Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. Incubate new businesses and models. The technology began life as a project to create a battery for a hybrid locomotive; only later was it adapted for other applications.

Innovation 15

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

I''ve interviewed over 150 impressive, young entrepreneurs and engineers throughout the Arab world. Silicon Valley and other global tech operating companies get this. LinkedIn, who already had five million members from the Middle East without any presence there at all, also just opened operations for the region and Africa.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” The next question was where to establish the software center.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At The Data Incubator, we’ve talked to dozens of employers looking to hire data scientists from our training program, from large corporates like Pfizer and JPMorgan Chase to smaller tech startups like Foursquare and Upstart. Hiring Information & technology' It’s important to get the right person for either job.

Incubator 9

Incubator Information Technology Metrics Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". .*

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. Incubate new businesses and models. The technology began life as a project to create a battery for a hybrid locomotive; only later was it adapted for other applications.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world. The first business incubator in the U.S. opened in 1959 and is still operating. In the last couple of years, we have seen a renaissance in the incubator business.

Incubator 16

Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. Innocentive is a network that brings together "seekers" with technology challenges with "solvers" all over the world.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Our job is to deliver the cutting-edge technologies they require. And, especially in recent years, as prolonged global economic challenges have rippled through the aerospace industry, we also need to make those technologies more affordable. That requires constant innovation, in both our products and our own operations.

Operations 8

Operations Incubator Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. The company is, of course, a massive enterprise, with $75 billion in revenues, over 60,000 employees, and a dizzying array of products, from the core search business to the android operating system to nascent businesses like autonomous cars. An internal incubator.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion. It’s that the U.S. based companies. America’s problem?

Innovation 9

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 9

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Systems Engineer. DEADS: Data Engineer and Data Scientist. Machine Learning Engineer. We currently operate in the era of ‘programmatic computing’, where data analysis involves heuristically searching for patterns in limited data sets, then performing operations on the result. To: AI/Cognitive Era.

Positioning 150

Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel.in Think about that.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Governments and private investors have built the incubators, hosted the hackathons, and tossed around plenty of seed funding. Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. Private investors, unlike government funders, operate at lightning speed. So why does Europe continue to miss out? And quickly.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. R&D Tax Incentives , with their data suggesting that reducing the cost of R&D by 10% results in an increase in innovation by 10%.

Resources 87

Resources Innovation GDP Education 87

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center.

Innovation 11

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 Engineers from the EU have been key to the successes of many UK companies. The UK leads Europe in “app economy” jobs.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8