Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. The following cities are leading the economic revival in their recovery sectors: Washington , D.C

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Executives play in a bigger league; they play for higher stakes; and the game is for keeps. Doing the day-to-day, hands-on work doesn’t fit the job description of the executive; driving the strategy, developing the bench, and making high-caliber decisions have become the new coinage of the realm.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. Company executives were split on the matter. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2018

In 1997, health information technology and digitial health pioneer Warner Slack wrote his bold and prophetic book, Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Care. A focus on simplifying and solving basic patient needs is what drives adoption in health care, not novelty or degree of innovation.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. This is Canada's No.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Suppressing Innovation. Not Listening.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Self-driving vehicles, once a science fiction technology, are rapidly becoming a reality that promises to transform our lives – making it safer and more efficient to move people and goods, while reinventing our thinking about transportation. Arizona startup Local Motors developed “Ollie,” the self-driving bus here.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With what I’ve noted thus far I’m always amazed at the number of executives who don’t keep up with their professional reading. Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves. and this is in addition to reading a variety of industry publications and periodicals. Best wishes Scott… [link] Dan Collins Mike, Excellent post.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders. To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. They believe big companies are weighed down by their own success, too invested in the past to create and execute new ideas. Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Here's an uncomfortable truth about innovation: No matter how great your idea, you can't deliver breakthrough innovation without breakthrough organizational design. But even if you get all of that right, your effort will fall apart if you build the wrong team to execute. You have to innovate from scratch.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The inability of established firms to come up with breakthrough innovations is a truism today. Joseph Schumpeter, the 20 th century economist known for heralding the role of innovation in the evolution of society, argued that established firms were best positioned to innovate because of the resources available to them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Waymo’s Director of Operations Shaun Stewart said that one of the reasons they chose Trov is that innovative technology needs innovative partners. ” Founder and CEO of Trov Scott Walchek said that “ this partnership highlights the convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While world-changing in its day, Westinghouse’s technology is now decades old, and years of underinvestment have left the macrogrid increasingly inefficient and unreliable. Is there a lesson here for executives? Executives, however, are way behind. A vibrant startup scene is emerging alongside university research labs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

We couldn’t agree more about the need for innovation. The response to Ebola has largely relied on public health strategies established over a century ago and technology that has been around for decades. The unique character, scale, and persistence of this epidemic demand innovation in how Ebola is tackled.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Our research showed that it is possible for business executives to assess how susceptible their industry is to disruption and why, and to do the same at a more granular level for their company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The beneficiaries will be small businesses that provide innovative products, services and solutions. There is no week in big cities when a technology event is not happening. We have also observed more funding opportunities for technology companies. Technology hubs are emerging and Silicon Valley continues to inspire.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” Yet those very weaknesses give startups an overwhelming advantage in innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber, like all transportation services, has never and will never offer a product that’s composed purely of digital “bits,” as companies do in media (Netflix and YouTube), music (Spotify), or advertisements (Facebook and Google). Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. The carriers blamed poor execution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Originally gaining notoriety as the data technology underneath the cryptocurrency called bitcoin, today blockchain technology is expanding its reach far beyond the confines of currency and tackling issues involving transactional social trust throughout the world. Powering the Supply Chain with Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Yet little did I know that some of the most extraordinary innovations I’ve seen would take place in the pizza business. The scale of the changes at Domino’s are remarkable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Fueling this dynamism, Africa is adopting technology at a furious pace: it will soon have double the number of smartphone connections than North America. Strategy & Execution BOOK. As one example of such innovations, consider the story of Indomie noodles — one of Nigeria’s most successful consumer products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. The unhappy innovation inference? The room went quiet.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It won't be global middle class level with incomes of over $70,000, but still above subsistence living, buying health care, food, education, transportation, and entertainment. C ommitting to systematic execution: Turning ideas into action and executing relentlessly. One such is General Electric.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

I have seen stagecraft applied successfully in recent projects at Continuum Innovation, a Boston-based firm with which I am affiliated. One was a recent project for the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. In the past, the agency’s attempts to design gear around emerging technology had missed the mark.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

There are two kinds of health-care innovation: more-for-more and more-for-less. is the place to take advantage of the latest innovations such as proton-beam cancer-radiation therapy, for which the equipment and facilities cost about $1 billion. just has not been desperate enough to foster Indian-style health-care innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

But let's take a step back and consider the nature of the controversy, which I think is rooted in the way many inventors approach innovation. Other executives have similarly impressive backgrounds at Apple and in the aerospace and automotive industries. Many would-be innovators suffer the same problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

The contest is now shifting toward more-traditional industries, like transportation (Lyft and Uber, for example) and hospitality (Airbnb). Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. Competing in the Future.

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