Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

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. The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher! .”

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. Futurists call them “weak signals.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Economic Outlook for 2014 and Beyond, January 13, 2014, About.com), and our own research , “CEO Briefing 2014 –The Global Agenda: Competing in a Digital World,” found widespread optimism in the C-Suite about companies’ growth prospects. Enthusiasm for digital technologies is not lacking.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar. In addition, stoves are difficult to transport from demo to demo.

Marketing 8

Marketing Microfinance Retail Development 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

China is already the largest market for robots in the world, based on volume. We examined their automation potential today — what’s possible by adapting demonstrated technologies — as well as the potential similarities and differences in how automation could take hold in the future. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

GDP 12

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

I never would have experienced any of that — I never would have discovered that technology could be creative, I never would have started my career in tech, joined Google, led Youtube — if I had tried to stick to a specific plan that I had made when I was your age. … Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market.

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

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. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Look at WhatsApp, which had 55 employees (35 of them engineers) and reached more than 450 million users when it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. Today, while the number of users has doubled, its engineering workforce has grown only to 50. Smart headcount growth that optimizes technology is essential. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. Strategic talent constraints are typically described in vast interconnected global supply chains and high-tech knowledge jobs like software engineers and research scientists.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Engineering Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Midway through 2014, GE Appliances launched FirstBuild — a GE-equipped innovation lab and micro-factory — to augment the strengths of a long-established company with those of an entrepreneurial startup. Sponsored by DXC Technology. What GE Appliances gains is the powerful advantage of being first to market.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Marketing Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. The ultimate goal is to signal to the market that the digital acquisition is part of a series of moves that will help you adapt and win in the digitalization of your industry. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. The M&A markets are frothy, corporations are investing in Silicon Valley labs, and even PhDs looking for jobs in business schools are finding it tough to find homes without “innovation” somewhere in their background. They also share another quality uncommon among peers. And they lasted.

Long-term 9

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Yet, unlike money, the market for personal data is relatively embryonic. A 2014 global survey by SafeNet found that nearly two-thirds of consumers said they would stop or avoid using a company that had experienced a data breach. technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

The EU has spent twenty years trying to create the kind of market conditions needed for explosive growth seen elsewhere in the digital economy. Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. So far, nothing has worked. Of the 15 largest public Internet companies today, none are European. And quickly.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

A company’s goal should be to integrate its arsenal of traditional and emerging digital marketing tools and specify where the field salesperson should be involved, if at all. Fortunately, B2B executives can draw upon sound guidance when reformulating their sales and marketing efforts. Nothing could be further from the truth.

B2B 8

B2B Forrester Telemarketing Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

CEO 8

CEO Marketing Span of Control Sports 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

You’ve got funding and the blessing of your CEO and Board to go ahead with this high-profile “experiment” Your venture could be a growth engine for your corporation’s otherwise large but slow and steady core business. There is no mention of margin, hence profitability is not one of the main drivers for 2014.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Analysis Objective 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. Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. billion people.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process. About two-thirds were in B2B businesses.). Will it be bundled with something else?

Price 9

Price Productivity Products Simon 9

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. year from 2005-2014, with the slowdown starting well before the global financial crisis. Many US firms in many U.S.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 Fix or kill?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile, and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. They had lots of these projects. The result?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The EU’s antitrust regulator charged Google for abuse of its position as the dominant search engine to promote its own businesses, while the European Parliament even voted in favor of breaking up Google. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. billion in 2014. tech companies.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014. And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activists’ interventions are often described, favorably or not depending on your point of view, as slashing and burning, taking out cost, and engaging in financial engineering. What advantage do we have — or can we create — in the market, and how do we maintain and extend this advantage?

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” And the market for software talent was hot hot hot.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It is perfectly clear why: Innovation is the main engine of sustained economic growth; therefore, if you want to ensure a vibrant economy you must excel in innovation. The aim of innovation policies, by contrast, is to foster the development of technologies that don’t yet exist and whose business models and markets are unknowable.

Policies 8

Policies Innovation Finance Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14