Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. While historically easier said than done, the work this company did to increase certainty and decrease risk in new product development is increasingly feasible.

Stage-Gate 128

Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Instead, IBM opened the APIs to Watson (there are now about 35 of them, with more being created all the time) and allowed third parties to use them for cognitive service applications.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. It is logically the product of return on sales times the ratio of sales to assets times the ratio of assets to equity. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

ROE 13

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 13