Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. We started writing weekly stories about emerging entrepreneurs for our innovation hub, SmartUp.life. They could imagine a new world.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Jonathan’s network was more about innovation. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. We started writing weekly stories about emerging entrepreneurs for our innovation hub, SmartUp.life. They could imagine a new world.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I will, of course, continue with my Charity and Arts connections. On with the interview.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems. Here’s the list. See what you think: 1. Leaning in will only get us so far.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

Some commentators felt the move to New Coke was a marketing gimmick to regenerate interest and sales in the brand after sales erosion due to the “Pepsi Challenge” taste test campaign. The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time. Classic Coke sales rebounded.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. There are risks of course, not least in the potential for significant income inequality if some sections of society are working more traditional hours and some are working heavily reduced hours.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It’s a popular topic and it gives you a legitimate reason to go to the golf course when the sun is shining or quit at 5 PM. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Recognizing this fundamental difference, Universal changed its marketing from promoting what it wanted consumers to experience to a testimonial to what the experience was already providing. No longer focusing on their marketing platform – “ride the movies”– they built a new strategy – “Experience an extraordinary escape at Universal.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

That word is innovation, and it’s quickly losing whatever meaning it once had. Journal writer Dennis Berman begins by citing Kellogg CEO John Bryant, the respected head of a well-run company, who was describing one of its “innovations” for 2013. an innovation, then what isn’t an innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. New products are, of course, the province of R&D teams or research partners. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Change is innovative. Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. This is an excellent way to share each other's progress and give understanding for courses of choice.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. To help guide your way through, we’ve divided the posts up by the three categories we at LDRLB tend to see the world through: leadership, innovation, and strategy. Innovation. This month’s Carnival offers an array of fresh insights for a fresh year. Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Of course, that's based on a rather broad definition from the World Bank: those who earn an income in excess of $2 a day after adjusting for purchasing power. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In this article adapted from their new book, Jerry Davis and Chris White explore what makes some companies more fertile for social innovation — that is, the ongoing (rather than one-off) initiatives that have positive social impact while promoting the core mission of a business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

What exactly are the issues that people have with Europe’s innovativeness? Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Let’s look at innovativeness. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. VCs barely invest in their own funds.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Using human-centered design methods, inspiration for the company’s signature products is drawn directly from its cadre of famous and not-so-famous practicing athletes, with whom the designers directly interact with to devise authentic performance innovations and style updates. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. and spends it in international markets. Aldi UK sales grew from $6.3 billion to $8.6

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., ” The extent of the isolation, of course, runs both ways — especially when it comes to young and old who aren’t related. Nesterly , an intergenerational homesharing service, is one of these promising innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. This strategy has been, in itself, Disney’s great breakthrough innovation. In fact, WB does have a history of innovation. When Robert Iger, Disney chair and CEO, purchased Pixar for $7.4

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. With innovative information technology, however, executives sometimes lose their rational decision approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

And while there is an abundance of courses, books, articles and opinions on the process of strategic planning, the focus is typically on an isolated process that might happen once or twice per year. In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. A strategic approach takes time.

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Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 15

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

Guest post from Michael Klassen : After three decades of working in marketing, I thought I had heard or read nearly every story of innovation and entrepreneurship out there. Today we fondly refer to these extraordinary American innovators as Haight-Ashbury hippies. Who were these people and how did they do it?

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The current social strategy of many Marketing and Ad Agencies goes something like: “It doesn’t matter if the content is good, as long as we get a celebrity to tweet it, the thing will go viral!” Yet any attempt to market to these hyperactive, frenzied, texting balls of estrogen would be rejected and loathed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

—Andy O''Connell Justin Bieber's Involved, of Course The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History Businessweek For years, every CEO had a BlackBerry. While we''re all familiar with the decline of Research in Motion, this oral history contains first-hand accounts of RIM''s glory days of innovation, followed by inglorious missteps.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

healthcare system have taken at least one well-worn market-based path: strive for economies of scale. My colleagues Leonard Marcus, Barry Dorn, and I met three such physicians in the course of researching our book, Renegotiating Healthcare: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration. There are, of course, challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Light dawns on the marketing spend!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies). Forget bureaucrats, fancy lobbies, and marketing expense!

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How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Will badges require successful course completion? What do they all have in common?

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Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

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