The Idolbuster

JANUARY 17, 2013

Ever been on a project that is under time pressure to make a launch date? For example, when Apple launched the iPad mini in November 2012, it did not have the retina display. Sabina” was a product manager working in lifescience industry who was part of a project that had to make that very choice.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

But that doesn't mean savvy marketers aren't supremely well-positioned to embrace slacktivism as an innovative outreach to customers and communities alike. Health care, nutrition and energy consumption are only the most obvious marketing opportunities for Innovative Self Quantification Marketing Opportunities.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. Young leaders engage in an “action learning” project in which they work on real-life problems facing the firm.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

So what can we expect in 2012 in a world that seems to grow ever connected by the hour? Also, as part of a marketing campaign, Domino's Pizza posted feedback — unfiltered feedback — on a large billboard in Times Square, bringing together real opinions from real people pulled from a digital source and displayed in the real world.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. Even if investors can now reach entrepreneurs anywhere, the aforementioned ‘home bias’ is a natural occurrence in the public and private securities markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. billion on these social sites by 2012. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Still skeptical?

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The development process continues and we introduce the “Amalgatome” in the middle of 2011 to a narrow market of fifteen primary processors with an annual sales potential of $2.76 No part of the medical project has been easy and we tried and failed innumerable times in mostly small ways. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Procter & Gamble wanted to become “the most digital company on the planet” in 2012, but ran into growth challenges in a difficult economy. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves. A prime example is Netflix.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% Of the executives who report starting such a project, only 40.2%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As mobile devices and borderless technology networks like Facebook, Google, and Tencent increasingly connect billions of people around the world, everything about the pace, profile, and application of modern media is changing. The cost of this data limits what marketers can do, especially in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

They might make a targeted acquisition here or there, form an alliance now and again, or license in some specialized technology, but by and large they made their own drugs, supporting big, fully staffed research labs, which they would then market themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. The popular web browser Mozilla Firefox , the image format PNG , and Apache , the world's most popular web server, are all examples of open-source technology in common use. Everyone wants a little something for free.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. Keurig’s founders started from scratch when they created their proprietary coffeemaker and K-cup technology. was designed to protect the company’s earlier K-Cup technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. ” But it’s far from moneyball when it comes to event marketing. But it needn’t be that way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

This same principle applies more broadly to clean technology; to compete, it must outperform incumbent technologies on these dimensions. The first critical step already under way toward this fair competition is to strip away the subsidies that have distorted both the clean and conventional energy markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

So far, 2012 has been another banner year for the 'tyranny of success' as once great companies slide ever closer to the abyss. Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation. He knew IBM needed to become what we call an "Ambidextrous Organization."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. project management), specialized skills (e.g., First, some context. .’s

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues. Consider the implications just for remote workers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. So what is happening now?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. How else did the companies projecting the greatest ROI from Big Data differ from underperformers?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

Starting in 2012, my colleagues and I began taking a closer look at the hands-on experience of data scientists. At Stanford, I conducted 35 interviews of data analysts from 25 organizations across a variety of sectors, including health care, retail, marketing, and ?nance. IT management Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% It would take 80% faster productivity growth to fully compensate for the projected decline. In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025. over the next 50 years. We disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. This bold strategic leap was, we found, in part facilitated by Nokia’s newly appointed board who actively attended to top managers’ emotions in 2012-2013.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The market will decide that. The beauty of the market is that it reveals the market participants' collective estimate of the price. s carbon market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“You get more done and you advance the projects you care about and are responsible for,” which means “you’re more likely to be noticed, get promoted, and receive raises.” The new Work Market website will go live this spring. ” Jitterbit had its first cloud-based release in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

This globality phenomenon is itself surprisingly global: the Berlin and Beijing startup scenes, for example, appear almost as technologically transnational as Boston’s and the Bay Area’s. from 2012 to 2014. Indeed, assessing an innovator’s GQ—the Globality Quotient—has become a standard market test.

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