Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

By 2024, the global blockchain market is projected to exceed $60 billion. That is exactly why content creators should think twice before striking a deal with the digital devil and surrendering creative control and a significant slice of their earnings to big, centralized content heavyweights. Don’t take my word for it.

Content 81

Content Decentralization Advertising Incubator 81

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Indeed, research suggests we’re in the midst of an ‘entrepreneurial economy’, which has prompted governments and corporations to lend their heft to the entrepreneurial wave, with incubators and accelerators popping up left, right and center. Instead, markets have become stodgy and increasingly immune to competition.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

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. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

Real Estate 12

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We realized early on that it wouldn’t be enough for marketers just to focus on advertising and external messaging. Shape the market early. Go to new places.

Innovation 15

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

While our first instinct might be to help employees find new jobs, what we really need to do is help companies shift into new markets focused on human services and adopt new business models that will allow employees, customers, and communities to benefit from technological change. Automated farming is also quickly advancing.

Company 9

Company Creativity Retail Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Signing off emails informally would have been unheard of 10 years ago, but many companies today have embraced a more relaxed attitude towards such details and encourage employees to get creative with it. According to Insight Global ’s consolidated data, companies that showcase diversity become 70 percent more likely to reach new markets.

Examples 97

Examples Company Diversity Team Building 97

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We realized early on that it wouldn’t be enough for marketers just to focus on advertising and external messaging. Shape the market early. Go to new places.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. For industry incumbents, the problem isn't a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but a dearth of pro-innovation values, processes and practices. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Isn’t it better to hasten Joseph Schumpeter’s process of creative destruction and move capital and employment from inefficient dinosaurs to more vibrant and agile upstarts? Creative destruction carries transaction costs. In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Third, hardware entrepreneurs in some cities can now access a sophisticated supporting infrastructure, including a sizable ecosystem of hardware “studios,” incubators, accelerators, and service-providers that has grown up to abet start-ups in dozens of cities from Austin to Providence to Miami.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

The business model of these firms was to make markets , and they were large enough essentially to monopolize the technology categories if successful. But university efforts to bring research to market are even more important.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Florentine workshops were communities of creativity and innovation where dreams, passions, and projects could intertwine. Ferdinando Galiani, a Neapolitan economist of the 18th century, argued that markets are conversations. Fostering dialogue. Facilitating the convergence of art and science.

Innovation 8

Innovation Workshop Incubator Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Why not make an opposite set of assumptions, that our most human characteristics — imagination, creativity — will appear in new guises to save ourselves, our jobs, and even democracy? Rather than being victims of uncontrollable forces, we can use our imaginations and creativity to create the future.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Charlton and Reid decided to launch TechTown, a nonprofit business incubator, which went on to spark a small renaissance in entrepreneurship in midtown Detroit. These findings fit another area of research as well, which shows that creativity and innovation spike for many in later life.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Business Incubator Incubator Sample 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mateschitz spent considerable time overseas as a marketing salesman prior to founding Red Bull. Additionally, discrimination against immigrants in labor markets may exert pressure on them to seek self-employment. Cross-cultural experiences may also stimulate creativity. Musk migrated from South Africa to the U.S. as young adult.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

In our work at Change Logic, we’re finding again and again that established leadership practices, corporate cultures and identities, and organizational structures are far bigger obstacles to successful innovation than whether or not you can train a small and talented group to identify and prove market traction of a minimum viable offering.

Company 8

Company Advertising Business Model Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. Not everyone should be an entrepreneur , and leaders can do much to harness their employees creative potential without forcing them to quit and create their own business. What do 70% of successful entrepreneurs have in common?

Leadership 16

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

So companies are increasingly seeking ways to tap into the creative milieu of the start-up world. Johnny Ryan, the executive who created FUSION, saw it as a “validator” rather than an incubator: It forced the start-ups to face the hazards of the market, but with support from peers and mentors.

Advertising 8

Advertising Banking Learning Curve Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators. That's exactly the investment YouTube is making: helping its suppliers creatively scale. They don't just partner; they provide resources that add value.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed. We organized these initiatives around small venture units, incubating them separately (and far away) from existing businesses.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. Many tech companies have experimented with giving employees unstructured time to explore new ideas such as LinkedIn’s InCubator, Apple’s Blue Sky and Microsoft’s Garage.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Why not make an opposite set of assumptions, that our most human characteristics — imagination, creativity — will appear in new guises to save ourselves, our jobs, and even democracy? Rather than being victims of uncontrollable forces, we can use our imaginations and creativity to create the future.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

This has been an explosive summer — markets in turmoil, cities in flames, politics in meltdown. So it's a relief to enjoy and learn from an explosion of a different sort — the explosion of creativity taking place this August in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Who markets each event?

Creativity 8

Creativity Participative Audience Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry. Alignment can take a while. The vision thing.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

But studies show that being exposed to different perspectives and ideas spurs creativity. Mario Chamorro, a growth marketer in San Francisco, knows how important it is to treat employees fairly. “Both creative, dorky, and outgoing.” “It challenges you,” she says.

Management 10

Management Video Team Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM Watson’s progress in the health care market is a significant example and driver of the transformation, providing big lessons to IBM and to every large company that must disrupt its own business — or watch competitors do it first. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. It is now possible to shift a large part of the market research into the product development phase. First, you would do market research to gain some insight into a potential market or an underserved market.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. A Different Approach.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In a tight labor market, it’s imperative that a hiring manager understand the immigration issues that affect who they can hire and how. At The Data Incubator, we help companies hire data scientists from our big data fellowship. As such, USCIS will find certain roles in business, management, public relations, marketing, etc.,

Process 8

Process Outsourcing Long-term Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. It’s been promoted to workers as a way to capture the creativity and excitement of entrepreneurship, but with more resources and less risk.

Incubator 8

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

There are two contemporary strategic imperatives, among others, that many executives are grappling with: (1) competing in emerging markets and (2) partnering with startups to gain exposure to novel ideas and opportunities. Such considerations seem less pertinent in a market like India where nationally mandated focus areas are less engrained.

Incubator 8

Incubator Company Policies B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It will increasingly help government health agencies, payers, and providers to make decisions about such issues as drug discovery, patient access, and marketing. But real-world data comes in a variety of different formats, is often highly unstructured (containing textual and other nonnumeric data), and is rife with missing values.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Incubator Health Care Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A point of market share creates five times that amount. The general point is right — a dollar of investment in incrementally improving the core is almost always going to earn a greater near-term return than a dollar invested in a growth business that might take years to incubate. Unfortunately, few companies do that.

Incubator 11

Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 11