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Leveraging Silicon Valley — From Wherever You Are

Harvard Business Review

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

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The Cable Guys Need to Come up with a Better Argument

Harvard Business Review

Cable internet service goes out in snowstorms, too, and if the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index is to be believed, Americans are much happier with their energy providers (who score a respectable 76 on the index ) than their internet providers (a dismal 63 , absolute worst of the 43 industries tracked).

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Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • April 11, 2011 • Human Resources , Strategy • 0 Comments. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. EA says that would stifle innovation. Pick an industry on a growth curve. Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. December 2011.

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