Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The ceramic filter is a clever and innovative technology that is widely utilized across various industries today. Not only is this advantageous, but so too is their ability to remain stagnant when in operation. Nevertheless, some ceramic filters are more effective and efficient in comparison to others.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 25, 2019

The researchers were interested in how the members of the guild played in comparison to other guilds, especially as it was specifically created to better service the LGBT community. “Different online communities could use these ideas, look at how the technology can be shaped for their causes.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? It is your walk that matters. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

We shouldn’t reform the patent system, they say, because there is no evidence that trolls are hindering innovation; these calls are being driven just by a few large companies who don’t want to pay inventors. It’s true that plaintiffs, including patent trolls, tend to file lawsuits in dynamic, innovative industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). We know that technologies often take a long time to diffuse and to deliver benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. The comparison to the PC is telling. Glass is different.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States, which needed allies against the Soviet Union, not only tolerated Japanese protectionism but also transferred advanced technology to Japan and subsidized Japanese firms. China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China China, by contrast, is simply open.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Moreover, it forgot that it will continue to do well in China and India not just by keeping costs low but also by developing new technologies. In 2009, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

When I argue that e-commerce isn’t likely to destroy innovative omnichannel retailers , I typically receive passionate responses. In general, however, e-commerce operations aren’t as cheap to run as most people think. in operating margins over the past three years. But how much of the difference do these reasons explain?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Now, in some cases, it can often lower prices than Amazon because Jet.com’s operating model doesn’t rely on holding inventory.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

By comparison, 62% of incumbents in high-income economies on average remained in the top quintile for the same decade. The top-performing emerging-market firms innovate more aggressively than their advanced economy rivals: 56% of their revenue comes from new products and services, compared with 48% for firms in advanced economies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg’s “platform” reference has elicited many comparisons of Oculus to Google’s purchase of Android , the company that would provide Google with its own smartphone operating system. Disruptive innovation Technology' Virtual reality is a way of experiencing the content within a computing platform.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. This reduction will affect all of our operations, including staffing, customer service, outreach, and marketing. Technological challenges. Fostering innovation. A new consumer mindset.

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

It is a collection of in-depth interviews with movers and shakers in the technology world. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. SM : Inspiration. I wanted a fast-track way to get this book series out ASAP.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Innovating for Value in Health Care. In-hospital technology and treatment improvements alone were not enough to explain this improvement in survival.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” An IoT innovation that both recognizes the way users really think about things and removes barriers to a smoothly coping IDS, the new freezer makes experimentation more productive. “We Information & technology Internet Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

Our ongoing obsession with data and analytics technology, and our reverence for the rare data scientist who reigns supreme over this world, has disillusioned many of us. AI is the first technology to make personalized, “audience of one” communication a reality. Big data is about to get a big reality check.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Any advantages you have now will pale in comparison with a great set of algorithms that differentiates the customer experience. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. It is the algorithms that will create value for the business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Mine societal, economic, political, regulatory, and technological trends to identify any external changes that necessitate a shift in your strategy. If you have assessed the risk of your strategic options in terms of brand risk, operational risk, market risk, and so on, do the same for the current strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

My clients hire me not solely on the basis of what I can personally do for them in a vacuum, but rather what the collective influence of my network and resources can accomplish for them when I operate outside of my own personal bubble. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the great comparison between humility and narcissism. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

My evidence is a series of separate surveys conducted by different organizations, including the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation. In comparison, the U.S. production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology). The MIT Forum launched an online survey in 2012 to understand what U.S. A value of 50.0 PMI was 51.1

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Those of us who believe that managers make better decisions when key data are presented visually tend to get very excited about all the innovation going on in the graphical display of information. Consumer goods Decision making Information & technology' For a sampling of some new and cool tools, see the popular Hans Rosling TED talk.)

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