The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 2, 2022

This can be especially problematic as one could reasonably expect the second product launch to build on the lessons learned from the first one, often incorporating crucial feedback from the market. The researchers tracked over 300 entrepreneurs as they launched over 700 technology hardware projects on Kickstarter between 2010 and 2019.

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Entrepreneur Learning Curve Incubator Project 97

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you not familiar with the Cranky PM, she is “a fictional product management professional at a fictional enterprise software vendor named DysfunctoSoft.&# She blogs about what she calls “fictional stories&# of product management and product marketing professionals. She must understand what Batman feels like.

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Productivity Products Management Taylorism 124

Lead on Purpose

JULY 24, 2009

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation). Thanks for the comment!

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Quality Long-term Loyalty Compliance 141

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Monster is the most iconic of those that brought the service to market, and the first to do it at scale. Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Thanks for a wonderful 2010. Great professional achievements are tarnished against a backdrop of personal failure. You've helped me a great deal in this area Mike. Thanks for the great reminder. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. Often considered the “Mother of Cause Marketing”, Ms. Cause marketing, she said, was going in a new direction: Leveraging core competencies to make a positive difference in the community, on employees and the bottom line.

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Ryan PR Project B2B 130

Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Autodesk’s software and applications became must-have tools for designers and manufacturers alike, thanks to Bartz’s insistence that the company methodically roll out new features based on customer feedback. She has a tremendous task ahead to realign Yahoo’s products to the market.

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Strategy Stage-Gate Productivity Products 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Two categories of platform companies will support the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution: marketplaces and cloud-based small business software. In 2010, he was named one of Business Insider ‘s Silicon Valley 100 and in 2011, as one of BusinessWeek ’s 30 under 30 Best Tech Entrepreneurs. million employees—nearly half of those 1.5

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Bottom-up Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Software 76

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In practice, we find important differences. for BMW versus -2.7B

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

. “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” As venture capital investor Marc Andreesen pointed out, “software is eating the world.” ” Jeff Immelt, former CEO of General Electric. This may happen in two ways.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. or China should get the gold medal.

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Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The good news is that innovation abounds. What will be the most effective business model to scale up educational technology innovation?

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Education Innovation Stage-Gate Software 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Imagine you're in charge of software selection for your enterprise, and you're turning your attention to a specific IT challenge. It's a business-critical need requiring software that is capable of some heavy lifting. Do you consider open source software for the job? Data here reflect responses received in July-August 2010).

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Software Tips Survey Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

While the initial focus was on developed markets, Stanford BioDesign is now partnering with medical schools in India and Singapore, hoping that the same approach will result in affordable and easy-to-use medical devices for emerging markets. Some examples of reverse innovations with serious potential include: Public Health.

Innovation 11

Innovation How To Cost Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

In April 2010, V.R. Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. This belief led Ferose to overhaul SAP Labs India's hierarchical, 'top-heavy' corporate culture, allowing bottom-up creativity and innovation to blossom.

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Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands. Opportunity is on the rise in Africa.

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Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

"We're looking for new models of innovation. This candid admission comes from Beth Comstock, GE's Chief Marketing Officer. Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. Who can help new techs cross the valley?

Innovation 10

Innovation Kleiner Entrepreneur Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

We in the West tend to think of innovation as the next, new, shiny, tech, globally-accepted thing. But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., But innovators such as CashU have created safe gateways (e.g.,

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Innovation Govindarajan Globalization Uncertainty 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Implement and update the model Using analytical software such as SAS, build and implement the model.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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 illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. If regulators prevented industry leaders from buying up competitors, it would limit their market power and allow for more competition.

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Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. percentage points to productivity growth in the period 2010 to 2014. The Economy in 2018.

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Translation software? That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? I began Englishnization in 2010. points in October 2010 to 737.3

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. It was for the just-released IBM personal computers whose MS-DOS software was primitive and prone to data disasters. It's telling us that software as a service just blinked into being mainstream in 2010. The feature?

Early Adopters 14

Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. billion as compared to $4.4

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Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. Rogers’ classic Diffusion of Innovation Theory – buy products en masse after the “early adopters.” Ask yourself these questions first.

Productivity 9

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Cat Yu for HBR. This is Silicon Valley.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Conference Course 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." Consider how HP and Apple faced the changes in the PC market almost exactly a decade ago. •On

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Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. After all, even modest 6% growth at this point equates to more than $10 billion in new revenue.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco.

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14