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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Recently, in New York, we participated in a panel discussion organized by the Asia Society called " Jugaad Innovation: Reigniting American Ingenuity " (you can watch a video here ). And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning.

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Why Nordstrom’s Digital Strategy Works (and Yours Probably Doesn’t)

Harvard Business Review

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?

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Why Nokia's Collapse Should Scare Apple

Harvard Business Review

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. 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.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. Fostering innovation.

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Three Strategy Lessons From the Latest Round of Xbox vs. PlayStation

Harvard Business Review

The easiest way to understand Sony’s position with the PS4 is to review the mistakes it made last time around, beginning with its price. The Xbox 360 had the advantage of beating the other two consoles to market by a year, while the Wii introduced a novel motion-sensing wireless controller that allowed for significant innovation in gameplay.

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The Dell Deal Explained: What a Successful Turnaround Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. Their aim was to determine if the companies in question became more or less innovative following the buyout. By the mid 2000s, much of Dell''s competition had faded. The Case of IBM.

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