Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

They were also very heavy, as they had to withstand the rigors of mostly unpaved roads used by the horse-and-wagon mode of transportation. He simplified the design and construction of the automobile, narrowed the choices available (“any color you want, so long as it’s black”) and marketed it toward what we would today call the “down market.”

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

The authors analyzed transportation data from the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey, which is generated by a consortium of the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Of course, the study rests on the likely developments in the sector, both from a technological perspective but also a regulatory perspective.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Towards Flexibility and Productivity ; ran a panel event, Shaping the Future of Apprenticeships ; and hosted a skills roundtable in Huddersfield, where West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin acknowledged the value of apprenticeships for career development. Management apprenticeships offer a powerful way to prepare managers.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2017

Employees who work with the same perspective are more successful than those who act as if they are passengers on some cruise ship transporting them to retirement. You are both a doer and marketer. Independent consultants don’t just do the work—they also market the work. They know that execution is the true test of commitment.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

For example, you will need to realistically consider staff salaries, transportation fees, advertisement expenditure, material prices, equipment and technology costs, plus more. For example, you must be within close proximity to great public transport links, so your employees can reach your facility with ease. Choose the Ideal Location.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Specifically, the state is pinning its hopes on small business, with a portion of federal R&D funds “set aside for small business to develop and commercialize innovative technology.&#

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. A manager that can provide this to their employees will develop a loyal and strong team.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. Packaging designers developed a six-sided box that allowed them to ship nine filtration systems in a container versus six in a square box, further reducing the costs of production. It actually cleaned the environment.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

VR offers a powerful sense of immersion, making you feel like you are transported to another place. As low-cost, high-quality AR headsets become available in the coming few years, there is an incredible opportunity for developers to create new social experiences at a distance. A new reality.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Tesla is best known for its very hot $100k electric battery powered roadster that goes from 0 to 60 in under four seconds.   After all, what's the market for six figure sports cars?  That's where Tesla is going to build battery powered family sedans.    Very sweet. 

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. From this list, some readers may infer that innovation is largely the realm of engineers and scientists working in developed countries for large companies, assuming that innovators from countries such as India and China don''t matter after all.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

This seemingly banal transaction speaks volumes to the power of how established retail has pervaded our everyday experience in the United States. We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. In the last few years, a more powerful dynamic has gained traction. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It’s hard to underestimate the power of an attractive or unattractive market in driving outcomes for companies, including start-ups. As Andy Rachleff, one of the founders of the venture capital firm Benchmark has said “When a great team meets a lousy market, markets win.”. Is the market attractive?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

To keep his workers thinking and engaged, Ohno developed a new way for them to think about waste – where ‘waste’ is not a thing but an assessment or an interpretation. They create value not by making things but by designing what gets made, determining markets for products, and generating consistent customer satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I recently spent a couple days inside a large financial services company with a team that had been tasked with developing disruptive ideas. That set in motion the effort to develop the "people's car," and its target price point of 1 lakh, or roughly $2,500. Members felt energized and were pleased with their progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries. Today, new transportation vendors like Uber, Lyft, Zipcar, and Grabtaxi are changing our relationship with cars. Some of the same factors that have driven the transformation in IT help point the way toward the future of transportation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. Department of Transportation estimates that 15% of the country''s roads are in an unacceptable condition and says that road congestion costs the U.S. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. With the rise of distributed forms of energy, such as rooftop solar power, and batteries , it’s become much more feasible to match individual demand for electricity with on-site production.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. But while the power to initiate a transition to a consumption-led economy lies in government hands, what the government unleashes, companies can nurture.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. To understand where this new mobility might take us, it’s important to distinguish between two types of AI-powered motor vehicles: self-driving and driverless.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods is forcing many incumbents in the grocery segment to rethink their go-to-market strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. But what about the impact on global employment? Perhaps in tourism?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Most companies have a "power alley" — a function that is the most dominant. These power alleys tend to be very stable, but the hierarchy often needs to be upended within teams built for innovation projects. To date, most companies have entered the developing world in a straightforward way.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

Apple is so great at connectivity, aesthetics, and entertainment that any vehicle they develop will incorporate these as table stakes. With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. The first scenario is to enter cars as a Trojan horse to sell more iPhones.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

First, develop a strategy for energy security — then stick to it. But to reap the benefits, the public and private sectors need to work together and make a sustained commitment to testing and developing the most effective alternative fuel technologies. Second, fix the transportation infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% However, India remains a difficult market for multinational firms to enter. India is a large, fragmented, and heterogeneous market. over the next three years. Cultural variations are important.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In order for Nissan to actually pursue the Vision Zero goal, the company is forced to think differently about innovation and product development, developing technologies that keep cars from hitting each other. Deutsche Bahn: Achieve rail transport that is CO2-free and powered by renewables.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Keeping the world at 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Those companies are at the bottom of the market, ignored by the mainstream but thriving in applications where customers don’t need all of the features of a traditional automobile, or in specific applications where EVs perform better than traditional vehicles. We’re witnessing a similar pattern develop in low-speed EVs and EUVs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. During this period, climate change became a central issue in political and economic debate, leading to a range of regulatory, market, and physical risks and opportunities. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, although some of our clients have been facing difficulties resulting from the current environment, primarily because of currency pressures, many others are continuing to see strong growth, even in troubled markets such as South Africa and Angola.

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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. I believe it will power the future — not just in poor countries, but everywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

” When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market. General Motors had 20%.

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