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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g., and we like to stick to our knitting.

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Keeping the Zeal of a Startup as You Scale

Harvard Business Review

They know that acquiring the benefits of scale requires ruthless focus on a well-defined core business and a commitment to building the systems and processes to support it. But they aren’t wedded to their business model—they are wedded to what will serve their customers best.

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A Platform Strategy Won’t Work Unless You’re Good at Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

Platform business models are booming—becoming bigger and more powerful than ever. At OpenMatters, we spend a lot of time studying network orchestration —business models where companies facilitate relationships and interactions, rather than serving up all the products, services, and pieces of content themselves.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. The Chief Entrepreneur will be responsible for managing a portfolio of entrepreneurs who experiment with new business models and value propositions. You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.”

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

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Procrastination Is Essential to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

According to the Journal of Management , NASA scientists and engineers found that performance increases as deadlines shorten, but when the deadlines became too short, performance declined. I've never published a book before, but I have incubated businesses. Research supports this. Dr. Ellen F. 2) Write my way through the launch.

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You Probably Can’t Tell the Difference Between a Bot and a Person

Harvard Business Review

Mostly by Arguing How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook Newsweek When the CEO of Sprig, a start-up focused on meal delivery, finally made it to the boardroom of the VC firm Greylock Partners to pitch his business model, everyone argued about it. The Comfort of Crowds Are Smartphone Users the Missing Link in Building Efficiency?