Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. The proof is Cisco's own 2009 new product promise. Technology couldn't have been the issue.

Wireless 12

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 12

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In 2009 it was reimagined as an online shopping festival. At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. I N CHINA, near the turn of the century, Singles Day (11/11) was celebrated as a time for single people to meet. billion dollars.

Business Model 237

Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 237

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

At the height of the global financial crisis in 2009, the Global Pulse initiative (where I serve as director) was set up by the UN Secretary-General as an R&D lab to find out whether Big Data and real-time analytics could help make policymaking more agile and effective. The evidence is growing that it can.

Analysis 15

Analysis Globalization Crisis Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

The International Integrated Reporting Council is developing a common framework for companies to submit "integrated reports" on their financial, environmental, social, and governance performance. Develop a solid business case based on how social improvement will directly improve business performance. Make the Business Case.

System 8

System Merchandising Retail Class 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 was under way. This second transformation will be triggered not by regulation but by rapidly evolving technology. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

For example, Gillette has successfully encouraged consumers to trade up again and again by continually introducing razors with the latest and greatest shaving technology. As a lesser-known brand, simply getting a product on retailer shelves is a long, uphill battle.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Marketing Price Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. This popularity has enabled Heineken to raise admission prices by more than 60 percent since 2009 and increase retail sales per capita by 100 percent from 2009 to 2014.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Develop Creative Discontent. Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The book retail platform was not yet burning. The HBR article describes how B&N moved on multiple fronts at once: It aggressively reduced costs in its core retail business while refocusing its stores around consumer needs. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA How To Crisis Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. An influx of capital could also result in a revival in the formal retail sector (e.g.,

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

One of the oldest business models in the world is using new technology to trample traditional businesses, drive innovation, and create new and immense sources of value. Westfield Malls operates shopping malls that help retailers and shoppers to get together. Android, for example, is a platform for users, developers, and handset makers.

Participative 8

Participative Business Model IPO B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

At the height of the global financial crisis in 2009, the Global Pulse initiative (where I serve as director) was set up by the UN Secretary-General as an R&D lab to find out whether Big Data and real-time analytics could help make policymaking more agile and effective. The evidence is growing that it can.

Analysis 8

Analysis Globalization Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. Willingness to compromise.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported on Google’s algorithm that crunched data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories to determine which employees are most likely to quit, and more recently Google was lauded for pioneering the use of big data to predict employee turnover. Would they be delighted or disturbed?

Human Resources 9

Human Resources Information Technology Report Human Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Business by now has a well-developed playbook for dealing with such sustainability issues. While this measure fell to 19% in 2009, it has since recovered.) Shell Oil doesn’t sell cooking oil, but its Shell Foundation contributes to making cleaner, safer cook stoves available in the developing world. Take an Interest.

Golden Parachute 9

Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

How did your strategy around it develop? One of our first was back in 2009, and was about causes of death. And they range from employees and retirees to retail investors and thought leaders. Design Marketing Technology' An edited version of our conversation is below. What''s the history of data visualization at GE?

Storytelling 8

Storytelling Airlines White Paper Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every day, online retailers use computer-based transactions to guide us through stepwise sequences to buy a pair of jeans, apply for a credit card, or book a flight. Information technology has come late to health care delivery. Electronic medical records can help correct these systemic defects. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Building off US-inspired steel-based technology, we believe that it's possible to design, build, deliver, and erect affordable multi-tier tower housing, addressed squarely to lower class sections of the Indian demographic.

Suri 14

Suri Construction Class EBITDA 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Neither digital technology nor the corporation itself is necessarily to blame for the current predicament. In 2009, a study initiated by economic futurists at Deloitte’s Center for the Edge dubbed this “the Big Shift.” The cash does nothing but collect. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Setting such goals is important, of course, but you first need to develop trust. And the small win is the shortest way towards developing trust: it helps partners to learn about one another and develop informal rules of collaboration. They tend to focus instead on mobilizing their stakeholders around big, audacious goals.

Company 8

Company Construction Seminar Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Two developments bear noting. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. In 2009 Netflix needed high-quality content to grow its streaming business. Any candidate can communicate directly and instantly with millions of people.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9