Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. They orient their firm around the needs of their home market alone. Meanwhile, competitors, or simply new and better ways of working, replace them.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. By competing on products, we respond to the market. This philosophy has started to take its toll.

Industry 11

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. If practices like Silver Star’s really are good for productivity and innovation, won’t companies adopt them on their own? Not necessarily.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. These solutions are new to market and some of them may not be included in the standard offerings of your health insurer or third-party administrator. Regulatory and compliance. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Integration.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Such outcome-based guarantees and incentives are rare in traditional top-down bundled-payment contracts created without the input of frontline physicians. Harvard Pilgrim agreed to design new, innovative plans whose features included waiving such liabilities as co-payments if a member chose a high-value RCR provider for the surgery.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

This helps to prove their identity, cutting down on fraud and creating market efficiencies. Even better, blockchains can spur local high-tech innovation. Just getting the costs of regulation and compliance down would open world markets and create wealth, but that doesn’t have to mean changing local regulations.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

But in 2009, federal regulations applied financial incentives and penalties to drive broad implementation of EMRs. But just as the cell phone, originally designed as a mobile communication device, has been adapted to an unimagined array of additional functions, the EMR is serving as a platform for innovation and creativity.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or “churn” in marketing parlance, often involves offering incentives such as discounts to individuals identified as likely to defect.

Education 8

Education Execution Wireless Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Does your organization have the “market power” to implement the scenario? Identify whether your organization has the ability, based on market size and/or influence, to get other parties to participate in a consortium. A new smart global economy built on an innovative digital platform of trust is being constructed.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

Though these services and their innovative business models win acclaim from consumers and investors, their approach to the law is troubling — both for its implications for civil society and in its contagious influence on other firms in turn pressured to skirt legal requirements. Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models.

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation Licensing Video 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

That’s understandable — the growth of the consumer mobile market in Africa has been spectacular. And while almost all the examples I cite are from West Africa, many of these ideas and innovations are well suited for emerging markets around the world. In emerging markets, infrastructure is always an issue.

CRM 8

CRM Marketing Supply Chain NGO 8