Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

Smart devices and wireless connections are now nearly everywhere and have already contributed immensely to the growth of the e-commerce industry. With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

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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 22, 2011

Although it's far too soon to tell whether that program will lead to a major new line of business, Whole Foods should be commended for continuing to innovate during the current economic doldrums when many companies have instead retrenched by making across-the-board cutbacks, even in product R&D. Wireless carriers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 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. US HHS Secretary Sebelius also indicates "Health literacy is needed to make health reform a success in the USA." This means that nearly 23.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

In three recent blog posts we looked at the innovation mindset in individuals, profiling game changers Jerry Buss , Peter Jackson , and Shantha Ragunathan. Innovators maintain a laser focus on outcomes , avoid getting caught in the activity trap , and proactively "expand the pie" to make an impact. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider. It stiffed Cellairis and the wireless providers whose services it resold. Nothing more than a tweak, they thought.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Its successes command global respect; its failures deserve serious scrutiny. Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. Novel subtlety and nuance can be wonderful but my innovation heart belongs to obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

While this program wasn’t specifically targeted at Millennials, its success was driven by the passion for connection with the greater good that this generation is known to value. These enhance opportunities for both innovation and Millennial engagement. Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

After all, the conventional wisdom holds that patents are essential to keep competitors from imitating innovations, especially for small startup companies. If rivals imitate, they will drive down prices, wiping out the potential profits on innovation, thus making it difficult or impossible to earn a return on R&D investments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

As companies struggle to develop a new generation of internationally competent leaders, many are turning to localization instead. The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton). UPWARDLY MOBILE. You'd think these would be a mobile company's salad days. BONUS BITS: Members Only. Ten Myths of "Say on Pay" (Stanford GSB).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Its success demonstrates the potential of digital health services, and its approach can serve as a model for applying such services to other chronic diseases. In addition there are 84.1 Emphasis on outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. Successful firms have an established customer base, most of whom are satisfied with the products they are purchasing. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

You don't make wireless Airplay speakers. It's not a coincidence that the most wildly successful marketer on the planet , Apple, is also the most shameless marketer. You let people enjoy their favorite movies and shows, from any device, on any screen in their home. Be bold, be shameless. Technology marketing needs to be shameless.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. Yes, there are challenges.

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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. Progress on resolving these issues will be slow and incremental.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. In all these cases, individuals are choosing to measure themselves but then participating in larger groups to "facilitate a next-generation understanding of disease and drug development.[of]

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Armstrong’s Killer App. Then he paused.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success. In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

On the other hand, you have the media pointing out the country’s shallow middle class, growing inequality and joblessness, and a trail of multinationals frustrated by the lack of China-like success in India. Consider two success stories in India’s consumer economy: Amazon and Renault’s ultra low-cost Kwid car.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access. In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Silicon Valley, with its proximity to Stanford and University of California, Berkeley, has long been the paradigm for innovation ecosystems. Soon thereafter a project with multi-year funding was developed to focus on a question of fundamental science in personalized medicine. Cultivate institutions, not just individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

. “Betting on alpha” refers to investing in projects which may have a low probability of success, but also very significant upside. Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. Lowers the hurdles to acquiring and growing companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection. Human resources. and design and user experience.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

Headlines with catchy titles, such as "Africa's Silicon Valley to be Unveiled in Nairobi" and "Kazan (Tartarstan) to Set-Up Innovative Ecosystem Similar to Silicon Valley," are found in every major news source. These efforts were successful because he had identified a general model that Silicon Valley represented. true/false).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

What makes it so successful? As the saying goes, “Success has many fathers.” This innovation made it cheaper for carriers to deploy base stations, and was popular with European carriers. billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S. These, too, have helped acquire useful knowledge. Employee Dedication.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get. This approach is successful for some ventures — mostly for software-related companies with modest initial operating expenses. Innovation &amp Entrepreneurship Book. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Academics and practitioners have built on Christensen's work to develop robust frameworks that can help leaders to spot disruptive developments early and respond appropriately. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Americans today stand on the brink of next-generation wired and wireless networks that will offer speeds as much as 20 times faster than today’s best connections, making possible new applications and even new industries. Since 1996, according to trade group USTelecom, investors have poured over $1.4

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