Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. in the most radical technologies.

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Innovation GDP Telecommunications Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I was a panelist on a session on Reverse Innovation during the recently concluded World Economic Forum at Davos. The conventional wisdom is that innovations originate in rich countries and the resulting products are sold horizontally in other developed countries and then sent downhill to developing countries. Not really.

Innovation 15

Innovation Telecommunications Globalization GDP 15

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Today, technology is making all business activity more transparent. 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.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

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

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.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms? For much of the 1980s and 1990s, many parts of the startup ecosystem focused on communications, technology, and health care. And companies like Google, Apple, and even telecommunications titans are eying the industry.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

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." It's disruption in its most basic form.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 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. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Nevertheless, we steadfastly supported the venture.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device.

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Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The technology community has become accustomed to Musk pushing the boundaries. 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. There are exceptions, of course, like mobile technology.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 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 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. How can you build your organization’s ability to sense and respond to rapid improvements in technology?

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Moreover, it forgot that it will continue to do well in China and India not just by keeping costs low but also by developing new technologies.

Globalization 13

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. To get the most out of social technologies, known collectively as Enterprise 2.0,

Media 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

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. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure. Innovate ferociously. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 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.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. 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! But the most innovative Indian hospitals are doing much more.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

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 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Multi-billion dollar media companies, broadcasters, and cable oligopolies are having to compete for both eyeballs and revenues with a plethora of multinational technology and telecommunications giants who know more about viewer behavior. Megamergers won’t solve for this disruption.

Video 8

Video Telecommunications Early Adopters Advertising 8

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. Create a technology engine that powers the front lines. But for all the potential technology provides, it’s important not to lose sight of what the point is.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2020

An ambitious new law is catalyzing innovation.

Tools 15

Tools Innovation Telecommunications Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Others, including technology and telecommunications companies, are major customers of — and suppliers to — those industries. Collaborations among energy producers and users, for example, can help scale technologies such as solar PV and wind power that require only negligible amounts of water.

Energy 8

Energy Price Telecommunications Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology.

Books 13

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

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. As a data-driven culture permeates more broadly, an enterprise's abilities to take bold, innovative, concerted action on increasingly larger challenges also grow. So where to begin?

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

based telecoms, technology companies and internet platforms such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and even Dropbox. based technology companies is at stake here, as is the future of U.S./EU The utter disrespect with which U.S. government, or U.S.-based the Patriot Act , FISA courts , etc). no power, and no rights.

Globalization 9

Globalization Technology Information Technology Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Fourteen years ago, Darren Entwistle arrived as a young CEO (he is now Executive Chair) and immediately began transforming the regional telecommunications player into a global entity. But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products. billion to $11.7

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Many technologies, such as computers, copiers, fax machines, and other office equipment are rapidly converging. Likewise, leading telecommunications and other equipment providers now have to compete by offering “network solutions” involving many products formerly sold separately. Innovation'

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Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

One software design firm we studied had a long-time partner that was trying to figure out how to hire and develop an "in house" group to manage network and technology hardware issues. But how often is this qualitative feedback seen as a sturdy platform for innovation and growth? Re-frame customer objections as new businesses.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But Apple’s technological innovativeness is not the full story. Think about it this way: Most health apps that you can find in the App Store are a technological marvel. Apple, Samsung, and the others are stuck in a battle of sustaining innovations, which is about classic competition on who makes a better phone.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Innovation Maturity 8

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. Government Information & technology Risk management'

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

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. Google uses a different approach to working with multiple external parties.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Although well-intentioned, these programs often have the unintended consequences of benefiting the wrong businesses, favoring sub-optimal technology, and creating market distortion. Picture something like a rotational program for innovation. They do not decrease the cost to the entrepreneur if his venture fails.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Licensing Telecommunications Incubator 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S. Technology solutions that help accelerate improvements of Zimbabwe’s decaying infrastructure will also be in high demand.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8