Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

To give a couple of examples: in the more classic, regulated utilities industries such as electricity, gas, water, telecommunications, regulations on pricing or on competition can have immediate impact on value. By gaming the system for short-term gains, they destroyed decades of trust overnight.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. The innovator's job is now to create wins across the board. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

Collaborative innovation is a hot topic in the B2C space, where it overlaps with crowdsourcing, but we see B2B players taking an interest as well. Nonetheless, innovating with customers should work well in B2B, as it should give companies a deeper knowledge of their customers and promote a trusting relationship.

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B2B Innovation Company Workshop 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 9

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 9

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. Innovation' That''s not right.

Ries 8

Ries Telecommunications Business Model Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Apple is certainly known for its strong preference for internal innovation. There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios. Is that fair?

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

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. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure. In countries where governments rarely know their citizens because there are few trusted identification systems, most African banks built their businesses on top of shaky data infrastructures.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Elon Musk, the South Africa-born entrepreneur, recently unveiled his proposals for the Hyperloop , a groundbreaking high-speed transportation system. 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.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

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. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

But chronic conditions, end-of-life care, and an aging society will bankrupt the United States if it doesn’t make dramatic changes to its health care system. 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!

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. And most of us revert to tried and true solutions — the enemy of breakthrough strategies and new innovations.

Stress 15

Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

These aren't controversial production-side subsidies (of the kind that have been challenged as contravening international trade agreements) but rather incentivizing domestic subsidies intended to help Chinese citizens and organizations to purchase solar systems at an affordable price. This week, the share price of Trina Solar Ltd.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

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 finance.

Strategy 12

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Instead of manipulating the tax code to encourage startups once they are profitable, we should do everything we can to remove these early costs in the system. Picture something like a rotational program for innovation. Entrepreneurs building businesses in telecommunications could predict the next wave of disruption for the FCC.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Licensing Telecommunications Incubator 14

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. 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. Innovation' More and more business customers have quit buying stand-alone products and have started buying integrated solutions.

Telecommunications 111

Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

” 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. Machinery, seeds and irrigation systems will likely witness a surge in demand. billion in 1997 to U.S. billion a decade later.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Take this example: One night Tom attended a celebration for a team in a telecommunications company that had drastically improved performance after implementing a new data quality measurement and control system. This last point is driven home over and over. He asked one woman how the new measurements had impacted her work. Together.".

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Just as government and industry coordinated the telecommunications response after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the order enlists both public and private entities in assuring that critical infrastructure is continuously monitored and protected from attack. media companies. Certainly, the environment is complex.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres how Antoin Murphy , one of the few scholars to have studied these strikes, which took place in the 1970s, describes it: "a highly personalized credit system without any definite time horizon for the eventual clearance of debits and credits substituted for the existing institutionalized banking system."

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

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. Cuba desperately needs to do away with its dual currency system. That said, the Obama administration has made a few changes.

GDP 8

GDP Telecommunications Scenario Planning Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But Apple’s technological innovativeness is not the full story. In smartphones, Samsung generally hasn’t disrupted other industries the way Apple has, instead usually taking a free ride on Apple’s innovations with cheaper versions that emphasize standard product features, most notably the screen size.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Innovation Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It described the newspapers own request under the Freedom of Information Act for the New York Department of Educations performance ratings of the roughly 12,000 public city school teachers in its system.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

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. So they created a new system for their distributors that reduced paint job defects by 49 percent.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Just as poison ivy does not directly cause irritation, but spoofs our immune system into thinking our own skin is the enemy, careless reporting can cause more harm than good. The tragedy here is that, as with poison ivy and the immune system, there really is no one to blame.

Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

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 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Industry GDP Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Over the months that followed, more than one billion people participated in a “reboot” of the country’s financial and monetary system. 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.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. trillion this year.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India. In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. Bharti looks nothing like other telecoms. In the U.S.,

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Second, the new system depends on publishers playing ball using the metatags. Second, the new system depends on publishers playing ball using the metatags. 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.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

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

JUNE 12, 2013

Home services (security systems, maintenance). Telecommunications (phone, Internet, cable TV). Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center. They include: Financial services (i.e., credit cards). Insurance (home, life, auto). Education (online education). Automotive (car quotes, loans).

Advertising 8

Advertising Call Center Brand Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8