Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

As an increasing portion of the processes and tasks that deliver customer value are digitized, the advantages increase to create a much more scalable enterprise, capable of delivering an unprecedented scope of products and services, all characterized by an impressive rate of improvement and pinpointed targeting.

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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. JEWEL SAMAD/Staff/Getty Images.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 9, 2019

As with so many technologies today, it can be hard to distinguish myth from reality. The same is true with driverless technology, with various levels of automation serving to muddy the waters of understanding. Significant time savings – people can use in-vehicle time to be more productive.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2020

As soon as staff realize this, morale may drop, and that can affect output and productivity, too. 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. There’s also employee turnover to consider.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 8, 2019

As automated technology becomes an increasing presence in the workplace, it’s tempting to think that machines are most effective when left to their own devices. The researchers simulated a number of processes from a production logistics facility used in industries such as automotive and engineering.

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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. Digital twins. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 27, 2022

GP Strategies Corporation, part of Learning Technologies Group, is a global workforce transformation provider of organizational and technical performance solutions. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, automotive, financial services, technology, aerospace and defense industries, and other commercial and government customers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Many people suggest that rates of new product introduction and adoption are speeding up, but is it really, across the board? As you can see from the chart, innovations introduced more recently are being adopted more quickly. This second graph, by Michael DeGusta of MIT’s Technology Review, presents similar results.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. The tight timeframe and “what must we all start working on” clause pushed people from platitudes like ‘working smarter’ or ‘being more innovative’ into concrete actions, including which sacred cow projects to stop. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable.

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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. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And it is strangling both US competitiveness, and the ability for US firms to innovate. One of the prime drivers of economic growth inside America over the past century has been disruptive innovation ; yet the phenomenon that Lessig describes is increasingly being used by large incumbent firms as a mechanism to stave off the process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Recently, in New York, we participated in a panel discussion organized by the Asia Society called " Jugaad Innovation: Reigniting American Ingenuity " (you can watch a video here ).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. Emerging economies have the bulk of the world’s population, yet most of them are non-consumers of products and services that we take for granted in the West. The starting point for such innovations is a big idea, a big dream.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. Access to innovation resources and skills matter far more than money.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Nearly 30 years ago, in 1987, the Nobel-winning economist Robert Solow surveyed the impact of IT on the economy and concluded that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Many of us hold principles that keep us from pursuing a more productive lifestyle. For example, one of the most common ones is the belief that increasing productivity, or getting the most out of your time, will decrease the quality of your work, or your ability to do tasks perfectly. race cars] as an innovation test-bed for road cars.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

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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. For centuries, the Gross World Product was flat.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Clearly, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technologies are finding their way into most everything that we touch and use in everyday life, including consumer products, financial services and healthcare delivery. ” In October, Samsung Electronics unveiled Bixby 2.0, Like this column?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. This is certainly true. Many economists would probably agree.

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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

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

It has been ranked as car of the year by a number of automotive outlets, and one friend of mine who lives in San Francisco has gloated noisily about his chance to drive it. But let's take a step back and consider the nature of the controversy, which I think is rooted in the way many inventors approach innovation. the inventor thinks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Gulf Coast, an announcement by Flextronics of plans to create a $32 million product innovation center in Silicon Valley, and a decision by Airbus to build a $600 million assembly line in Alabama for its jetliners. manufacturers have also closed the gap somewhat by enhancing their productivity and their use of automation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Tesla’s Powerwall storage system is not a radical innovation, and it is not the first battery for energy storage on the market. But, as Elon Musk surely understands, it is not always the best technology that wins the innovation race. Powerwall therefore has all the characteristics needed to succeed in this market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

This was the case at Harman , which had achieved extraordinary success in the high-end automotive infotainment systems for luxury cars. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. We need only to be patient.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Robots have been doing tough jobs for over half a century, mostly in the automotive sector, but they’ve probably had a bigger impact in Hollywood movies than on factory floors. Some of them are no longer bolted to the factory floor, and they’re moving beyond automotive manufacturing. That’s about to change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

There is a major trend in the design of physical products. Engineers are no longer design experts; they are mediators who structure and enable design interactions between imaginative customers and innovative suppliers of technologies and systems. Infosys Technology has launched a co-creation practice.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. In Washington, business as usual.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century.

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