Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. It appealed to a niche of film nerds.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Most leaders are interested in growing their businesses through innovation, but it's risky business: most innovation efforts fail. After years of helping to make innovation happen as chief communications officer at Steelcase and as a consultant, I have a point of view that I'm willing to bet on. Don't lose sight of the horizon.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

The higher cost of 3D display technology and the availability of content continue to bottleneck the growth in this industry but it’s changing and changing fast. Unlike 3D films made for the cinema or stereoscopic televisions operating with glasses, such 3D displays require proprietary content combining as many as eight discrete images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Integrate with local innovation ecosystems.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. No wasted film, slides, or prints. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. No wasted film, slides, or prints. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The economics of the “New Economy” could be described at a high level: Digital technology would cause a reduction in the cost of search and communication. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. An example is photography.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. Besides, it's cheaper for the superannuated set to move to India than retire in high-cost zones like the U.K. and the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

“Organization,” as we’re using it here, includes all of the required capabilities, resources (including human), and management systems necessary to implement your strategy. If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

It uses all the tricks of theater and film to fool an audience into believing that what they are seeing, hearing, or even touching is the real thing. I have seen stagecraft applied successfully in recent projects at Continuum Innovation, a Boston-based firm with which I am affiliated. The stagecraft cost thousands of dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. At the nearby emergency room, where he went next, another physician, unable to obtain the original films, reordered the CT scan. Yet, there is hope.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. I''ll describe both, but first let''s look at what''s wrong with some of the traditional sources of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. You know those baby sea turtles that get eaten by birds and crabs on their way from the nest to the water?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Much of the hype around blockchains has focused on their potential to fundamentally change the financial services industry – by dropping the cost and complexity of financial transactions, making the world’s unbanked a viable new market, and improving transparency and regulation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. When Innovation Is Strategy. How Boards Can Innovate. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

IT was viewed as noncore, a cost to be outsourced like janitorial services and security. It's conceivable that IT's views could have saved the company, had the culture been different and had executive management been willing to listen. So it had no voice. But leading companies like Zappo's, Apple, and Tesco avoid the trap.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

As David Kamp points out in his wonderful book, The United States of Arugula , American cuisine is in a state of ceaseless innovation, routinely outstripping the culinary cultures from which it springs. The average restaurant costs hundreds of thousands to open. The average food truck costs tens of thousands. It's pursuit.".

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. Because innovation requires it. Unusually excellent leaders deliberately create high-risk, low-cost environments – a.k.a. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

We didn't want to burden the organization with fixed costs. Almost everything had to be free, and the few things we paid for had to be scalable so that the unit costs would eventually approach zero. This became a hotbed of innovation as moderators built on each other's new ideas until a new service or procedure could be implemented.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

But even though radial tires were far superior to bias tires in terms of durability, cost per mile, and safety – and could be sold for an attractively higher price — they presented a challenge to U.S. Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. Innovation Strategy' incumbents.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Just as the A's used analytics to find undervalued players who got on base at a disproportionate rate, your company can crunch data to find the offers your customers will respond to best, the price points that will move the most products, or the supply chain configurations that will wring out most cost. You can count on opposition.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

No Hierarchy, No Management, No Nothing. How Medium is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers First Round Capital. Medium isn''t merely a digital publishing platform; it''s also a fierce adopter of Holacracy, a style of management that is entirely management-free. You Don''t Actually Watch Foreign Films.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement. Given the rising cost of urban land, real estate markets cannot satisfy this need on their own.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. With shared purpose, alignment happens without coordination costs. They might try what ING is doing with its café model.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

“This isn’t possible in print, broadcast, or traditional films, which may be why the media industry is such a dysfunctional place,” Peretti has said. That’s why film producers have no choice but to go with their gut. ” But what if you could automate your gut decisions? Consider entertainment.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

You used film to take pictures, got them developed in a photo shop, and mailed copies to relatives if you wanted to share them. Managing your reputation and its attendant risks has become far more complex. It's not you — the world has become more complex. Consider 1980. There was no such thing as a personal computer.

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Competitive Advantage Film System Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You could tell by the language he used: "So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.". They're the ones Netflix has managed to upset right now.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. The cost advantage of conventional “subtractive” manufacturing will disappear sooner than expected.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the Conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

“One of the great things about India is its ability to over-celebrate everything from weddings to rain to the latest Rajinikanth film. To the outsider, it’s the great Indian spectacle. The annual unveiling of the government budget is no exception,” writes Sean McLain of The Wall Street Journal’s Delhi bureau.

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Budgeting Cost Globalization Sharpe 8

Ask Atma

MAY 3, 2011

For example say you have an idea for an application/production that will cost $1000 and take two weeks. This of course is an extreme simplification, but the idea is missing from many project management cycles. If you use the limitations of your resources as a design criterion you can often engender a whole new dimension of innovation.

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Creativity Brainstorming Constraint Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

These lessons are based on my recent research with Innovation Places Principal Innovator Nat Bulkley, along with years of experience using the Reciprocity Ring — a structured process of asking for help — in companies and executive education. One of its unique practices involves the induction of new managing partners.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Ticket sales cover just a fraction of its production and administrative costs, with the balance coming from donations, grants and endowment. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. He had been director of product management at Dell Computer before coming to Stanford.

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