’s economic potential, but it’s actually the quality of the startups, not the quantity, that matters. A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. economy’s future prospects. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

But, human nature being what it is, people are more easily duped than they are taught to appreciate the attributes of quality and substance. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. I advised several technology companies during their gravy years. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. It was far easier to create the technology than to get the management agreement to use it across functions and country units.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI for "wireless telephone services" has declined every year since 2001; the same basket of wireless services in January 2011 cost consumers 12 percent less than what it cost in January 2001, and 40 percent less than what it cost in January 1998.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In search of a better solution, the airline turned to PASSUR Aerospace, a provider of decision-support technologies for the aviation industry. In 2001 PASSUR began offering its own arrival estimates as a service called RightETA. In search of a faster, cheaper way, Sears Holdings turned to the technologies and practices of big data.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. The goal was to make IBM more agile and able to predict — even prescribe — where IBM's markets would go.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In another example Innosight has researched, Xerox was forced to lay off nearly 40,000 of its 91,000 workers from 2000 to 2005 to return to profitability and make way for its transformation from a technology company into a services company. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Webvan promised to deliver the best quality groceries at the cheapest price by the click of a button. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. The rise and fall of Webvan illustrates the cost of an inflexible strategy. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. It is a constraint that should guide the level of depth and quality for an experiment before a real test.

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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). And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. At least not yet.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

In the early 1980s, for example, at least some partners — Bob Waterman, co-author of In Search of Excellence , among them — counseled gradual, quiet expansion, this to maintain the top-flight quality of the consultancy's people and its work. billion to $3.4

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