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. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology' Here’s the list.

Management 18

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

For senior marketers, it is a very humbling thought. What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? What if, in short, what your company really needs is not a marketer, but a data scientist ?

Marketing 12

Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

On Monday, Europe''s largest derivatives market shut down for an hour because of a glitch. Now that the world is dependent on the internet, economies and markets are bound by these limits as well. The stock market in particular is at risk of hitting a major breakpoint. Pushed past the breakpoint, all systems risk collapse.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Long-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Forbes’s mathematical approach, which calculates an “Innovation Premium” baked into a stock price, suffers from market capriciousness. Editorial driven approaches at MIT Technology Review and Fast Company can trip over hype (recall how Fast Company in 2009 named “Team Obama” its most innovative company ?).

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work. labor force over the past three decades.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Some innovative local governments have realized this and are using technology and a customer-focused mind-set to innovate and better serve citizens, whether for setting up a business or renewing a driver’s license. That’s where advocacy marketing, finding key influencers to help drive your message across, can help.

Technology 8

Technology Audience Call Center Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." You do it by asking, what customer problem are we trying to solve, and how do we solve it in a far more efficient manner? The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye.

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment).

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. No doubt you are aware of the explosion of the market – some call it a movement – in handcrafted products.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." You do it by asking, what customer problem are we trying to solve, and how do we solve it in a far more efficient manner? The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. market for personal computers. Three Images/Getty Images.

Strategy 10

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology has prompted tremendous change in the advertising industry—change that would have been inconceivable even a decade ago. People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. Automation will take hold.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Early adopters in these verticals are using the IoT to pioneer new product areas and to find efficiencies that save money or reduce demand for resources. Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 Australia and China.

Early Adopters 11

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

But that doesn’t mean that new technologies aren’t going to usher in a lot of disruption to the financial system. Traditional economists (and, yes, that label could well describe both of us) often ignore a crucial separation between money (the “what”) and the payment technology (the “how).

Banking 8

Banking Technology System Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work. Even if this were possible—and it may be as futile as King Canute’s attempts to turn the incoming tide—it would mean foregoing the beneficial productivity effects the technology would bring. Other options are also less than desirable.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Since the birth of e-commerce, marketing experts have disagreed about the future role of brands. Some have predicted that digital technologies will hasten the demise of brands because customers will have ready access to information they need to make purchase decisions, and “brand” will therefore become less relevant.

Brand 8

Brand Brand Valuation Power Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet compared to great technological inventions of the past, it is also a colossal economic disappointment. The technologies of the past had massive new job creation effects that swamped displacement effects. Consider the integrated circuit, which first appeared on the market in 1961. I’m talking about jobs. per year.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. trillion euros.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

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.

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

years in 2013. Faced with such dramatic shifts in their market, many insurers have fallen into the classic trap of trying to figure out how to sell their existing products, rather than creating new sales engagement models that focus on customers’ real needs. Increasing efficiency. years in 1950 to 81.1

Insurance 8

Insurance Policies Productivity Products 8

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. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

MIT Technology Review didn't pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 "disruptors," the magazine mixed stalwarts such as General Electric and IBM with up-and-comers, Square and Coursera. Operating efficiency (sales over assets). Investment efficiency (ideas explored divided by total capital and operational investment).

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, three trends gained purchase and this year, they’ll ascend. . Kleiner Perkins analyst Mary Meeker showed in her influential 2013 D11 address that “wearable computing is coming on strong, faster than the typical 10 year cycle” of tech trends. The second trend is the historic growth in “ wearables.

Trends 8

Trends Kleiner Supply Chain Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Yes, data helps us dematerialize and find efficiencies in all aspects of our economy. But we have to do it new ways now, with clean technologies. Sustainability Data Operations'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

But in the world of new "sharing economy" models that generate efficiency gains, theirs is just the tip of the iceberg. True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. This "reengineering" of consumption is a natural consequence of the ongoing consumerization of digital technologies.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. billion in 2013. But is all of that changing? We think so.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. decline on the back of a flat 2013 and +0.7% markets was to systematically reduce prevailing price levels.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8