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What Kind of Innovative Does Apple Have to Be?

Harvard Business Review

Who''s the target audience for the new iTunes Radio ? Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. Sounds great, I guess, and probably even innovative. I signed up for Spotify a while ago, and like it.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity.

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Business Lessons from the Titanic (in 3D)

Harvard Business Review

With special glasses, audience-goers are now able to see the ship crash into the iceberg even more vividly than before. They were all ignored by the wireless operator, who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages and by the crew, who were focused on breaking the speed record. You've Been Warned. So pay attention.

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Is Execution Where Good Strategies Go to Die?

Harvard Business Review

Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience. In the beginning of a disruptive innovation, the thing to measure is not ROI. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing.

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3 Strategic Questions the Media Industry’s Future Depends On

Harvard Business Review

There is no question that the media industry is experiencing dramatic disruption on many fronts—in the way it creates content, distributes content to consumers, and monetizes audiences. When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future? Humans and Automation.

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What Do You Really Mean by Business “Transformation”?

Harvard Business Review

The first is operational, or doing what you are currently doing, better, faster, or cheaper. The next category of usage focuses on the operational model. Operational model transformation should change the metrics the company uses to track performance. Often, the word confuses three fundamentally different categories of effort.

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The AT&T Ruling Shows That U.S. Regulators Don?t Understand Media?s Present ? or Future

Harvard Business Review

Or had a decade of disruptive innovation in interactive, internet-based video thoroughly altered the competitive landscape, largely leaving the incumbents behind? Generally, these mergers create opportunities for operating efficiencies and innovative new products and services with the combined assets of the merging companies.

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