Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. Building the service required decisive leadership to invest in the innovation, negotiate across boundaries, address issues, and engage hundreds of people in making the vision real.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

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. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. While we are only in the early days of the open data movement, innovative uses of data will empower new approaches to improving outcomes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 cut of sales.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management. Information & technology Internet'

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. Why is that?

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is a conversation about the increasing importance of information technology and the role it must assume in every enterprise, regardless of size, industry or geography. All of these ideas are drastically changing how we organize to accomplish the necessary work, and in turn how we manage those organizational structures and resources.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology. With innovative information technology, however, executives sometimes lose their rational decision approaches.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Use technology to identify and address barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. The manager of a large analytics team at a big Internet company believes that removing analysts from business units and functions and centralizing them was critical to success. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Unfortunately, health care as an industry continues hiring far faster than demand is growing, adding 119,000 new workers in the first half of 2013, for example, with little increase in patient volume. For example, new innovative reimbursement models aim to reward providers for lowering health care costs on the supply side.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. In fact, for many managers, it may be the approach that defines strategy. Firms deploying a visionary approach also follow a distinct thought flow.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

When asked how he managed each day to confront the vast ocean that lay ahead, he answered, “I never jump into the water thinking about the entire ocean, I just cut it into small pieces. In 1998, Ben Lecomte became the first person to swim across the Atlantic. It took him 73 days to complete the 3,716-mile journey. How did they do it?

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Cost Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production. Having navigated globalization and rapid technological change, businesses may be scuppered by the social and political responses to them.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10