Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Christensen and Bower's article offered the counterintuitive notion that great companies fail for the same reasons they initially experience success.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

Planning 10

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But as the tech wave has continued to sweep the globe, the environment for all organizations, including non-tech ones, has shifted from stability and predictability to rapid, unpredictable change. Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace.

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

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. The company knew digital devices were all becoming telecommunications tools.

Wireless 12

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. The board can also continue to ensure the success of leapfrog leaders after their ascension to the CEO role.

CEO 13

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Commenting later on van Gennep’s work, anthropologist Victor Turner explained it as “a moment when those being moved in accordance with a cultural script were liberated from normative demands, when they were, indeed, betwixt and between successive lodgments in jural political systems. Lawrence A. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This trend means that leaders of successful organizations will need to develop different organizational structures, systems, and skills in order to meet these new customer requirements. These new challenges include: Moving from a more hierarchical organization toward a more “networked” organization.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. The first priority must be a renewed commitment to innovation. But just as U.S. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Susaans work with senior executives over the last 30 years shows over and again that the people (mostly men) who rise to senior levels in organizations have a preference for operating in the abstract. Ive seen this in the organizations where Ive consulted. Is the balance right in your organization? We all have.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. The goal is hollow — it can be accomplished without generating any gains for the organization or insights for team members. They also found better ways to work with stakeholders outside the organization.

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Project Parcell How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Two well-known companies have also made auctions famous, and economists have played central roles in the success of each. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 13

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 13

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate directors to date, we found that they were very worried about developing and enacting strategic plans that will enable their organizations to succeed. Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve seen this mistake numerous times in other industries — from a customer service fiasco by a major telecommunications company that launched DSL at too large a scale to NASA’s failure to recognize the implications of a foam strike in the Columbia shuttle tragedy. Celebrate intelligent failures as a source of innovation.

Company 8

Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

This is understandable but not good: The syndrome can lead to board timidity, herd mentality, and an aversion to innovation, which can hurt or even kill an enterprise. Successful board leaders ask questions such as “Why is this the right strategy, if the environment has changed?” “If Now comes the harder part: character.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence CEO Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. The CMO of a telecommunications company, for instance, found the biggest spike in churn came when customers moved. And when tracking revealed one version of an ad was more successful than another, P&G immediately shifted media support to the stronger one.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. Telecommunications, marketplace platforms, payment services, and postal and logistics systems are balkanized. There are a staggering 250 collective management organizations overseeing digital content, according to a 2014 EC press release. Investing in innovation capacity.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

When Evan Marwell decided to start EducationSuperHighway (ESH), a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing broadband internet access to every U.S. public school classroom, he approached the task with the mentality of a successful serial entrepreneur. Communications.

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System Entrepreneur Telecommunications Policies 8