Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2020

But with advances in technology, today it’s possible to get it done in days, not months or years, and take immediate action on the insights to boost your bottom line. Though the concept of segmentation is nothing new, what is new is how quickly you can derive them and garner insights.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] Innovation Capital.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Consider the fictitious example of ABC Corp, an organization that historically has built predictable products with existing technology. At an individual level, employees need to become comfortable sharing wild ideas. ABC Corp has a vision to become a more innovative company.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

The good news is that you don’t need a PHD in anthropology to spot trends in the wild. Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Some examples of these include the desire for status, love, safety, excitement, connection, value, and convenience. Drivers of Change.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

A pendulum tends to swing too far at first, and pretty soon we were in the second Wild, Wild West. For example, if two or three teams within a unit are developing technology products, is it really efficient for each team to do their own product management internally? But there’s always tinkering to be done.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Much of the discussion about the Internet of Things has focused on the technology that makes it possible, but the technology is the easiest part. Health care is an extreme but good example of the customer-relationship work that’s needed to make the most of the Internet of Things. Test a lot.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2012

Social media, business social media, is running wild – with or without you. Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. Invite all of your customers to join you by sending examples of your value messages. TOTAL JOKE. And a bad one at that. Same with Apple.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Example: Zig #1: Drive to profitability – have product bring in $20K in revenue. Example: We will have sold 15K units of product. Example: We will have sold 15K units of product and bring in $20K in revenue by April 2012, or we will go back to the drawing board. Define when you have completed your zig zag.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

As a group, we saw the need to fully embrace technology in a way that would easily allow skilled volunteers to transfer their knowledge to our partners in Africa. For example, Nyirefami, in Tanzania, is a company that mills flour. Embrace technology. Technology breaks down barriers and helps unite people with purpose.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

For example, wild herds of horses share the leadership role of the herd, and different horses step into the leadership role depending on the situation the herd finds themselves in. It enables the leadership to be shared which is a common theme that we see in nature. No one doubts that today’s consumer is more demanding than ever.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The median age of technology firms, backed by venture capitalists, doing an IPO has reached eleven years and is increasing. For example, the initial investments of $25 million, made by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital in Google in 1999, increased by more than hundred folds by the time Google went public in 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

in the most radical technologies. For example, many, if not most, of the Chinese products we buy every day are produced by German-made machinery, and the companies that make them are thriving. As a consequence, Germany doesn’t only seek to form new industries, it also infuses its existing industries with new ideas and technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

Sure, it's an industry show, and the press here understands technology, but how do you think they will communicate about your product if all you give them is tech specs? For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology. Technology marketing needs to be shameless. Be bold, be shameless. You don't make speakers.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Posted by: Sue Lohr | February 01, 2011 at 09:44 PM The wild goat chase and the one that got away. It has 4 anttenna's that will pick up anyone of the 4 satillites out there, it's far ahead of the rest in technology, and comes complete with this handi back pack for ease of carring. ok, this is getting ridiculous!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

To illustrate the movement from “artisanal analytics” to “autonomous analytics,” I’ll provide an (anonymous) detailed example. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. These technologies can handle the largest datasets and can dramatically accelerate computation speeds.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

Many of the world’s biggest companies operate in silos — for example, their customer service and sales departments do not share a customer relationship management (CRM) database , and employees don’t collaborate around the customer to ensure a powerful customer experience. Data is not always shared efficiently.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

For example, if you want to open a café and have never worked in the catering industry before, it would make sense to try working in one first. While a focus group can't fully represent how your idea will do in the wild, it will at least give you an idea of how it could be received by the public.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Most companies are hard at work building technology to better protect themselves and their users or customers. But technology can only get us so far. One of the best examples of this is our Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions. Insight Center. The Human Element of Cybersecurity. Sponsored by Varonis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell. Wild cycles, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

Users have always wanted to save money on their subscriptions, for example, so price is a factor. Delivery method and technology matter too. These surveys collect information on technological purchases and preferences, as well as a wide range of demographic information (such as income and education) and location.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

Even with a technological head start, wining the fight for incumbents’ most profitable customers is nearly impossible. Consider, for example, two successful companies that at first seem to result from performance-gaps: Dropbox and Oculus VR. Oculus, of course, was wildly successful.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. Think this example atypical or anachronistic? Decision making Failure Information & technology' Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used. With Google X the company is attempting to put its mark on the very process of technological innovation. The comparison to the PC is telling.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

For example, one of the most important discoveries in the sequencing of the human genome came from Fred Sanger who reversed his process to achieve a breakthrough. As explained by Siddharta Mukerjee in his book The Gene , Sanger “turned his own strategy upside down and tried to build DNA, rather than break it down.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

Consider a real example: Not long after a company created an online suggestion box on its new intranet, with all the bells and whistles of the latest social-media technologies, an executive lamented: “All we get are a bunch of complaints and impossibly wild ideas that we couldn’t follow up on in a million years.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

I'm fairly confident that while Obama may be the one that hits the "Tweet" button, it's highly unlikely that his tweets will go out into the wild without planning and, for the lack of a better word, design. As further evidence to the shift, one can look to technology for yet another clue. He's no Anthony Weiner.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

For example, in response to a Pew survey question , 85% of Germans favored the more stringent European data privacy standards , while only 29% of American respondents felt the same. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. The idea of protecting U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

I have a clock in my office that synchronizes itself at 1:00 am every day using a signal sent out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Fort Collins, Colorado, which has an advertised precision in the fraction-of-a-second range. It should be trustworthy, right? Not so — it can be wildly inaccurate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

It developed an app , for example, that allows military members to deposit checks from their cell phones – a major convenience for anyone serving overseas. They were the initial developers of this technology and hold the patent for it. This commitment to service drives the company’s innovation efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. But "as our own history suggests, the economic impact of technology piracy isn''t straightforward," with examples of patents and trade secrets both helping and hurting innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

For example, consider the Twitter data generated by Hurricane Sandy, more than 20 million tweets between October 27 and November 1. For example, Boston has a problem with potholes, patching approximately 20,000 every year. Big data's signal problems won't disappear as the use of smartphones and other digital technologies increases.

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