Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

In their book From Smart to Wise , Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou state that wise leadership succeeds where smart leadership cannot. Wise leadership isn’t about how smart you are. Here, the authors share how to develop that perspective: How we see the world—our leadership perspective—shapes our thoughts, decisions, and actions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. He asked himself what kind of business model would make sense in the context of such exponential growth, and his answer was Amazon’s original online bookstore.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Ernst & Young Purpose Is Deeper Than Profit Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. But as your business grows, the founder exits, and new leaders join the company, it’s easy to lose sight of the purpose.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea. We can all dream up big ideas, but few of us can bring them to market. Likewise, leadership is a choice. You have to decide if leadership is really something you're ready to shoulder.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Meaning that any part of your business or product that can be replaced by pure digital information almost certainly will be. The process of vaporizing physical things and replacing them with digital substitutes is the biggest trend affecting manufacturing, distribution, retail, and marketing in the 21st century,” Tercek adds.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

That may have been the way Google started out, and search is undoubtedly still at the core of Google’s business model, but judging from the company’s diverse and rapidly widening portfolio of products, services, and interests, Page would appear to view Google much more broadly. Not very likely. This is the essential point.

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Thin Difference

APRIL 11, 2019

While business leaders say they want higher employee engagement, the traditional models have stumbled. With more than one way to organize a business, why don’t we see other models used more? Other business models exist. Let’s review a snapshot of some of these organizational and business models.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Today, the data to answer those questions exists — it’s captured by the software-as-a-service firms whose services companies use to run their businesses. The most likely software firms to have such data are those that provide transactional capabilities to their customers using a subscription-based SaaS model.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions. Change begins at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. These businesses now make up more than half the company.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

In Jon Mertz’s new book, Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders , Jon talks about Soul Sparks: “Soul sparks are those small ignitions of inspiration that fan into big changes, new directions, or fresh works. MED tried to grow into other emerging markets, but no viable business model emerged.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

In Jon Mertz’s new book, Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders , Jon talks about Soul Sparks: “Soul sparks are those small ignitions of inspiration that fan into big changes, new directions, or fresh works. MED tried to grow into other emerging markets, but no viable business model emerged.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? When you are handed a business card that was printed at Kinko’s are you impressed? Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

More troubling, our own research shows that even when business leaders are proactive resource allocators, they are still hesitant to invest in new business models. Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

They explained to me that they worked for a software company near Chicago and were on a team trip to Manhattan as a reward for outstanding performance. I think leaders should think of their culture as the first and most important business model that they create. Leadership' They were obviously together.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was directed to two companies already working in this market, Baba Jobs in India and Assured Labor in Latin America. When we met in January 2012, my idealist entrepreneurial dreams hit pavement as David shared their years of market experience in mobile recruitment while managing a large and rapidly growing team in over four countries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. You may be thinking: but my company isn’t a software company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The third move is the "hidden gem," which can be illustrated with the integrative move performed by Bob Young after he co-founded Red Hat Software in 1995. He faced two opposing models. The first was Red Hat's own model and that of its many 'free software' competitors. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. These businesses now make up more than half the company.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market. If I came at it from a product perspective, I would ask, how can I sell practice-management software, or how can I automate patient record-keeping?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The year before, prompted by all this, Lumiscape’s leadership had decided to pivot from a sales model to a subscription model. Instead of selling the streetlights and leaving the cities to manage them, the company would rent them out for a monthly fee, with installation, maintenance, and monitoring software all included.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. stock exchanges.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Innovation in communities, in the classroom, and with school administration and leadership is taking shape all across the country.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped? Their business models benefit from internet connectivity and they enjoy tremendous network effects. An example would be Google in search, or Facebook in social networking.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Its market value of $46 billion (as of June 2015) is larger than that of Uber, Snapchat, or even Palantir. Last year, Xiaomi overtook Samsung to become the leader in the Chinese market. It sells smartphones comparable to Samsung’s high-end models at prices that are 30-50% lower.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For example, increasing your marketing spend for digital channels or upgrading internal communication systems. Digital technology and business models are on the radar of every executive, and there is an expectation that most companies must change to keep up. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types. In today’s market, tech platforms enable IP and relationships to scale rapidly, and at near-zero cost. In this business model, you will also both share in the value that your network creates.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I remember attending a Hewlett-Packard meeting for industry analysts in the early 1990s and hearing HP proudly declare that it was becoming a software company. Software had turned into a stronger driver of revenue in the computer industry than hardware, and HP management had realized that it had to make the shift to sustain its growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. And services have a very different business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Companies are right to be worried.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Unicorns are: Small in size. Narrowly focused.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. Everything on that canvas is a hypothesis, and the I-Corps model is designed to test each one.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. In platform markets, cultivating user capability becomes as strategically important as reducing transaction costs. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Whether you’re a corporation, a nonprofit or a government agency, chances are that your approach to customer relationships at a system-wide level begins and ends with CRM (customer relationship management) software — yet its implementation rarely does much to foster real relationships. Measuring Marketing Insights.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

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