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Are You Recognizing Your People’s Best Ideas?

Great Leadership By Dan

The system, originally developed by a British officer and shared with Sims, required reworking some machinery around the weapon and retraining sailors on how to fire the weapon. Undaunted, Sims continued to send reports upward toward his superiors claiming the merits of his newly developed system. and then watched it die.

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Understand Your Entrepreneurial Superpower

Skip Prichard

The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. This discipline focuses founders on developing the necessary urgency to launch a winning product. Make sure they have a genuine interest in your market and learn key details about their successes. Rapidly shift your value proposition or target market.

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How the Internet of Things Changes Business Models

Harvard Business Review

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. Filling out well-known frameworks and streamlining established business models won’t be enough. Albert Shum , Partner Director of UX Design at Microsoft, notes: “Business models are about creating experiences of value.

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When Old Technologies Create New Industries

Harvard Business Review

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). failure to manage relations effectively with local business partners.

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Using M&A to Increase Your Capacity for Growth

Harvard Business Review

In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. of your market cap to about 25%—Pixar was about 10% of Disney.

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