Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With dozens of other genetically engineered therapies moving through clinical trials, the long-promised era of personalized, gene-based medicine seemed to be at hand. New business models. Our research on major innovations finds that when disruption occurs, technologies don’t replace technologies; systems replace systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

In a recent article , we defined hybrids as combinations of competing elements or technical generations; for example, the Toyota Prius combines elements of internal combustion engines and electric cars. As my coauthor, Feng Zhu, and I note in our new HBR article , making that leap from product to platform can be treacherous.

Business Model 8

Business Model Software Mass Marketing Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

Women are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. But let’s go further on education. Obstacles and solutions to women’s success.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. Of course this depends on a company’s business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. An easy explanation is myopia. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

At a time when digital technology is transforming one industry after another, large companies tend to view innovation and disruption as the result of breakthrough discoveries or technological wonders. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. The business model WhatsApp has today is essentially the one it started with.

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Technology Productivity Products Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

They argue that we cannot cooperate with each other to solve our major problems because our institutions and businesses are saturated with a competitive spirit. But Lieberman and Fry have some good news: modern technology can address the root of the problem. Thus, a post-scarcity world, premised on cooperation, would emerge.

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Technology Cooper Efficiency Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

These are just some of the many ways technology is transforming the demand and supply of resources. Historically, the resources sector followed a dig-and-deliver model, where success was mainly about the size and quality of assets. Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories.

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Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

For example, digital technology company Omada Health helps individuals lose weight and prevent diabetes through online behavioral counseling. Iora Health attacks unnecessary care by pairing technology-powered patient analytics with high-touch, team-based care at its network of primary-care clinics. Insight Center.

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Health Care Engineering Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. This evolution to “Internet of Things (IoT) 2.0”

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Technology B2B B2C Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings. It would position Lumiscape’s technology platform for growth as the smart-cities movement showed signs of taking off. But not here , he thought.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. The legend goes that Frank’s father had given him an expensive remote-controlled model helicopter for doing well in school. China has grown its local pool of engineers and MBAs by investing in universities.

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Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

They realize that the old ways of doing business will no longer work. They seek to better themselves as professionals and to rethink the business models. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Changing times require new perspectives.

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Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 71

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. As the head of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

The name itself describes the business model. As a group, we saw the need to fully embrace technology in a way that would easily allow skilled volunteers to transfer their knowledge to our partners in Africa. Embrace technology. Technology is allowing us to successfully partner remotely from 8,000 miles away.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? Or what if — as is the case today — current chip technology is nearing its theoretical limits , and a completely new architecture needs to be dreamed up? Basic research. Pathbreaking innovations never arrive fully formed. .”

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Open-book 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Agile and Lean initially grew popular in the startup world, but soon were embraced by mainstream business leaders around the globe. ” Today, leading companies are embracing a new business process methodology. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

An HBR contributor, he wrote two seminal articles about Shell and scenario planning in 1985. Having led the early scenario planning work at Kodak, I remember when it sunk in that the digital wave had already hit and the business model would soon need rapid reinvention. This is as important today as it was in Wack’s era.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 9

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. Technology. But, he says , ultimately “technology is a resource-liberating force.”

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Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In just a few years digital technology has connected an ever-growing number of people, sensors, and devices. It’s created new business and social networks, resulted in new ecosystems, and transformed our economy. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

The term “digital firms” refers to those companies that from their inception have focused on digital services enabled by the internet and related technologies, including mobile. ill-fated attempts to impose global business models unsuited to the Chinese market. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Not only do lifelong learners make the best employees for us, but we also perform better as a business when our clients are lifelong learners. Your corporate values should also align with your business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

As one of us (Bala) argued in an earlier article , the time is ripe for corporations to shift their attention from internal to external information exchanges. The API is the core engine driving this strategy. There are two main business benefits to offering an API: APIs can attract blockbuster complements. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Here’s a look at a tiny, tiny slice of it: Those are a couple of dozen air quality sensors located around Boston, as documented by Thingful , a search engine for publicly available Internet of Things things (including sharks !). We’ve suggested that the Internet of Things can change business models.

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Gordon Porter Information Technology Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

AI is fundamentally a prediction technology. Right now, Amazon’s business model is shopping-then-shipping. Most shoppers have noticed Amazon’s recommendation engine while they shop — it offers suggestions of items that their AI predicts you will want to buy. How will AI change strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. This model made sense for a few reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. was designed to protect the company’s earlier K-Cup technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Today, the list of disruptive new entrants is expanding and the primary differentiator is clear: they bring new mental models to existing industries and create new business models that customers and investors love. ” In order to get there, he plans to “evolve our business model accordingly.”

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Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s been almost 10 years since HBR published John Kotter’s classic article,” Why Transformation Efforts Fail.” For example, when a large technology firm integrated specialized engineers into its regional sales teams, there were shifts in roles, client coverage, compensation, goal setting, and teamwork.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. To the average user, search engines feel interchangeable.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This means significant growth potential for multinationals who have core competencies in high-tech infrastructure solutions such as jet engines, turbines, CT scanners, and satellite communications. It’s true that India’s ferociously challenging business environment poses challenges for all companies in the consumer economy.

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