Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Our longtime client Smule, a leading iPhone app company and frequent innovative marketer, came to us with a simple proposition: “We want a video that will do a million views and introduce our product to 13- to 17-year-old girls.” We parodied his new single the week it released and tweeted the video to his followers.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

The development of this attitude of flexibility, accepting that “the answers have changed,” would give an individual or organization a tremendous advantage over more rigid and inflexible competitors. According to the October 2013 Harvard Business Review, the major obstacles to business model innovation are fear and uncertainty.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

Despite a growing body of research into what comprises executive presence and how it’s developed, particularly for women and non-native English speaking professionals, it remains an inexact science with decidedly mixed advice. Or they can pursue an accelerated training approach, one requiring considerable feedback and clear development goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. So to better understand how Google innovates, I took a close look at what it’s doing in one area: Deep Learning, a devilishly complex form of artificial intelligence that helps machines to absorb and act on information much as humans do. Innovating the core.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. They’re independent businesspeople who are now marketing their sales and personal development services using my intellectual property, both online and in the classroom. On the achievement side of life, my four words are: ADVISOR – DIGITAL – POWER – TIME.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

More US bank branches closed in 2013 than ever before. Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”. The most innovative banks have learned to provide customers with just this kind of fusion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). We also looked beyond music for insights.

Business Model 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

When we began collecting data in 2013 to explore differences between startup acceleration in emerging markets and in high-income countries, we expected stark differences. Related Video. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. Think about consumers' jobs-to-be-done. Acknowledge implicit bias.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

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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. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. In our HBR article “Big Bang Disruption ”, we describe the devastation of arcade pinball machines wrought in only a few years by Sony’s PlayStation home video console.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

As access to high-speed internet and handheld devices increased, new features were gradually added to include photos and video data. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. The physician can upload or attach photos of rashes, x-rays, CT scans, or videos. Professional Development. Growing Participation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Samir Husni, Director of the Magazine Innovation Center, also points out that in recent years publishers have taken concepts from other media platforms, like All Recipes , HGTV , and Food Network , and turned them into successful print brands. Take web video, for example, which is booming. billion—a 12% margin—which is pretty good.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. As a result, the U.S. Despite the vast size of the U.S.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Thousands of very lucky individuals are seated in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center are at TED 2013. In the spirit of TED 2013, here are 10 amazing TED Talks that have helped me think differently about what business can be, how to be a better leader, and how to become a better global citizen. It's happening right now.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Across all kinds of platforms, individuals from nonprofit development staff to celebrities to CEOs helped spread this compelling idea. There is not a development team or nonprofit board in the world that wouldn’t perk up at that number. Encourage innovations on the theme. And most importantly, more giving took place.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. Highfive, a Silicon Valley–based video and web conferencing supplier, uses Quora to connect “with like-minded individuals.”

Marketing 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. Quite simply, desperation was the mother of innovation. What made this change possible? First, a sense of urgency.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." Utility, customization, and segmentation are key to the success of mobile marketing to women in the developing world.

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