Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

Wireless carriers predict how likely it is you will cancel and defect to a competitor — possibly before you have even conceived a plan to do so — based on factors such as dropped calls, your phone usage, billing information, and whether your contacts have already defected. The system grades as accurately as human graders.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The growth in digital twins has been driven by technological improvements in areas such as the internet of things and wireless connectivity. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 The advent of 5G and continued improvements in artificial intelligence promise to make the technology even more powerful. Will the metaverse fare better?

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. I reached out to every leadership blogger I could– talking with them about their approach, their challenges, and most importantly, what they were doing that led to success.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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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.” Uber doesn’t.

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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

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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CO2

JULY 6, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. We have gone back to our labs and retested everything, and the results are the same— the iPhone 4’s wireless performance is the best we have ever shipped.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. US HHS Secretary Sebelius also indicates "Health literacy is needed to make health reform a success in the USA."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

That's one of my favorite guideposts for sustainable business success, and Verizon is my latest poster child for this truth of business strategy (and life). wireless service provider , is now adding the iPhone to its lineup. The game isn't over, and adding Verizon's other innovations might even change the game. They fumble.

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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

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 7, 2016

All too often, much-touted “revolutionary” innovations offer only incremental benefits at best; at worst, they are a costly distraction. Due in part to this innovative approach, Fabletics drew more monthly unique website visitors on average in both 2014 and 2015 than competitors Lululemon and Athleta.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

While this program wasn’t specifically targeted at Millennials, its success was driven by the passion for connection with the greater good that this generation is known to value. These enhance opportunities for both innovation and Millennial engagement. Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business.

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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

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

JULY 4, 2012

The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton). Demand for both devices and bandwidth is sharply on the rise; the field is awash in innovation and forecasts call for expansion touching all corners of the globe for years to come. UPWARDLY MOBILE. You'd think these would be a mobile company's salad days.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The Journal offers some numbers: The trend has been a boon for companies like Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. wireless carriers brought in $22 billion in revenue selling services such as mobile email and Web browsing in 2007, according to analysts at UBS AG. By 2011, data revenue had jumped to $59 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

You don't make wireless Airplay speakers. It's not a coincidence that the most wildly successful marketer on the planet , Apple, is also the most shameless marketer. You let people enjoy their favorite movies and shows, from any device, on any screen in their home. Be bold, be shameless. Technology marketing needs to be shameless.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Its success demonstrates the potential of digital health services, and its approach can serve as a model for applying such services to other chronic diseases. Emphasis on outcomes.

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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.

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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. Despite its impressive specs, the PS3 was widely viewed, according to the case, as too expensive.

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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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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

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. Second, wireless licenses were made flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system. This has left little credit for the country’s private sector, exerting a dampening effect on business activity and growth.

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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. The great business successes have all come from solving some seemingly insurmountable problem.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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. New technologies — including low-orbit satellites and “fixed wireless” — were developed for remote and rural locations.

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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. Second, implement a culture of innovation across all grades, functions, and regions. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

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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

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. For example, AT&T had to spend almost $18 billion in a single year to upgrade its wireless networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic.

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