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

APRIL 27, 2012

Business models are being transformed, lives are being upended, vast new horizons of possibility opened up. These are all pretty common assertions in modern business/tech journalism and management literature. But he's not alone in the judgment that we're not actually living in an era of great innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

A philanthropist and a magazine editor discussed new business models for publishing. And their conference was visibly diverse (I later learned the demographic ratios were 50% women, 30% people of color, 25% LGBT, with a range of ages from 20 to 70). All organizations are looking to increase their innovation success rate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

I don’t mean a few quarters of sluggish growth or a one-time product flop, but a radical shift in its market, a major technology disruption, or a disastrous strategic bet that threatened the company’s very existence. It was a great idea for a conference, yet it amounted to a hill of beans.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. The straight sales model simply wasn’t working. And given the budgeting process in most city halls, it was far easier to go to market with only one type of product.

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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

JUNE 8, 2018

We heard this leadership dilemma from multiple companies that participated in our research on the leadership perspectives of C-suite executives and millennial leaders, which was co-produced by our three organizations, The Conference Board, RW2 Enterprises, and DDI. What might business models of the future look like?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. Some of them may never enter the car market, or may at least significantly delay a move toward ownership. Apple has a great intuitive feel for how consumers see a market, versus how manufacturers see it. Or a kitchen?

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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. For example, well-managed consolidators such as Dell Technologies are doing well in this market. Investing in true innovation.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Main Page Dis-Incentives to keep things simple… RSS Feed Dis-Incentives to keep things simple… By Rajesh Setty on Mon 08 Sep 2008, 1:55 PM - View Comments I saw this notice at the TechCrunch50 conference (which is simply awesome) It says: “$500 replacement fee for lost badges.

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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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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.

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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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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Attending a conference in your field might be a goal for someone who is passionate about sharing their expertise with others. For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2. You, however, might prefer getting hands-on experience with a landmark project that you’d love to work on.

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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." And no sector is complete without its own conference.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Even if business models, traditional processes, and long-standing industry practices are about to be broken up — and they are — when the dust settles one part of your business can and should be stronger than ever: the relationship you have with your customer. Branding Disruptive innovation Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk’s compensation plan, which will give him close to $56 billion in stock and awards if Tesla’s market cap reaches $650 billion, is designed to communicate a particular value proposition to Wall Street. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value.

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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 it''s the opportunity to try out a new business model, as at the Orange County Register in California.

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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. These types of cuts are applauded as canny, even heroic, by stock markets — despite their damage to the longer-term value-creating capacity of the enterprise. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. A VC firm is, first and foremost, an investment vehicle created to generate returns for investors that exceed those available in the fully liquid, low cost public equity markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

The story goes back to January 21, 2009, during Cook's inaugural conference call with investors after Jobs announced his medical leave of absence. Sure, these and other organizations are built around strong business models, stellar products and services, and (of course) clever advertising.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. As CEO Dave Steiner put it, "When your company is called Waste Management, and your customers all talk about 'zero waste,' you better change your business model.".

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The threat of Blue Nile has been felt most by mom & pop jewelers , but increasingly by the middle market retailers like Zales Corporation, as well as high-end brands like Tiffany and Cartier. In a store, they can gauge a particular diamond's sparkle with their own eyes, or they can confer with the jeweler, relying on his artistry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Hiring policies influence morale, productivity and turnover, marketing efforts shape demand growth, and competitors fight back. Games will further reinforce this edge over books or seminars once VR (virtual reality) becomes fully market-ready. The game play included collaborative interactions like agreeing on M&A/JV efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

Today, Shenzhen-based DJI , of which one of us is a board member, holds a global market share of 70% in consumer drones and offers a window into the future of competition from China. But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. Having a manufacturing ecosystem confers several benefits.

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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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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 cloud computing, we’ve seen these network effects help solidify the position of massive players – locking new entrants out of the market. But for many of us, what they offer will be good enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

But despite this outpouring of expertise, many organizations still find marketing in the social era ridiculously hard to do well, if at all. Perhaps marketing in the social era is that kind of problem. Fundamentally, this is an information model where companies provide the information and customers consume it.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Spurred by government reforms and market expectations, healthcare leaders are being forced to reinvent their organizations. The “Innovation Café” itself is the result of an innovisit to a Whirlpool Corporation facility that included an Innovation Training Center. .

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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. All this makes the early lessons from the Chariot venture worth heeding as it gains traction in the market.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning is increasingly being used to predict individuals’ attitudes, behaviors, and preferences across an array of applications — from personalized marketing to precision medicine. ” A chatbot trained using Twitter was shut down after only a single day because of its obscene and inflammatory tweets.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

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