Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." But destruction will come slowly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Christensen's research shows clearly that transformation often comes in the form a disruptive innovator that makes consumption simpler, convenient, and more affordable. Jack Dorsey's Square is processing millions of dollars in payments a day with its simple but powerful solution. Wonga 's payday loan offering continues to grow rapidly.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

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. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

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.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland.

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Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 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.

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Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. But even such "leapfrog" innovations sometimes feel like patchwork solutions to much more foundational problems.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. That''s not right. Pick people carefully.

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Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

At the moment that a disruptive innovation crosses into the mainstream market and establishes itself as a viable competitor, the third stage in a disruptive innovation's life cycle. In 2012 Square received a significant round of funding , and formed an innovative deal with Starbucks (which included an investment of $25 million).

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Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications Innovation Fashion 8

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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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Important as the technology and expertise may be, we find that most companies should focus first on high-quality data, process, people, and culture. Build "data to discovery to dollars" processes. Create processes to put data work across the enterprise. So where to begin? It requires concerted effort across the organization.

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Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Take Susan, the CEO of a small telecommunications firm. Her team had found ingenious ways to shave costs and innovative ways to add value for the client. Failure is sometimes lauded as a key to successful innovation, but it takes a psychic toll on the manager. She was enrolled in my MBA course when she received some bad news.

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Telecommunications Hedge Video Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Enter Henry Ford, who revolutionized the industry with his manufacturing innovations , lowering the price of cars from $2,000 in 1908 to just $260 by 1925 — an 87% reduction! Knowledge and technology have advanced at a such a rapid pace that today that quite a number of medical conditions can be treated using a “process” approach.

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Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

To be sure, much has been written about analysts as storytellers (see, for instance, A Data Scientist''s Real Job on HBR.org) and about creativity as part of the analytical process, but what has not been explored is the storytelling analyst actively participating in co-creating value with others. Innovation'

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Analysis Storytelling Brainstorming Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I love the story told about Sam Pitroda, then the head of C-DOT, India’s telecommunications enterprise. If some of your work is too time-consuming, try to innovate a more efficient process that hasn’t yet occurred to your boss or coworkers. Make sure your team sees you occasionally taking on these tasks.

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Team Management Constraint How To 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. And yes, it's true that social technologies typically require companies to redesign core processes. In other cases, companies worry that social media will threaten the core. But that's a good thing.

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Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Likewise, leading telecommunications and other equipment providers now have to compete by offering “network solutions” involving many products formerly sold separately. Integrating processes from autonomous units (or even separate companies) poses political and organizational challenges often greater than the technical challenges.

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Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But Apple’s technological innovativeness is not the full story. In a previous article I called this Apple the “old” Apple, a leading company that makes the entire smartphone industry grow every time it introduces a new phone by continuing the disruption process in other industries.

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Industry Supply Chain Innovation Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 11

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. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Economists and big data.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

More on: Managing yourself , Morale , Work life balance Join the Discussion | More by This Author | Email/Share Previous The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement Next How to Turn Garbage into Gold Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email.

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

In addition to lifting some travel restrictions, American financial institutions can establish accounts with their Cuban counterparts and telecommunication firms can export to and install equipment on the island. That said, the Obama administration has made a few changes.

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GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But how often is this qualitative feedback seen as a sturdy platform for innovation and growth? As a result they developed and successfully pitched the idea of alliance partnerships to telecommunications firms. Re-frame customer objections as new businesses.

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Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. Designing projects as learning tools is a fairly straightforward process. The severances team aimed to increase the number of land parcels processed per day by 50% in one field office in 100 days.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the case of an Asian telecommunications company that found 20 percent of its marketing budget was being squandered in markets with the lowest lifetime customer value. In addition, the two leaders need to identify disconnection points between the two groups and develop processes to bridge them.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market. Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. This landscape is evolving rapidly, in ways not even Google could foresee.

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Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

based companies that are in technology, media, cloud computing, social networking, telecommunications, e-commerce or ''big data'', for they seemingly cannot do anything else than comply with the laws — and their extreme interpretations — as they are now (i.e. the Patriot Act , FISA courts , etc). Until now, the U.S.-based

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Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

More on: Managing uncertainty , Risk management , Social media Join the Discussion | More by This Author | Email/Share Previous Google Changes the Playing Field on News Next The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

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.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Should some specific talent management practices receive greater focus than others--that is, do they exert more influence on competency of an organization''s overall talent management process? And what did they say was their biggest concern? Methodology.

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Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Consider, for example, a government payment system created in 2016 that was processing 100,000 transactions per month in October of that year, prior to the sudden demonetization. A year later, after demonetization, the same system is processing 76 million transactions per month.

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Banking Long-term Short-term System 14

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. They’re an essential part of the learning process!

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Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Each year INSEAD and WIPO team up to produce the Global Innovation Index , which aims to rank nations according to their innovative capacity and outputs. At the heart of the rankings are various institutions and institutional factors that the researchers believe underpin good innovation. Starting from a low base. Data colonies.

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Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

This infrastructure sits on top of a publicly available substructure of assets and resources — telecommunications and the Internet, for example. Infrastructure and substructure support the information, processes, applications, rules, and channels that are the face of corporate IT. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Googles proposed metatags may not provide visibility in quite the way a publisher wants, as they assume a single originating source, not a formal syndication process. Googles proposed metatags may not provide visibility in quite the way a publisher wants, as they assume a single originating source, not a formal syndication process.

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15