Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

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. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. of course).

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta , Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit. We would examine my stalled plans in order to better understand how people make progress, and more specifically, what leads us to innovate. By reframing it as being analogous to launching a business, I talked myself down. Bob asked me.

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Innovation Incubator Business Model Wilde 17

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

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Provide “Worthless” Rewards.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Game-changing innovation is a beautiful thing. The problem is that large companies find game-changing innovation staggeringly difficult to achieve. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. What does it take to innovate at scale?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Its members had a carefully constructed PowerPoint document, replete with facts and figures that showed the attractiveness of what we''ll call the booming management-training market in China (details have been disguised to protect the client''s confidentiality). Certainly, the end goal of many innovations is to generate financial returns.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The general point is right — a dollar of investment in incrementally improving the core is almost always going to earn a greater near-term return than a dollar invested in a growth business that might take years to incubate. Every business and business model has a finite life. Instead…. “So,”

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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

MAY 31, 2011

will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy. doesn't lack for technology; what it lacks is the imagination and capability to design the strategies and business models of tomorrow. infrastructure and business models — and so policy inertia and entrenched incumbents can stifle them.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Many of these entrepreneurial lessons have been codified in books, the new bibles for innovation — not just for entrepreneurs but also for managers looking to create new and innovative innovation businesses inside existing corporations. Unsurprisingly, the leadership at these firms will push back.

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Company Advertising Business Model Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups.

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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. Develop a portfolio of new business models. Any new venture or business model is risky.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

While there is no doubt an intent to strengthen India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, its state support is more limited and less sophisticated than China’s in addressing the voids that impede innovation and entrepreneurship. Third, the Chinese ecosystem intermediaries (e.g. Align partner programs with national priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

What’s driving companies to relocate near urban universities is the changing role of innovation within the private sector as firms are increasingly relying on external sources to support technology development. In the past, many large companies tended to innovate in isolation. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". It's the business model, stupid. It created a working prototype of a digital camera in 1975. photography.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These four elements set the stage for disruptive innovation to emerge, which suggests a more focused approach to national cleantech policy — and a path towards competing asymmetrically with China. Business Models: The right focus for scale equity is proven business models, not emerging technologies.

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Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

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. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. ” An Alternative Path.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation. First, why is it a sector?

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We met with leaders at private equity funds, venture capitalists, and incubators, including Andreessen Horowitz and Playground. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. But boldness by itself is a dime-store commodity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Record so far: Little more than a year after announcing an investment of $1 billion to launch the Watson Group, IBM established the Watson Health business unit in September 2015. The most successful innovative companies buy startups and other private companies to help transform themselves. Acquire ideas, not just revenue.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Is it Apple's consumer appeal, or the declining influence of corporate IT managers? Identifying a clear destination Big companies often hate to make choices.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

” I heard top management ask that question many times during the two years I spent working on new products at The New York Times. “We had the brand and the audience, and were then able to build an online dating business that was far more powerful as a business model than our core content execution.”

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Consensus Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Video 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

By applying this kind of arbitrage, a temporary or permanent migrant can decide to replicate a profitable product or business model available in one country but not in another. Entrepreneurs and managers can actively seek to build such experiences by living abroad and systematically comparing what they observe in other markets.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

What seems certain is that if you’re managing an incumbent company, you cannot predict, much less invent, the future on your own. Johnny Ryan, the executive who created FUSION, saw it as a “validator” rather than an incubator: It forced the start-ups to face the hazards of the market, but with support from peers and mentors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. They can partner with for-benefits by incorporating them into their supply chains, or working with them to incubate new products, services, and business models.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.”

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