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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. IT management Information & technology Technology' It''s C-Suite Problem.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Diminishing cycle times, rapidly changing intellectual property and fast R&D allow competition to catch up quickly on any breakthrough, so even the most valuable innovations can see their price premium drop rapidly.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Tech IPO prices and subsequent trading prices were disconnected from revenue and profits. But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices. China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

CEOs should encourage R&D teams to move away from pursuing over-engineered "perfect products" — which today's thrifty customers find too expensive, hard to use, and eco-unfriendly — and focus instead on developing "good enough" solutions. By "good enough," we don't mean stripped-down versions of existing high-end products.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Performing market assessments. Pricing and revenue modeling. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role?