Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

They invest in whatever it takes to innovate new solutions for customers. Incumbents, on the other hand, very often see the future as a threat: As leaders invested heavily in the status quo, innovation and disruption are not good for them. Turbulence erodes profitability, innovation marginalizes their current product offerings.

Engineering 9

Engineering Long-term Short-term Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As I have grappled with my own this-just-may-break-me failures, I am increasingly convinced that dreaming must be a process, an engine of experimentation. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. Acknowledge sadness. I had been all-in. And then I wasn't.

Ries 22

Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As I have grappled with my own this-just-may-break-me failures, I am increasingly convinced that dreaming must be a process, an engine of experimentation. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. Acknowledge sadness. I had been all-in. And then I wasn't.

Ries 19

Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Between 65% and 75% miss their revenue or profit goals, depending on whose research you look at. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Arkes 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Google your name periodically.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose.

Short-term 15

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose.

Short-term 15

Short-term Mass Marketing Marketing Mix Taylorism 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Several of the great success stories of corporate ethnography have 3M engineer Richard Drew as their protagonist. Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” That alerted him to a need and ignited the idea for what became 3M’s keystone product: masking tape.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4 Think back to the January floods in Australia which covered an area larger than France and Germany combined.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The executive orders he has signed in his first two weeks in office (and the manner in which those orders have been issued) already undermine that goal. The Bay Area is the heart of innovation in the software industry; coming here to bring their businesses to life is the dream of many tech founders. on business.

Policies 8

Policies Innovation Software Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

You see both the innovation and the ethos of cool. I mean, has it led to technological innovation? Absolutely, an efflorescence of technological innovation. Has it, on the other hand, done some of the things that used to be goals of business in the ‘40s and the ‘50s? That’s what you see in Google.

Information Technology 11

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The latest “report card” from the American Society of Civil Engineers gives the U.S. It set aggressive goals for broadband evolution, including upgrading digital networks to provide 100 million homes with connection speeds of 100 Mbps (a goal already reached , according to the Department of Commerce).

Wireless 8

Wireless Policies Proposal Banking 8