Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

Globalization 13

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. Innovation' That''s not right.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Powering one 60-watt bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year can require 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of water — enough to fill a large tanker truck. Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements. Skills in developing partnerships that cross boundaries are critical. Several factors have helped accelerate the move to integrated solutions.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. Even larger investments are pouring into housing, waterworks, mass transit systems, power plants, natural gas distribution networks, and electric grids.

Industry 8

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. That starts with developing a deep understanding of how customers behave and make decisions. Build a joint local strategy.

Marketing 9

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Fourteen years ago, Darren Entwistle arrived as a young CEO (he is now Executive Chair) and immediately began transforming the regional telecommunications player into a global entity. But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products. billion to $11.7

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Indeed, we think every organization must develop and execute an aggressive plan to put data to work. Obviously, the high-powered analytics types are in short supply. As a data-driven culture permeates more broadly, an enterprise's abilities to take bold, innovative, concerted action on increasingly larger challenges also grow.

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. That is why live business projects can be powerful vehicles for learning, especially when they aim for dramatic outcomes on a tight timeframe. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company.

Project 8

Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Held back by self-doubt, some of your most talented people will shy away from leading projects or teams, or put off going for the big opportunities – new clients, new business lines, innovative moves – that could help your business grow. Ask your team members to start developing the skill of managing their inner critics.

Mentor 8

Mentor Telecommunications Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. This landscape is evolving rapidly, in ways not even Google could foresee.

Software 14

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

Process 14

Process CEO Insurance Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Most importantly, executives have to follow developments closely. billion in arears) that the government is now a reliable borrower.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

Globalization 8

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. Such is the power of China’s valuable and difficult-to-replicate competitive advantages. A prototype that takes two weeks to develop in Silicon Valley can be created overnight in Shenzhen. In 2017, DJI’s sales were around $2.7

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The power, road, and water networks had their boom times, too — and while they are now older, with limited growth prospects, this would also be true if they were unregulated and entirely private. But since the mid-1990s, telecommunications regulation in the U.S. electricity, transportation, and water networks mostly aren’t.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. The name for this digital infrastructure reflects its roots in the world of software development rather than public policy: it is referred to as “ The India Stack.”

Banking 13

Banking Long-term Short-term System 13

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Each year INSEAD and WIPO team up to produce the Global Innovation Index , which aims to rank nations according to their innovative capacity and outputs. At the heart of the rankings are various institutions and institutional factors that the researchers believe underpin good innovation.

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

This infrastructure sits on top of a publicly available substructure of assets and resources — telecommunications and the Internet, for example. Consider: Standards-based (rather than proprietary) technologies in mobility, Internet protocols and open API''s demand shorter application and infrastructure development cycle times.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. The CMO of a telecommunications company, for instance, found the biggest spike in churn came when customers moved. Standardize customer data.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. First is staying power.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

In 2012, Huawei surpassed Ericsson – at that time the world leader in telecommunications and networks – in terms of sales revenue and net profit, and this trend continued in the fiscal year of 2014 when Huawei reached an all-time high sales revenue of $46.5 billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S.

Succession 8

Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

When people talk of valuable platforms, they are typically thinking of things like the operating systems for personal computers, tablet computers, and smartphones, all of which allow and indeed encourage software developers to invent “apps”; or the Amazon selling system which provides a layer of basic logistical functions for independent retailers.

Transportation 8

Transportation Price Airlines Retail 8