Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Two years ago, Swedish communications technology giant Ericsson found itself looking for a way to explain the value it saw in the Internet of Things. Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live.

Education 13

Education Human Resources Participative Training 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Stanford Ovshinsky 1922-2012. Mr. Ovshinsky used the same basic insight decades later to produce flexible photovoltaic materials, printing them on film on a machine the length of a football field. The company was a world leader in the technology but recently declared bankruptcy amid down times in the U.S. photovoltaic industry.

Energy 102

Energy Library Film Engineering 102

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain.

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

When Jobs was the last and only buyer standing in 1986 when George Lucas had to sell off the Pixar graphics arm of LucasFilms (for $10 million), he never expected the company to ever make money on animated films. Steve Jobs was brilliant about understanding how technology vectors were evolving, yet even he screwed up royally, and often.

Film 8

Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Napster, Amazon, and the Apple store have annihilated Tower Records and Musicland; digital cameras replaced film and then smartphones upended camera makers.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Valve Corporation's game platform, Steam , developed an anti-cheat solution in 2006 after it detected 10,000 cheating attempts in a single week. As of 2012, it had terminated more than 1.5 Here's the solution we proposed: almost any online company, particularly a game developer, has vast amounts of unstructured data at its fingertips.

Airlines 8

Airlines Film Industry Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a 600-page proposed rulemaking , the SEC moved to implement key provisions of the 2012 Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (or JOBS Act). Kickstarter funds everything from art to food to fashion, films, and hardware. Securities and Exchange Commission took a major step toward allowing crowdfunded equity financing.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8