Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 1, 2013

Visit the airport in Beijing and ride the train that transports passengers from terminal to terminal. He said that in the years following Kennedy’s articulation of that goal, NASA engineers would periodically hit a major roadblock and declare the goal impossible. Young and old alike are actually excited about their future.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Sully is the story of Captain Sullenberger and the challenges he faced as he was brought before the National Transportation Safety Board to review his processes and what went wrong. Engineers aren’t pilots. The NTSB investigation panel heard from engineers who said Sully could have landed the plane at LaGuardia.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 21, 2012

In his words, “I don’t bore myself with market research” because “all they do is use the past to predict the future.” Strategists can choose to create new markets rather than just getting to the top of the one they are in. ” At exactly the point his competitors were fearful he moved into new areas.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2021

If you’re looking to help tap into the online market, then here are seven pro tips and tricks to develop and grow a business online. After all, impressing the search engines is what will likely increase the amount of traffic that you drive to these pages. Cross-promote your channels for maximum exposure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

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. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China.

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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. That way, when the market turns around you can race out of the gate ready to take fullest advantage of the upswing. A new reality. Virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) technology will likely get far more use. He was born in the U.K.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. On with the interview. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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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. Both men had recognized that global markets were opening and posed a risk to the company. Outward Bound brought me in to help develop a leadership program with the company’s third-generation family leaders.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  After all, what's the market for six figure sports cars?    When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology.   Very sweet.    Not very practical though. 

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Elon Musk, the South Africa-born entrepreneur, recently unveiled his proposals for the Hyperloop , a groundbreaking high-speed transportation system. At the same time, South Africa is currently considering its own transport future and many African countries are much farther behind in transport infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

A radical demographic shift is transforming the nature of consumer markets. Per capita spending will be the engine of consumption growth. Marketing savvy just isn’t enough to track these consumers. The young may be the darlings of marketers, but for companies chasing growth, the truly glamorous market is the elderly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

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. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar. In addition, stoves are difficult to transport from demo to demo.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. 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

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections. Assumptions are a luxury true leaders can’t afford.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering. Engineering graduates are good at solving problems. On a similar note, last week, I gave a keynote speech on reverse innovation to students at University of Alabama in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

But for entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate innovators clamoring to build these businesses, it’s important to recognize that not all opportunities in this market are created equal. When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps. Second, Vanguard tested the waters before diving in.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

When Electrolux, the European appliance maker, decided that it needed to push its product line up market, it faced a similar organizational challenge. To move up market, the company created a special team in which market researchers and industrial designers were at the top of the pecking order instead of engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Second, fix the transportation infrastructure. We need a more strategic approach to planning and funding our nation's transportation infrastructure for the future. Today, we address critical transportation needs in isolation. Trade is the most powerful engine of job growth and prosperity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. Marketing plays a catalyst role, providing growth funding.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The market will decide that. The beauty of the market is that it reveals the market participants' collective estimate of the price.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

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. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla. The few that do succeed often employ an “ ambidextrous” solution.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I used to be a reporter who covered transit and transportation issues. Big companies and start-ups often find themselves in a race to bring similar products to market. Their chief engineers became friendly, and they consulted closely on the decision to use the cut-and-cover method to dig the tunnels.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In the 1950's, the American market was quite small and dominated by entrenched players such as Harley Davidson, Indian, and imports like Triumph and Moto Guzzi. What lessons can we draw from how Honda took steps into this new market, which it ultimately came to dominate? and scope out the market. continued to hit the streets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

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. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Falling trade barriers, inexpensive energy and low transport charges further strengthened the case for making products overseas. for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Rethink product design , choosing fewer and simpler features that better suit the market instead of over-engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. billion people.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

At athenahealth, for example, we have a rules engine with 40 million billing rules (yes, there are that many ways to be denied) that enables us to execute our clients’ work more efficiently than they ever could alone. Networked knowledge. Last year they ran a one-day pilot to deliver 2,000 flu shots over four hours in 35 cities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Consider the integrated circuit, which first appeared on the market in 1961. At that time, the worldwide electronics market was $29 billion. The story of the internal combustion engine is even more dramatic. Raising the minimum wage, for instance, plays straight into the hands of the Internet efficiency engine.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The transformation that started in retailing, music, and movies in the 1990s has now spread to education, financial services, cars and trucks, transportation services, energy and the environment, hotels and lodging, life sciences, all types of manufacturing, and even shipping, to name just a few. The same underlying technologies (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. But there are some very important exceptions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

Which makes it hard for an engineering behemoth like Google to master. Cool cannot be engineered. To engineer hype, excitement, adulation … to manufacture “buzz.” An art, not a science. And yet that’s precisely what Google tried to do. ” Why? ” Aha!

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