Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. It’s even frequently been referred to as “the next Industrial Revolution.” Many of our customers just don’t use the technology available to them.

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Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? If an organization can’t get things done, nothing else matters – not the smartest strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even game-changing technology. OnPoint Consulting’s 2010 Execution Gap Maker Round-Up… Execution Gap Maker #1: BP (Need I say more?)

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Investors also did well: A $100 investment in Ruger in late 2010 was worth $443 in late 2015, while the equivalent investment in the S&P 500 yielded only $163 over that time frame. The symbolism is important though, showing that government and gun industry cooperation is possible. Would this investment increase gun sales?

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Licensing Drucker Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. Allow time and persevere. A core shift takes time for several reasons.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

And Gulati’s research, including interviews with 500 executives spanning industries and geographies, asserts that outside-in success is not confined to any one sector. The focus is on technological excellence with some diffuse understanding of customers who may buy the product. Join the conversation. With Ranjay Gulati.

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Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Businesses with dealings in China that either offend authorities or offer opportunities for industrial — or post-industrial — espionage have come under attack. Such cooperation, collaboration and coordination won't come for "free."

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. As the 2010 case describes: By his own admission, Ma was a fan of Jack Welch, so it was only natural that his organization came to resemble that of GE in some regards.

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