Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

And everywhere you go in this gathering of the smartest people in the most exciting business category on the planet, there are marketing mistakes being made. The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. You don't make wireless Airplay speakers. Be bold, be shameless.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Although it's far too soon to tell whether that program will lead to a major new line of business, Whole Foods should be commended for continuing to innovate during the current economic doldrums when many companies have instead retrenched by making across-the-board cutbacks, even in product R&D. Wireless carriers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Armstrong’s Killer App.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

In three recent blog posts we looked at the innovation mindset in individuals, profiling game changers Jerry Buss , Peter Jackson , and Shantha Ragunathan. Innovators maintain a laser focus on outcomes , avoid getting caught in the activity trap , and proactively "expand the pie" to make an impact. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. for three years. for three years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. What makes it so successful? As the saying goes, “Success has many fathers.” This innovation made it cheaper for carriers to deploy base stations, and was popular with European carriers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

On the other hand, you have the media pointing out the country’s shallow middle class, growing inequality and joblessness, and a trail of multinationals frustrated by the lack of China-like success in India. Consider two success stories in India’s consumer economy: Amazon and Renault’s ultra low-cost Kwid car.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success. This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider. It stiffed Cellairis and the wireless providers whose services it resold. Nothing more than a tweak, they thought.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Its successes command global respect; its failures deserve serious scrutiny. Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. Novel subtlety and nuance can be wonderful but my innovation heart belongs to obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Hiring and grooming local talent in key markets makes plenty of sense, but as IESE Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat explains in McKinsey Quarterly, firms that rely so heavily on localization that they no longer groom expatriates are being shortsighted. "And The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get. You expect to fail repeatedly and hope to eventually get to a product-market fit. You get your technology into the market and see who wants it. It enables the product to function.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

After all, the conventional wisdom holds that patents are essential to keep competitors from imitating innovations, especially for small startup companies. If rivals imitate, they will drive down prices, wiping out the potential profits on innovation, thus making it difficult or impossible to earn a return on R&D investments.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Americans today stand on the brink of next-generation wired and wireless networks that will offer speeds as much as 20 times faster than today’s best connections, making possible new applications and even new industries. Since 1996, according to trade group USTelecom, investors have poured over $1.4 EU digital divide ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Already, the popularity of the iPhone app store and the iPhone device itself has given credence to a purchasing phenomenon and the clout a device company can have on a telecom carrier's success. Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. European wireless carriers are negotiating deals in growing numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. Successful firms have an established customer base, most of whom are satisfied with the products they are purchasing. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream. 3-D printing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

. “Betting on alpha” refers to investing in projects which may have a low probability of success, but also very significant upside. Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. This expansion isn't just domestic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Sony’s attempt in the 7th generation was not successful. But evidence of these stumbles can also be found in last week’s PS4 launch.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation. Google has about the same revenue and profits as Comcast, and more than twice the market capitalization. That’s not the only slippery slope. An open Internet does seem like a good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Despite its success online, relatively few companies with physical venues employ advanced analytics solutions that track customer behaviors in their physical spaces. Marketing. In fact, 98% of IR500 retailers use some form of web analytics. We are in the Age of the Customer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

The Mississippi-born former IBM salesman, FedEx COO, and CEO of AT&T Wireless and Netscape Communications argues that funny sayings, especially if they involve animals, stick with people in a way that PowerPoint strategy slides usually don’t. So, it’s not just the fighter, it’s the terrain that they’re on, the market they’re in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

A new CMS code may seem like a tiny matter, but this one emblemizes a larger shift toward delivering health services independently of time and place, enabled by technologies such as smartphones, sensors, and wireless health-monitoring devices — what we in the field call telemedicine.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. For instance, hundreds of employees at a successful global technology company I studied participate in auto-analytic experiments to find correlations between knowledge work productivity (the thinking self) and improved health (our physical selves).

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