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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

So one thing to emulate is to devote time peering into the future to understand: 1) key trends and how they will influence customer preferences, and 2) the emergence of new technologies and business models and how they will enable companies to deliver new value. 2010): 253-269. [6] 2] Cawthorne, Tesla vs Edison, pg. v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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The Media Industry is the Canary in the Coalmine

Harvard Business Review

In fact, I believe media is the proverbial canary in the coal mine for all sorts of industries due to a set of common trends that will, or are already, driving change across sectors. Those trends are: • Ubiquitous low-cost communications. I don't think anyone would debate the reality of these trends.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend. Quantifying the impressive rise of the middle class, FSG calculates private consumption in Peru is set to grow 54% between 2010 and 2015. The three main grocery retail chains in Peru grew from 57 stores in 2001 to 155 stores in 2010.

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Appointing a COO is a recent trend on the continent. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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Ten Years After Ford’s Spectacular Turnaround, What Alan Mulally Reveals About Brand-Inspired Cultural Revolution

Great Leadership By Dan

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. In 2010, Motor Trend named one of Ford’s newest cars, the Ford Fusion, “Car of the Year.”

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The Internet Has Been a Colossal Economic Disappointment

Harvard Business Review

Not only did it create the automotive industry, but Henry Ford shocked the industrial world when he doubled the pay of assembly line workers to $5 a day. million in 2010. Millennials are the harbingers of this new trend. Ford reasoned that a higher paid workforce would be able to buy more cars and thus would grow his business.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. Today, it is occurring at the level of ecosystems. The Internet of Things is a good example of this change.