The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 The growth in digital twins has been driven by technological improvements in areas such as the internet of things and wireless connectivity. “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 109

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

According to Market Analysts, the Global 3D displays market is expected to grow by double digits with market size of over $100 billion in the next 5 years. Key players in 3D displays include most of the top display makers in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China in addition to several startup companies with unique technologies.

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Technology Content Video Globalization 102

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Although it's far too soon to tell whether that program will lead to a major new line of business, Whole Foods should be commended for continuing to innovate during the current economic doldrums when many companies have instead retrenched by making across-the-board cutbacks, even in product R&D. Wireless carriers in the U.S.

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Innovation Wireless Discount Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

I've spent the week in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , where billion-dollar companies unveil multi-million-dollar products looking for mainstream popularity, and where startups unveil ideas, looking for angles and angels. You don't make wireless Airplay speakers. Technology marketing needs to be shameless.

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Marketing Press Release Wireless Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 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. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Many leaders of midsize companies – especially if they’re the founders – are constitutionally inclined to see new opportunities around every corner. So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Take the case of Safaricom , Kenya’s largest cell phone company and creator with Vodafone of the popular wireless banking product, M-Pesa. Kroton started by developing innovative curricula for K-12 education in one province, and then grew to become a national leader in online higher education.

Marketing 8

Marketing Supply Chain Banking Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

In three recent blog posts we looked at the innovation mindset in individuals, profiling game changers Jerry Buss , Peter Jackson , and Shantha Ragunathan. Innovators maintain a laser focus on outcomes , avoid getting caught in the activity trap , and proactively "expand the pie" to make an impact. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5 Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Take Cisco, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. The record labels grumbled that Apple sucked the lion’s share of the profits out of the industry, but it was too late. for three years.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2024

How and when your company should invest in AR/VR technologies.

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Technology Company Wireless Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco is an easy company to admire. Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. or "How can we push the innovation envelope?"

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Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

As companies struggle to develop a new generation of internationally competent leaders, many are turning to localization instead. And don’t make the mistake of viewing expatriation as being solely about sending people from headquarters to emerging markets. Super-Green Companies Make Tempting Targets (HBS Working Knowledge).

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Wireless How To McKinsey Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Yesterday, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, the electric car company, announced that Tesla would make its patents freely available to competitors. After all, the conventional wisdom holds that patents are essential to keep competitors from imitating innovations, especially for small startup companies. Consider first the benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

We were in a depressed area of the province of Rizal, part of the sprawling city of Manila in the Philippines, conducting field research with a local company looking for new growth opportunities. She proudly began to talk about how she had a prepaid wireless broadband card that allowed him to access education via the family mobile phone.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co. Integration is key.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

I often find myself immersed in the perfect pacing of a well-constructed mystery, the flawless delivery of that once-in-a-lifetime monologue, the scale and grandeur of the next big blockbuster — I get so caught up in all of it, sometimes I forget that I generally go there to tell companies their businesses are in trouble.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. With no means to track sales, little data is available, and channels are too fragmented for companies to forecast production and distribution with any degree of accuracy. These trends are not limited to customers.

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Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A partnership with Starbucks elevated the mobile payment company Square to a whole new level. The champions I’ve known have been motivated by a host of related factors – generating personal visibility, drawing attention and resources to their domain, or being perceived as innovators.

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Stephenson Due Diligence Finance Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Kudos to Microsoft for not offering an across-the-board price cut – the move most companies would have made. For instance, when discount airlines started entering different markets, incumbent carriers typically panicked. An innovative company creates a great product that is widely adopted and highly profitable.

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Discount Airlines Price Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If you’re not turning your company into a “math house” you’re headed for serious trouble. Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. For this reason, one entrepreneur observed, "More companies [in India] die of indigestion than of starvation."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Given that this intervention could prevent more suffering than many wonder drugs, one would expect that there would be zero market for a breathing machine that didn’t make lung-preventive ventilation as easy as possible. When health systems insist on interoperable technologies, the market will respond.

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Technology Health Care Wireless System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a result, both traditional circuit-switched telephone companies and over-the-air television broadcasters have seen their value propositions deteriorate, in Hemingway’s great phrase, gradually, then suddenly. Now it’s time for the law to play serious catch-up with a market that has continued moving quickly in unexpected directions.

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Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

The Mississippi-born former IBM salesman, FedEx COO, and CEO of AT&T Wireless and Netscape Communications argues that funny sayings, especially if they involve animals, stick with people in a way that PowerPoint strategy slides usually don’t. So, it’s not just the fighter, it’s the terrain that they’re on, the market they’re in.

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Advice Management CAPEX Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Recently, however, leading physical stores have discovered that they can also harness the power of powerful digital marketing tools and integrate them directly into the in-store experience. The New Tools of Marketing. How leading companies connect with customers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Percolate.

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Retail Customer Intimacy Loyalty Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. For instance, hundreds of employees at a successful global technology company I studied participate in auto-analytic experiments to find correlations between knowledge work productivity (the thinking self) and improved health (our physical selves).

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Health Care Participative Wireless Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Armstrong’s Killer App.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

Editor's Note: This blog was co-authored with Tang Wang, doctoral student at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Missouri, Kansas City. Smart phones will be the occasion for significant " reverse innovation " in the coming months and years, we believe. This is exactly the pattern of reverse innovation.

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Marketing Wireless Survey Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. Industrial companies like JCB, Cummins, AECOM, General Electric and investors like Brookfield have successfully capitalized on India’s infrastructure investments.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9 Sunil Gupta, the Edward W.

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