Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani, professors at Harvard Business School, explore these changes in Competing in the Age of AI with examples of businesses in many industries. We have entered a new age in which networks and algorithms are woven into the fabric of the firm, changing how industries function and the way the economy operates.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 10, 2022

The study assessed data from over 1,000 companies from Europe’s main stock markets and found that there is a clear commitment to accelerate the transition towards net-zero. Solutions differ by industry and company, and all have different starting points, opportunities and challenges. Environmental commitments.

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Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The rapid advancement of technology has given rise to an array of innovative solutions designed to streamline our lives and businesses. SmartEdge, a term that might seem relatively new to some, encompasses a wide range of cutting-edge technologies that revolve around the concept of edge computing. What is Smart Edge?

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Technology Retail Resources Efficiency 78

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

“Our global assessment showed no significant differences of future readiness of SMEs at the regional or the industry level,” the authors say. The key takeaway from these results is that SMEs are neither disadvantaged by their geographical location nor industry space in moving towards future-readiness.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2022

The researchers tracked the impact of robots in 741 regions across the United States and found that there was a noticeable fall in gender inequality in both income and workforce participation after the introduction of industrial robots. These results were consistent across industries, from the automotive to the electronics sector.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. But one angle that hasn't yet been covered is the brand-inspired cultural revolution he led inside the organization.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That we’re still largely waiting for such an immersive world to take hold, despite much-hyped initiatives, such as Second Life, perhaps underlines the difficulties the technology has had in keeping pace with such a vision. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 Digital twins. Changing knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2020

The changes in the automotive industry are massive. Automated cars may be experiencing a few snags right now, but there’s no doubt the technology will be on the market in the future. Your brand is seen as creative and new-age as a result of implementing the technology into your business plan.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

Innovators think of a company not in terms of what it is or what it does, but in terms of what it knows —its skills and unique capabilities—and what it owns —such as infrastructure, proprietary technologies, standards, patents, brands, customer data, and so on. Jeff Bezos gets this, too. What strategic assets—i.e.,

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Our world is too complex, markets too volatile, and technology too fast-paced for us to relax into complacency about organizational safety and normalcy. Her private sector career has spanned the information technology, architecture, strategic consulting, and automotive industries. What’s a leader to do?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Faculty of Columbia Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While all of those perspectives are relevant, the most revealing aspect of GM’s announcement may well be what the layoffs say about broader technology trends. This has reoriented the occupational mix of the industry, changing its hiring needs and layoff decisions. What should be done instead?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. Over the past five years, Apple and Google have made significant moves in the automotive, healthcare, media, and smart home markets, among many others.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped?

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Wouldn’t that give American industry, or the industry of any culture, an important leg up? Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Integrity is no simple matter. PERSEVERANCE.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Society of Automotive Engineers has defined six levels of autonomy from level 0 – 5. A few OEM’s in-market today have been working towards Level 3 & 4 automation, meaning the car can take over most driving functions , but the driver must still be able to intervene at any time. Navigating the Path to Pervasive Autonomy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

In a country where academia and industry usually tread separate paths, it’s unusual to see the two innovate together. However, for such a technology to spread widely, a company like Saint-Gobain is needed to manufacture various materials on an industrial scale.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Retooled industrial-age machinery sits alongside robotic-manufacturing equipment. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. We call this super-sector “advanced industries.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries. The five largest automotive companies in the world generate more than 750 billion euro in annual revenue. The names in the industry are global brands – BMW, Ford, Daimler. Information technology, however, is one of those industries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

This shift is starting to pose an existential question for the automobile industry: What sort of cars will we need in 10 years? If the answer really is electric, autonomous ones, that will pose a huge challenge for an industry that has not fundamentally changed since the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? Then the disruptor improves its performance over time, eventually catching the industry either unaware or unable to adapt.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. By eliminating the driver altogether, businesses could slash costs by as much as 60%, depending on the industry. Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed.

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. America’s problem?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In the tech startup world, technology is important for success, but it does not disproportionately determine winners and losers. Two companies can invent similar technologies; one will win and the other will lose. Focusing on technology supremacy alone is a model for failure. You can't resell that CD, legally.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Wouldn''t that give American industry, or the industry of any culture, an important leg up? Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. INTEGRITY Integrity is no simple matter.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They’re also among the most profitable (the top five companies make up for 15% of the index’s total market capitalization), and the fastest growing (their market capitalization has grown this year by 23.3% Technology. Technology. Automotive. Technology. Technology. Automotive.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Traditionally, antitrust regulation has looked for whether a merger increased or decreased competition in a particular market. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The automotive industry has opened up again. For a little bit of context, I’d recommend traveling back in time 50 years and looking at an entirely orthogonal industry: shipping. But what’s more likely is that in order to take full advantage of this new technology, everything will have to change.

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Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports. “It’s tribal.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. In contrast, the automotive industry has barely half the rate of digital reinventors. joshua sortino/unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win?

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