Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., Most companies have taken steps toward “digitization.”

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Plan: Plans need to be continually reviewed to keep the team on track Productivity (Measures & Accountability): assigning tasks, measuring success and rewarding results are an oft overlooked element of successful team development. Here are some of the highlights. the losers that were at the bottom of the heap).

Tips 34

Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. I do agree with your basic premise though.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon).

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Tencent and Alibaba, the two leading Chinese Internet companies, recently announced a collaboration with insurer Ping An to offer insurance products online. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K., Most companies have taken steps toward “digitization.”

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. However, once a venture identifies a successful business model and profit formula, the company should transition to executing a deliberate strategy. That was down from 9.7% in the previous quarter and from its blistering 11.9%

GDP 13

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. Both the U.K.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. In those days, incumbent companies were stuck in preweb ways of thinking.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

To meet these challenges, we believe academic medicine must embrace disruptive innovation in its core missions: educating the next generation of health professionals, offering comprehensive cutting-edge patient care, and leading biomedical and clinical research. Disruptive innovation Health Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Health Care Innovation Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Investors in publicly traded companies are understood to desire stable, predictable earnings and growth. The problems with public markets and quarter-by-quarter thinking are many, but for companies in fast-changing environments the biggest issue is that public markets are not patient — miss a quarter and the punishment can be severe.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

He believed that the most disruptive innovations don't occur inside a single domain, but at the intersection of multiple diverse domains (such as the arts and the sciences). AppHaus truly embodies SAP's frugal innovation philosophy. The India lab now ranks #1 in employee satisfaction within SAP's global network of 15 R&D labs.

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel. Soon, carriers everywhere — and, by 2011, all four national networks in the U.S.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Yet the struggles at the company are not new. As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. A more interesting development — one more pertinent to the challenges Toys “R” Us is facing — is the emergence of “shoppable showrooms.”

Retail 9

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. 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. New companies can be set up in hours, if not minutes. ” Sure, I would respond.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8