Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

AT&T's recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will invite hellfire from telecom regulators who fantasize over a different market structure, in which 17 mom-and-pop carriers serve the masses with tender love and care. I tend to care about prices: Will this merger affect my monthly wireless bill? The answer is likely no.

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Wireless Price Marketing Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Wireless connectivity. When they get to the car, they wave their membership card over a sensor on the windshield (the card and sensor communicate wirelessly), which triggers a wireless query back to the company's database to make sure the user is OK to take the car. Wireless Connectivity. What are they? Microprocessors.

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Technology Wireless Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

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Mass Marketing Technology Contract Manufacturing Insurance 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Hiring and grooming local talent in key markets makes plenty of sense, but as IESE Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat explains in McKinsey Quarterly, firms that rely so heavily on localization that they no longer groom expatriates are being shortsighted. "And The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton).

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Wireless How To McKinsey Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Consider the ebook market, in which Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook , and Apple's iPad have been in a technological arms race that has been oblivious to any economic slowdown. For example, most cell phones have a market life cycle of less than a year , according to David Chamberlain, principal wireless analyst for In-Stat Research.

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Innovation Wireless Discount Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

It's entirely probable that as smart phones become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, wireless advertising will link directly to the shopping data. The digitized shopping cart will undoubtedly give rise to a more flexible retail store — one which constantly adapts to the ever-changing moods and trends of the shoppers.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Smartphones, smart TVs and watches have become the in-thing and trend among the young and the old. This is an impeccable digital marketing strategy that has worked miracles for many businesses. Using your smart TV app, you can undertake digital marketing opportunities such as video calling and reach out to your suppliers and customers.

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Wireless Video How To Marketing 72

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. consumers are just being introduced to Apple Pay, mobile money services like MPesa and MTN Money have been flourishing in African markets. These trends are not limited to customers. Finance Global business Technology'

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Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Both these trends support the notion that the costs of successful business model innovation are rising over time. An example: delivering paid sports content over a 4G network with segmented advertising that is both location-dependent and paid for through betting is a breakthrough idea yet to be delivered in any market.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

It's an emerging trend. Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. For instance, some participants are seeing if treadmill desks measurably boost output as they write computer code or marketing copy. In particular, two classes of auto-analytics tools are easy to find nowadays.

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Health Care Participative Wireless Objective 8

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. Insight Center.

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Health Care Insurance Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. So the challenge was to have the broad marketing strategies with local adaptations.” Currency really had a big effect.”

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Think of it this way: Based on the technology-enabled hard trends that are already in place, over the next five short years we will transform how we sell, market, communicate, collaborate, innovate, train, and educate. Doing all of this from an iPad was impossible just a few months ago. And if you don''t do it, someone else will.

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CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. 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. Its market cap has steadily grown over the same period and stood at around US$30 billion as of 2010. The trend is spreading.

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Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

And yet recent trends are proving that their best just isn't good enough. This will create market forces for improvements that don't fully exist today. Given this complexity , it's a minor miracle that hospitals function as well as they do, and a tribute to the dedication of administrative and professional staff.

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Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

There are three trends are behind this shift: The ease of innovation and its decreasing cost mean that start-ups now face the same short-term pressures that have constrained innovation at large companies. Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. Google’s move is part of a broader trend towards the “fission” of bloated business structures, as evidenced by the increasing incidence of corporate splits and spins.

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Women on Business

MARCH 18, 2013

Guest Post by Elizabeth Dillon of Digital Marketing NOW (Learn more about Elizabeth at the end of this post). If not, you could be throwing away significant money on ineffective marketing initiatives. To maximize your marketing and, ultimately, your revenue, you must understand your customer’s lifetime value (CLV).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

For example, solutions provider Oracle built huge market share by supporting multiple platforms like Windows and Linux. We saw a similar trend in the software industry, where Microsoft’s strong position in operating systems helped it dominate the web browser market. This does not mean that there is no room for startups.

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Software Industry Incentives System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream. Sometimes this shift results in the whole-sale replacement of the previous market leader; sometimes it creates a completely parallel market (which typically ends up being larger than the previous market due to the democratizing power of disruption).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. For example, when Huawei expanded their 3G market in Europe, they noticed that European carriers expected base stations to be more compact, easier to install, greener, and more energy efficient, while offering wider coverage.

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Succession Golden Handcuff IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

The mobile phone industry is massive, with close to 2 billion devices shipped annually and total spending on wireless-related services of more than $1.6 Sending sound through the airwaves, received in a radio, furthered this trend, enabling people to hear live sound remotely, or hear a wider variety of pre-recorded music.

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