Energy, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications

Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term

Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. in the most radical technologies.

Innovation

Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry

Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Few people realize the important role water plays in our daily energy use, or the energy required to heat, treat, and supply water. Meanwhile, the electricity used for water treatment can be as much as one-third of a city’s energy bill. Most companies’ value chains are heavily dependent on water and energy resources.

Energy

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry

Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms? For much of the 1980s and 1990s, many parts of the startup ecosystem focused on communications, technology, and health care. And companies like Google, Apple, and even telecommunications titans are eying the industry.

System

System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications

Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Applying this standard, we identified 50 U.S.

Industry

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role.

NGO

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications

A Plan to Revitalize Greece

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

Planning

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation

The $2,000 Car

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

Glocalization

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Make Data Work Throughout Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Important as the technology and expertise may be, we find that most companies should focus first on high-quality data, process, people, and culture. Ignoring these is a bit like putting enough energy into a leap to get halfway across a stream; it takes time and money but leads to an unhappy result. So where to begin? We figure it out.

Organization

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Job Growth Depends on Reducing Entrepreneurial Risk

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Although well-intentioned, these programs often have the unintended consequences of benefiting the wrong businesses, favoring sub-optimal technology, and creating market distortion. Picture something like a rotational program for innovation. They do not decrease the cost to the entrepreneur if his venture fails.

Entrepreneur

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The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Just as government and industry coordinated the telecommunications response after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the order enlists both public and private entities in assuring that critical infrastructure is continuously monitored and protected from attack. Government Information & technology Risk management'

Cooper

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications

Leadership in Liminal Times

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

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus

A Call to Boycott U.S. Tech Platforms Over the NSA's PRISM Surveillance

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

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications

A Partnership Is Not a Purchase Order

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. Google uses a different approach to working with multiple external parties.

Software

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications

Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

Diversity

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry

The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

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. Contestification.

Innovation

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising

The Cable Guys Need to Come up with a Better Argument

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Cable internet service goes out in snowstorms, too, and if the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index is to be believed, Americans are much happier with their energy providers (who score a respectable 76 on the index ) than their internet providers (a dismal 63 , absolute worst of the 43 industries tracked).

Telecommunications

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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age. The second era requires larger scale in technology and deeper R&D expertise.

Venture Capitalist

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g., aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

Talent Management

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Transforming Health Care Takes Continuity and Consistency

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. But no country is delivering these transformational changes.

Health Care

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality

Laissez-Faire, Picking Winners, and Other Myths of National Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

Declining prices of computer hardware enabled American companies to invest heavily in information technology, which in turn, drove a surge in U.S. We find ourselves falling behind in several industries of the future, including solar energy and other areas of green tech. productivity. China runs the largest trade surplus in high tech.)

Real Estate

Real Estate Policies Telecommunications Industry

How Microeconomists Made Amazon Possible

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In an earlier age, “general purpose technologies” such as electricity and communications networks were recognized by economists as their own category because they provided vital inputs for all kinds of businesses, revolutionized the way business was conducted in general, and literally redefined what it meant to live in modern society.

Transportation

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Leadership Digital

Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

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Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Create Early Warning Systems to Detect Competitive Threats

Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

The Buzz on Green Business in China

A Plan to Revitalize Greece

The $2,000 Car

Make Data Work Throughout Your Organization

Job Growth Depends on Reducing Entrepreneurial Risk

The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security

Leadership in Liminal Times

A Call to Boycott U.S. Tech Platforms Over the NSA's PRISM Surveillance

A Partnership Is Not a Purchase Order

Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

The Cable Guys Need to Come up with a Better Argument

Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Transforming Health Care Takes Continuity and Consistency

Laissez-Faire, Picking Winners, and Other Myths of National Competitiveness

How Microeconomists Made Amazon Possible

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