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.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After all, it was hardly a new technology; the first radial tire patents had been filed more than 40 years before. Almost none of their patents would be useful (the tire business was the second most research-intensive industry in the U.S after chemicals). Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. incumbents.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Technology Industry Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

New business models can hurt a company’s existing businesses; however, if they work, they can enhance overall performance. These new entrants often bring new business models, and thus measure performance differently than incumbents. Against which metrics are they building their businesses?

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. “Businesses have clustered into networks of various sorts throughout history,” writes the U.S.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

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.”

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). Now it's showing the way to new business models.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Put simply, Fleming didn’t have the requisite skills to engineer his discovery into a practical solution to the problem of disease. For any innovation to have an impact, there needs to be a discovery on an important insight; a viable, scalable solution; and, finally, a business model that allows the new idea to be adopted.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Competitive Advantage Chemicals 8