Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Waymo’s Director of Operations Shaun Stewart said that one of the reasons they chose Trov is that innovative technology needs innovative partners. ” Founder and CEO of Trov Scott Walchek said that “ this partnership highlights the convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance.

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Insurance Transportation Licensing Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Executives, especially CEOs, need something better. Move beyond Problem Solving to Innovative Decision Making – As you climbed the stairs to your current position, others called on you to solve problems. Conventional methods-which many never entirely understood in the first place-often don’t work during economic upheaval.

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Execution Competitive Advantage Transportation Leadership Styles 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Earlier this week, the space-transport start-up SpaceX had its most successful launch test yet with Grasshopper, the first fully and rapidly reusable rocket. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. The complexity of the Shuttle and its reliance on 1970''s technology drove costs up.

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Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

companies from innovating their way to competitive advantage. Why are CEOs having just as much trouble finding talent now as they did in tighter job markets? As one bank CEO interviewed for our survey put it, "Our future competitors will not be traditional banks, but large technology companies.". Already, 75% of the U.S.

Retail 16

Retail Competitive Advantage CEO Banking 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

They failed to come up with any, unable to imagine horseless transportation. Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. All of these efforts failed.

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Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Yet little did I know that some of the most extraordinary innovations I’ve seen would take place in the pizza business. The scale of the changes at Domino’s are remarkable.

CEO 8

CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. ” When asked about automation in retail, a good jobs company CEO who recently visited our class at MIT said he saw automation as a force multiplier.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

If you care about energy efficiency, the welfare of our senior citizens, equitable transportation services, jobs, or combating climate change, cities are the answer. Or consider transportation. In a suburban world where automobile transportation is the only option, all of those citizens are placed at a huge disadvantage.

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Transportation Energy Efficiency Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. “Actually,” the CEO responded, “we do have a core competence that unites us: we’re very, very good at winning government contracts.” FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. Startups and, increasingly, innovative mainstream companies converge on SXSW to test and launch new concepts. A fragile freemium model will drive innovation in enterprise-class solutions.

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Class Venture Capitalist Trends Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Supposedly set to launch this July — and then September — New York City announced that its innovative bike sharing program would be delayed until at least next spring. The Department of Transportation, however, had insisted such a pilot unnecessary. Until it works, we're not going to put it in. Jaws dropped.

Leadership 13

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. What I’ve learned is that it is rare for firms to succeed in transitioning from the present to an entirely different future; typically, the leader in one technology is not the leader in the next.

Industry 8

Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

While Facebook is still working diligently on mobile applications, CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to hint that the acquisition places the company on the cutting edge for the next pervasive platform: virtual reality. Disruptive innovation Technology' VR is insular. It doesn’t push the reach of the microprocessor.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse.

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Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” ” Moore answered without hesitation: “He would get us out of memories.”

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Earlier this year, Tesla shareholders approved what is likely the largest compensation package ever awarded to a CEO — for a CEO who clearly doesn’t need the money. Unsurprisingly, autonomous driving technology and where Tesla stands relative to competitors are frequently discussed. CSA-Archive/Getty Images.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Former Ogilvy CEO Charlotte Beers was famous for saying, “Collaboration is highly overrated when you don’t have the right thing to do.” He applied his specialized expertise to help this team evaluate the impact of construction-induced vibration on surrounding public transportation infrastructure. Work on your network.

Chief Operating Officer 10

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Since then, using the Net and social networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook, people in their 20s and 30s have been collecting and disseminating valuable data; collaborating with others they have never met; and creating rescue projects on the fly as well as garnering resources for them.

Crisis 14

Crisis COO Chemicals Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And with today’s technologies, companies now have the ability to see and act on these fluctuations in the moment. As new technologies shift customer journeys and expectations, they can (and should) also enhance companies’ abilities to engage with customers in the most relevant ways. Don’t be loyal to the status quo.

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Loyalty Marketing Apparel Maslow 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board. CEOs from some of the world’s largest companies put out public statements backing a strong climate deal. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. In the U.S.,

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Bill Gross, the founder and CEO of Idealab, who described the design challenges faced by Worldhaus , a $1,000 house for the poor that his team has been working on. billion people has always called out to me as a problem needing new and innovative solutions. Think Reverse Innovation: This isn't just for developing economies.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman has said his company loses roughly €400 million annually from climate change and extreme weather. Leading CEOs are seeing the work to manage climate change as a strategic and human imperative. Clean economy investments, already clocking in at $300 billion per year , will be rising.

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Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 Conspicuously absent from the photo was Uber’s CEO , Travis Kalanick. ” Here is the takeaway.

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014. Critical industry sectors from energy and banking to transportation and health care answer to different government agencies or regulators.

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Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

No One Actually Wants You to Be Creative :( Inside the Box Slate Americans love to give lip service to creativity, celebrating imaginative artists and innovators and calling for "out of the box" ideas. Uber is the future, blah blah blah. It would be like something out of a sci-fi movie," Roose writes.

Creativity 8

Creativity Sports Travel Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Transport on the line was so unreliable that crops in the areas it served were routinely left to rot in the fields during the harvest season. Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending. reuse existing resources. Adapting to local circumstances.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8