CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

Many business analysts attribute a great deal of Virgins success to the innovative leadership style of its chairman, Sir Richard Branson, who has demonstrated a marked ability to inspire his people to innovate and grow. Charismatic A charismatic leader relies on personal charm to lead and inspire.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Provide “Worthless” Rewards.

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CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Each business model calls for different cultures and different reasons for these behaviors. That is a grand statement – now they likely were caught up in the moment of participation and yet it talks to the level of motivation an employee feels when participating.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

But because most providers’ business models still depend on fee-for-service revenues, reducing volume (and increasing value) cuts into short-term profits. How, then, are innovative providers redesigning care so that, despite financial pain in the short term, they achieve long-range success? nationally. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.” Uber doesn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Over the last 20 years, digital design and collaboration tools have fundamentally altered how firms approach innovation. The good news, of course, is that this expanded landscape creates an opportunity-rich environment for firms to innovate. The venture mode expands the flexibility and speed with which innovators act.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. In most cases we’ve studied at Innovation Leader, an online resource for people responsible for innovation and R&D, there’s a surplus of good ideas for new products, services and business models. So how to improve?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here's how leaders unintentionally limit their innovation efforts. The operative issue is whether a company participates in the process or not. Remember, truly innovative ideas often grow markets. But with the right business model, those lower-margin models can produce real profits.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. These seven transformative characteristics are essential in three main areas of an operating model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

One of the oldest business models in the world is using new technology to trample traditional businesses, drive innovation, and create new and immense sources of value. They operate platforms that make it easy and efficient for participants to connect and exchange value. Strategy & Execution Book.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

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. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

The deeper question is: Will these new communication channels actually force material changes not just in the way companies market their products but in the strategies and operations they use to develop and build those products as well? Sure, one could argue that these changes in business models are partly driven by other factors (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve. These diverse groups of volunteer employees work across organizational boundaries and outside of their regular operational duties. in less than five years.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Today, however, by exploiting new digital technologies, firms like Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB have made customer co-creation of value central to their business models and in doing so now rank among the world’s most innovative and valuable firms. They must be eager participants in the value equation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

Digital business models are a bit of a misnomer. Just ask Sony about Minidisc players and Netflix about their DVD business. In the last century, industrial business models were defined by their use of machines to create increasing returns to scale. But exponential models are not straight. Insight Center.

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Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Using the concept of controlled chaos it is possible to increase efficiency and innovation. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. The PO guides the team towards building the product or in lean business modeling parlance, continually proves or disproves the current business hypothesis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

In the survey more than 70% of participants reported that they felt their organization was well positioned for future success, with about 15% strongly agreeing with that sentiment. Fear of aggressive new competition is minimal, with only 3% of survey participants saying they feel very unprepared relative to their markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. And they can create a lot of value by generating new business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Omada Health , a digital therapeutics firm focused on preventing obesity-related chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, has made significant strides in achieving both with the 120,000 prediabetics who have participated in its program. It is easy for participants to get started in the program. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. ” An Alternative Path.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Digital platforms are grease for the flywheel, facilitating the rapid exchange of value between network participants at near-zero marginal cost. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Digital platforms, such as online communication channels or marketplaces, allow for rapid and inexpensive scaling, among other advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s now a multi-billion-dollar global business. Put another way, Uber’s business model extends a very complex supply chain beyond the boundaries of a corporation in a way that creates real results without any planning in advance. Airline operations are a huge optimization challenge. That’s remarkable.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. To remain relevant, the banks must internally mutate, disrupting themselves to participate in modern banking. Innovate ferociously. Thinking local is strategic to appropriately examine competing business models.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Companies like Google operate simultaneously in multiple ecosystems, as do their competitors. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market. antitrust authorities seem to believe that Google needs to be policed from stifling innovation in the marketplace. Apple), the industry stack is vertically integrated.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

“Explorers” are the most innovative and optimistic about technology and are early adopters; they make up 41% of on-demand consumers. population that on-demand services tend to be innovative and are still in their early stages of adoption — and therefore have plenty of growth potential.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Manufacturing footprints are likely to change substantially, and new business models will emerge to help innovators tap new opportunities and disrupt industries. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Three powerful trends are spurring the rise of the machines.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." Barriers to entry be damned.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

million workers — but is mostly comprised of entrepreneurial, family-run businesses with fewer than 500 employees. The main criteria were that the speakers came from outside the industry, and would be able to tell stories (sort of like TED-talks) about how other companies went about innovation and reinvention.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Today the company has annual revenues above $20 billion, competes in healthcare and electronics operations and derives significant revenues from document solutions. They frequently divert sufficient resources to participate in emerging markets. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

It was thankless in part because about half the participants didn't think law firms needed a strategy. After all, as the program organizer said in some exasperation, these guys were "working with a business model that hasn't changed since the time of Charles Dickens!". Just keep billing those hours! Well, we did warn them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. Share buybacks are preferred to investment in innovation, entrepreneurship, and value creation. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. Rinse and repeat, over and over.

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