Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

He consumes art and music at the rate he does books, but unlike most critics he doesn't sniff that markets have either ruined culture or brought it low. In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native." The work is priced on Amazon.com at $3.99

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). While these factors will remain important, in the next decade China must put greater reliance on productivity growth — the ability to get greater output from existing labor and capital stocks.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. 3) Build On a Foundation of Trust and Self-Organization -.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The main case for trade, though, was always that it would improve overall welfare by allowing a greater variety of products to be produced more efficiently. If this new paper shows anything, it’s that we can’t just assume that more competition and open markets will deliver new ideas. Under the right circumstances, they can.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Back in the early 1990s, when Intel was seeking to "pace" the market for PCs, it introduced a set of standards for desktop PCs that commoditized all of the hardware components beyond the microprocessor. Taiwanese suppliers fought over the privilege of bringing new technology to Apple, but nobody wanted to bring exciting things to HP.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. Productive Paranoia. So we should expect these leaders to be highly creative — to create new, wonderful products. Markets down?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Are we going to have to work really hard to differentiate the product or products that result from the acquisition? Consider the pharma industry'sdeals standard practice of buying products or companies chasing known therapeutic targets. HP acquired Compaq in 2002 to give it synergy and mass to compete with Dell in PCs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

What is interesting is Google's philosophy of launching early and quickly, and their perhaps too-quick closure of some products. The product was announced with formidable press and very high expectations amidst the belief that it would revolutionize e-mail and other forms of communication. Google Answers (April 2002 to November 2006).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1 billion worth of buybacks from 1986 through 2002. Economy Financial markets Labor National competitiveness Automotive'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. based product and services businesses that also tended to manufacture and deliver their products via U.S.-based based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Both offer important lessons in social marketing — but mouthwash may still have one key advantage. The ads were effective because they focused on relationships among consumers, not the consumer-product relationship or the product itself. Information & technology Social platforms Technology' Let me explain.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Directness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). Eventually the company is likely to be out of touch with changing market requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

As advertisers and their agencies continue to experiment with the technological possibilities, it's not hard to imagine reaching the ultimate end, depicted in the 2002 Tom Cruise film Minority Report. And that's a potential blow to advertisers for several important reasons: Shared experience shapes our perception of products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. The key difference is the degree to which reps have taken advantage of new technology (largely built into their CRM system) to share and learn from one another.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” A new business model may turn on designing a new product for an unmet need or on a process innovation. ” Well, maybe not then.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2018

Debbie Laskey developed her brand marketing and communications expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the nonprofit arena, and the insurance industry. All aspects of business have been affected from technology to human resources to marketing.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Not only was this a shift in company focus and customer orientation, but it put high-volume tire production and sales as the only priorities. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education.

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Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. “Once a firm ‘invents’ good management it will then grow rapidly and dominate the market,” Bloom argues.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Failure to launch the right side.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. For years, Blockbuster seemed unbeatable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). In effect, service was productized, which showed up in the higher margins earned. The CEC was dissolved.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. They pointed out that we were a very young company, but our market value was $45 billion—more than the entire U.S. At that point we were a single technology company. In 2002, we had an offsite strategy session, and we had some consultants come in.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. This, however, is only after it has become firmly established in the South African market — and that is a point in itself.

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