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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) and Musk’s approach works well when there is a lot of technological uncertainty (can we build it?). “I I think it’s very helpful to cross-fertilize ideas from different industries.”

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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

Strategy Driven

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” The case instructs students in the value of deconstructing an industry into its component parts.

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Solving the Looming Talent Shortage in the Energy Industry

Harvard Business Review

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. While the labor challenge is especially stark in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Selfless Leadership: Putting Our Cause First | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

About the Author Doug Moran has more than twenty-five years of leadership experience in a variety of industries. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology. Doug is the author of the forthcoming book, If You Will Lead : Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders.

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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. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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Should Higher Education Be Free?

Harvard Business Review

Since 1980, we''ve seen a 400% increase in the cost of higher education, after adjustment for inflation — a higher cost escalation than any other industry, even health care. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. Education Information & technology'

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.