Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

The authors provide case studies from the travel industry to the retail, entertainment, and automotive industries. However, in the age of AI, organizations that cannot leverage customers and data across markets are likely to be at a disadvantage.”. They describe the journey to becoming an AI business.

Operations 290

Operations Industry Learning-by-Doing Automotive 290

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses. If your startup spends a lot on office design or executive first-class travel, consider the impression on your staff.

Strategy 8

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 8

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Generating new ideas, recognizing those with breakthrough potential, and then mobilizing an organization to drive those ideas from the mind to the market – often in the face of substantial risk and uncertainty – is not something every CEO feels cut out to do.

Innovation 120

Innovation Business Model Trends Franchising 120

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. How a blue chip technology innovator invests well over $700 million acquiring, developing, distributing and marketing a consumer digicam without a clear path connecting it to the most popular wireless medium around escapes me. This was obvious.

Wireless 11

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

They pay upwards of $300K to $1 million to consultancy firms that conduct market analyses and in-depth need-finding, identify new opportunities, generate promising ideas, and, often, develop ideas into working prototypes. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. A Different Approach.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers. Financiers.

Shaw 13

Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13