Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations. They are paying up for strong business models with scale and access to valuable new markets, users, and distribution capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

With the support of a corporate team, each project team implemented rapid prototyping: iterating experiments on the different components of their new business design and strategy in order to identify the right business model. The corporate office could offer organizational cover but no further resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

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. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. It's the business model, stupid. What lessons can we take from Kodak's struggles?

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes. This is hardly surprising.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Team members assumed that meant going back to the drawing board to develop a business model that would be profitable in smaller cities. What do operating margins have to be? It''s perilously easy for corporate innovators to skate past the why and the how, particularly those working in new-growth groups or incubators.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But even a business model innovator like Zipcar must eventually respond to a changing world. Doing so helps spread the value of innovation into areas responsible for the broader operating model. This cultural diffusion happens as a result of highlighting the underlying values tied to the success story (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

These are all good things, but they should be part of the normal course of business and the drive for continuous improvement. So let’s stop putting “operational,” “incremental,” and “adjacent” improvements under the innovation umbrella. Second, demystify the process. Having a clear path to new ideas is what helps make innovation work.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

It's important to create strategic options through mechanisms such as partnering or incubating new business models. RIM has made a shoot-for-the-moon bet on a new operating system to be released near the end of 2012, but in the interim it might have brought out simple, rugged tablets tailored to corporate customers.

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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). Paul Garbett for HBR. You’re there to be a catalyst. Start small.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. The Aldini-Valeriani School thus acted as the incubator of a number of new firms, with a good number of students who subsequently choosing to start their own packaging companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking "lean startups" from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Scaling Lesson 1: Focus On Finding A Great Business Model. Magical, really.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Kendall Square and Silicon Valley are the best known, but hardly the only, places where we see rich interactions among serial entrepreneurs, VCs, law firms specializing in ventures, university technology transfer offices, and providers of physical incubator space. Need more convincing that the US economy now features an innovation sector?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

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. CEOs can even put their own businesses on a path to becoming for-benefit, as circumstances allow. Change the Rules.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Talented founders know that corporations simply cannot replicate the deep experience private VCs have in starting companies, nor their expertise in assisting startups with complex challenges such as deal making, business modeling, resolving disputes among founders, executing a successful IPO, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Trouble is, it’s hard to think of any business challenge where real pro­gress has been harder to come by. You have to be tracking trends your competitors haven’t yet noticed, then figuring out ways of using them to upend traditional business models. Leverage embedded competencies and assets.

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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. Using the Chariot phone app, riders could sign up for existing routes and also propose new ones under a crowdsourcing model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

incubators) that nurture startups typically embody local government efforts through which state policy is implemented on the ground. Third, the Chinese ecosystem intermediaries (e.g. Align partner programs with national priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

We often observe a wide-ranging set of initiatives and investments operating independently, and in some cases, even competitively. Scotiabank is also a leader in adopting this type of new model. Unfortunately, these investments are unlikely to yield meaningful benefits. Much of corporate venturing today is fragmented and ad hoc.

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