Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. That, in essence, is the value of open innovation. Or, what if the company needed to identify a new business model? There is no one “true” path to innovation. Sustaining innovation.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

I knew little about developing mobile interface software or, when I admitted it to myself, how to build a business from the ground up. First is the bandwidth to test out new ideas and to maintain a constant stream of innovation. Recruiting motivated intrapreneurs can move this innovation forward.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is a process or journey of becoming : Although certain people are clearly born with innate leadership qualities, without the right environment and exposure, they may fail to develop their full potential. You do not simply just become a leader one moment, and then cease to need learning & development in the next moment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

Broadcasters have had it tough in business model terms. Indeed, the New York Times recently noted that the profit model for broadcasters is under assault, citing "cracks in the citadel of TV profits." To understand just how disruptive this is, consider one of the more dramatic moments of the conference when News Corp.''s

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. What might business models of the future look like?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. As the example of DJI demonstrates, Chinese companies are busy innovating based on three valuable and difficult-to-imitate advantages that will allow them to compete effectively with, and, in some areas, even overtake their Western rivals.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

In traditional investing philosophy, the most innovative firms are potentially the most profitable. So, from business books to business schools and corporate boards, everyone is talking about innovation. But, copying others is a reality of doing business. Even in developed markets like Western Europe and the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Wall Street Journal is out with a funny (and brutally honest) takedown of a word that has achieved almost-mythical status among business thinkers like me. That word is innovation, and it’s quickly losing whatever meaning it once had. an innovation, then what isn’t an innovation? What does the word even mean anymore?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

I'm sitting at DLD , a new-media conference hosted by an old media company (German magazine publisher Burda) in Munich. Lots of industries have been turned upside down by innovation over the years. Several people I've talked to here in Munich expressed surprise, in fact, that Facebook hasn't seen its business model disrupted yet.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The only organizations that will prosper in this environment of disruptive and massive change are those that build a resilient and adaptive culture in which staff members: Welcome and seek change, rather than resist it; Experiment and innovate, rather than maintain the status quo; and. Kaiser Permanente has sponsored similar excursions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? Trouble is, it’s hard to think of any business challenge where real pro­gress has been harder to come by. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

At a time when digital technology is transforming one industry after another, large companies tend to view innovation and disruption as the result of breakthrough discoveries or technological wonders. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. The business model WhatsApp has today is essentially the one it started with.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. “We are getting pull from enterprises,” Ford Mobility head Marcy Klevorn said recently on a media conference call.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Examine business contacts from the past. This is a great way to grow business because you know each other. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Mine your backyard.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At a recent investor conference, one of us heard a CEO proudly state that the new law would have no effect at all on how his company views investments. Investing in true innovation. Remember how Netflix transformed itself from a mail-in DVD business to an online streaming company with proprietary content?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

Apple is so great at connectivity, aesthetics, and entertainment that any vehicle they develop will incorporate these as table stakes. The third playbook for an Apple vehicle is to create new categories , via breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation. How about a man cave on wheels?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Its primary business model is to create content and sell ads.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

How long can a business model succeed that forces students to accumulate $200,000 or more in debt and cannot guarantee jobs — even years after graduation? We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Makerbot, the 3D-printer developer, followed this approach by first attracting a group of devoted product fans among the maker community and rallying them to the cause of making desktop 3D printing accessible to all. Hybrid business model management. Leveraging early adopters to accelerate platform adoption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2011

. • Kindle Fire Tablet — a new market disruption enabled by business model innovation. On the conference call, Szkutak explained that significant capacity investments are being made in distribution centers so Amazon can continue to grow its core retail business. You have to be willing to fail.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

This company has spent 16 years turning those (often empty) slogans into a powerful — and highly profitable — business model.” I met Jeff Bezos at one of the first e-commerce conferences ever organized, sat by him at lunch, and within minutes knew I had to hit the “record” button on my cassette recorder.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. Sometimes that''s political influence and hometown boosterism, as with the local developer and hotelier who bought San Diego''s daily paper.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. Share buybacks are preferred to investment in innovation, entrepreneurship, and value creation. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. As part of the project, we built machine learning models based on various types of unstructured inputs including user-generated text and telemetric and sensor-based data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” In fact, platforms are based on one of the most challenging business models there is.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Books are great to foster intellectual understanding but are not interactive and do not reflect the reality of busy schedules and declining attention spans. And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. Live pilots are highly realistic but costly, time consuming and risky.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

It may be a long time before cloud transportation companies offer anywhere near the same variety that ownership can confer. In software, these network effects help draw new developers and consumers to a given platform, simplify application deployment and service, and streamline the act of finding relevant talent.

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