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How Big Companies Can (and do) Innovate Like a Start-Up

Leading Blog

Re-creating these mindsets inside an established company is challenging because they result partly from the unique pressures and circumstances under which start-ups operate. When faced with a potential threat of technology or business model disruption, you need to consider two things. First is the nature of the threat.

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3 Ways to Get Your Own Digital Platform

Harvard Business Review

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies are both operators and investors. Cloud-based hardware is also increasingly available to any business at low cost. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Analytics are growing in every business function and industry.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

The business models of universities are being challenged, and it looks like the universities are out to lunch. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present. Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. Automated systems are usually very bad at recognizing context.

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If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In

Harvard Business Review

It poses a threat to carmakers’ business model of selling people cars. The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

This finding confirms what bankers fear: digitization upends business models, enabling greater competition that puts pressure on incumbents. By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds.

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