Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2004, there was a severe earthquake and subsequent tsunami that resulted in profound effects to several Asian countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. This is where technology can save the day. Today’s mobile autonomous robotic cart (MARC) technology takes automation a step further.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Product pioneers face more risk, but can reap big rewards when an innovation proves successful. Research I conducted together with John Joseph of Duke University shows that both approaches can be successful — what matters most is not simply timing but whether a company tailors its innovation strategy to whichever approach it adopts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. In more and more businesses, physical objects are no longer the primary basis for innovation and differentiation. They come second to innovations in computer code.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Physician burnout is a growing problem for all health care systems in the United States. As part of our work researching high-performing primary care systems , we discovered a system-wide approach launched by Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) in 2004 that unburdens primary care physicians.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

to 1% per year if not for joint ventures that allowed for transfers of knowledge and technology, as opposed to domestic innovation. It implies that TFP driven by innovation and technological progress (independent of foreign investment) accounts for about 5 to 14% of GDP growth. percentage points of the 7.3%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. Fostering innovation. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The Xbox 360 had the advantage of beating the other two consoles to market by a year, while the Wii introduced a novel motion-sensing wireless controller that allowed for significant innovation in gameplay. Cloud is one of these perennial ‘right around the corner’ technologies,” according to IDC’s Ward.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business. Goldman used its power to scale to get to market quickly, assembling a pipeline of services, investing in sophisticated measurement systems and developing a global core curriculum.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies).

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology. Discover suffered a similar setback in 2004, when Walmart shifted its credit card partnership to MasterCard. which permitted no other card in its popular stores.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. This approach addresses the many shortcomings of our previous initiatives.".

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Once they understood the rules and their underlying rationale, ALL's employees generated a series of innovative proposals based on what they had to work with. That system was efficient, but the new management team decided that, at this moment in its history, the company needed adaptability more than efficiency. Fostering coordination.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Americans are both undertreated and overtreated in a health care system that wastes up to $1 trillion a year and delivers profoundly uneven quality: Current estimates indicate that preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Electronic medical records can help correct these systemic defects.

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Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The innovation came about because Laird aspired to surf a deepwater reef break on the north shore of Maui called Peahi, or Jaws, where waves can reach 120 feet high. But coffee has seen other innovations, too. Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. coffee sector.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Reacting quickly, Google regained control of the Android system by restricting access to difficult-to-replicate services such as mapping and by shifting important application programming interfaces (APIs) to the proprietary Google Play Store. It was the digital payment system eBay pushed before it gave up and acquired PayPal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. Through the tax system, business interests that gain from these investments return funds to the government. Social innovation. Employee incentives.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In 2017 the European Commission published a report highlighting the importance of boosting innovation across the European Union, after statistics emerged highlighting the clear east-west divide in entrepreneurship across Europe. They also examine the strength of the innovation ecosystems in various countries. Fertile ground.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

health care system that won’t change. As a result, regardless of how the law evolves, tremendous opportunities will remain for consumers, medical providers, health care payers, and investors to shape and improve the health care system. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. Development programs must evolve from a static, closed-system approach.

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