Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past.

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IAM Productivity Products Company 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development." IT management Information & technology Technology' In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

I have used the social network for eight years and continue to be impressed with Mark Zuckerberg's focus on product and his vision for the internet. When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. But equity investing and product use are very different things.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Do you know why you make the products or offer the services you do? A case in point: The Prius has become such a strategic product that Toyota is in the process of turning it into a full sub-brand and a range of vehicles. So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology?

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

CEOs of these firms can emulate four best practices initiated by Carlos Ghosn at Renault-Nissan: 1) Create " good enough " products that deliver high value for money: Over-engineering products is no longer sustainable — both for economical and environmental reasons. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise. In 2004, three years before the iPhone, it rejected a proposal to develop a Nokia online applications store. The signs are there.

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Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. Let’s first consider the productivity of capital and labor. What economists call “total-factor productivity” (TFP) measures how much output has been raised from those inputs of units of capital and workers.

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GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

This acquisition was motivated by China’s increased demand for pork and Smithfield’s reputation for high-quality, safe products (especially important given recent food scares related to sick hogs and bird flu). Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand.

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Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 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. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. He was right there in the middle of it.

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Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. The biggest benefit from this trend is that you can incorporate more sophisticated control regimes into products. Growing Digital Business. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

HR Digest

AUGUST 31, 2023

After engaging in a long period of contact with employers, laborers, unions, as well as other involved parties, the department has organized 27 listening sessions with more than two thousand attendees in order to develop the suggested rule. From 2004 to 2019, the department’s regulations ensured that for U.S. territories.

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Proposal Technology Travel Efficiency 107

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. What about the automation of the production line? bribes and kickbacks). Just 6% are using AI in pricing.

Company 11

Company Survey Finance Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

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Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Research & development Financial management' It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

When it comes to launching new products, should your company be a pioneer or a follower? Product pioneers face more risk, but can reap big rewards when an innovation proves successful. Although technologically advanced, this did not prove profitable and Motorola had launched little else to compensate. Commitment. Incentives.

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Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The idea is as simple as this: why not have a mobile demonstration van for products, to take a fully-equipped, immersive selling experience to customers’ own sites? They’re envisioning well-designed, self-contained environments, tricked-out with the latest high-tech, high-touch technology.

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B2B B2C Education Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. technologies could be used on organizations' intranet and extranets". is too technological. Enterprise 2.0"

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

For example, many companies conduct frequent surveys asking customers how likely they are to recommend a product or company to friends or colleagues. When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I was impressed by the way he was treated there — like a human being, not a product in a factory — and by the staff's approach to delivering bad news. The bad news usually isn't one-dimensional; if a technology is out of date, the processes being used by the workforce are probably outdated too. Enlist a business ally.

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System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 12, 2012

The forces of internet transparency, rapid technology and young generations demanding empowerment are challenging organizations of all sizes across every industry to sail differently. In a change-friendly culture every part of the company is in this cycle (Accounting, HR, Customer Support, Product Development). Charles Darwin.

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Competitive Advantage Resistance Short-term Learning-by-Doing 244

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) To understand the strengths and weaknesses of different process religions, develop a network of people with experience in each one.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As Stever Robbins points in a brilliant 2004 article , email has shifted the costs of communication from the sender (who formerly had to go to the trouble of finding pen, paper and a stamp) to the recipient (who now has to spend time parsing all manner of ill-thought-out, hard-to-comprehend messages). Are you more productive for it?

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Shaw Cost Review Learning-by-Doing 15

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I can say this with confidence, because my decision to jump into Social Media headfirst back in 2005 has played an important role in my personal development as a leader -nearly as important as the direct leadership experience itself. Here are 9 ways Social Media has helped me, and can help you too: 1. All the best to you all, Terry Kevin W.

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Media Blog Learning-by-Doing Influence 306

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

So I see it as a mission when I talk to clients to find their CTM, what is your special, spicy, delicious sauce that you can add to your commodity chicken product or service? Chris: I first “met&# Darren in 2004 I think it was. How did this collaboration come about, and will you two be working again on anything else?

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Succession Media Mentor Blog 236

Eric Jacobson

JULY 7, 2011

iTunes debuted in 2003 and Tower Records closed in 2004 and Musicland folded in 2006. What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? Perhaps it won't be digital technology that will change or crush your business model. Amazon has almost single-handedly bankrupted Borders.

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Business Model Bottom-up Industry Focus Group 60

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In a recent Hamilton Project at Brookings report , we highlight what we believe are some of the most critical developments over the last few decades and consider what is necessary for the typical American to get a raise. Further, workers must receive a consistent share of those productivity gains, rather than seeing their share decline.

Policies 8

Policies Education Trends Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

From 1970 to 2004, the percentage of CEOs hired from outside the firm increased from 12% to 39%. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. Why do these shifts occur? Note the solution is not to avoid outside CEOs.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. It is currently at less than o.5% 5% of the federal budget. Adapting to change.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Failure to engage developers. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8