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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

In 2011, Kodak made the list of Top 10 Fortune 500 Employers With Older Workers, called out for employing a disproportionately high percentage of mature workers. This generation is the first to be raised in a post-industrial era driven by technology. I believe the answer is yes. So how do we lead this generation of rookie talent?

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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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There Will Be Oil, But At What Price?

Harvard Business Review

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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What Xerox PARC Learned About Executing on Open Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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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Don’t Let Your Company Get Trapped by Success

Harvard Business Review

firms struggle more than ever to maintain this balance and in particular to maintain exploration as they grow and mature. Apple succeeded in forging the initial ground-breaking deals with the five major record labels in 2002 which underpinned its disruptive business model, thanks to its large user base and its technological credibility.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. Prior to 2002, when Sam Palmisano became CEO, IBM had a series of feuding fiefdoms — 170 country units — each with its own policies, procedures, and processes.