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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here? Thought so.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Insight Center.

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Innovate Faster or Innovate Better?

Harvard Business Review

Yale School of Management Professor Dick Foster notes that a single firm cannot innovate faster than the market in which it participates. The end result too frequently is the market speeds ahead of the autonomous organization. A large company just can't innovate faster than the market. Why is that?

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What Changes When AI Is So Accessible That Everyone Can Use It?

Harvard Business Review

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

media innovators, with hundreds of billions of dollars created by companies that are helping democratize content production and distribution while developing new ways to connect advertisers and customers. The combined market value of those four companies? It has been a great 20 years for U.S. Scripps, McClatchy, and A.H.