Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are driven by advances in core technologies along with a new, open architecture — the Bitcoin blockchain. Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic. Test to learn.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. Thus, centralized firms more quickly rid themselves of unsuccessful products – almost twice as fast as their more decentralized peers. Killing products isn’t easy. Know the big picture. Rapid change requires rapid decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The researchers developed a tool, called SKILL (for Shared Knowledge Lifelong Learning), through which AIs learned over 100 separate tasks. The AIs then shared this knowledge through a decentralized network, after which they managed to master each of the tasks. The study highlights how AI agents continuously learn after each new task.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. They also said they were looking for growth and development at work , not simply short-term goals and personal financial gain.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. It’s an unrelenting focus on developing the best leaders at every level of your enterprise.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. Technology facilitates greater transparency and visibility throughout enterprise ecosystems. The company had traditionally focused its design and development efforts on new products.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And The advantages of MOOCs and, more broadly, online technology as a delivery channel, are real.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. The same goes for technology.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. These problems present opportunities not only for improvement but innovation. Are you and your organization working differently than others?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings? It is formed at conception and does not change.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 20, 2019

The latest project of this ilk comes from a team from Binghamton University, who have developed technology to detect suspicious activity in surveillance footage. Alas, the project didn’t take off and the company has folded, but that hasn’t stopped others trying to follow in their footstep.

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Decentralization Agility Document System 63

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. The HR Digest: Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about the Chamber’s T3 Innovation Network? Chamber of Commerce.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful. Now however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions.

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Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Advances in digital technology and their use in organizations carry huge promise to empower people at all levels. ” Dr. Craig Baker, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Southern California developed his private store of data, articles and videos into a public “brain,” accessible to students in his absence.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). If so, how?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Charan has turned his attention to these organization dynamics in response to CEOs recognizing that technology, operations, access to financial capital, and even strategic positioning statements are less differentiating than their organization’s ability to respond to opportunities. that enable organizations to win over time.

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Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival. In fact, these companies are not behaving chaotically. Keep your gaze on the customers.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Hence, when (re-)designing the organization structure, they tend to decentralize decision-making, so that decision rights are as close as possible to the people who deal with customers, competitors, front-line employees, and other stakeholders. Decentralization allows immediacy in time and place, hence responsiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

MD Anderson Cancer Center established its version of a value management office, the Institute for Cancer Care Innovation (ICCI) in 2008 with Thomas Feeley, a senior anesthesiologist and a coauthor of this article, as its head. One example is in the area of patient-reported outcomes.

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Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Lead from Within

MARCH 13, 2024

The world of work is undergoing a profound transformation, a metamorphosis fueled by technological innovations and shifting societal norms. A New Digital Frontier Enter Web3: The latest incarnation of the internet, underpinned by blockchain technology. Our journey through these important forces will make a big difference.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

One would assume that if the engines of innovation are working as the hype suggests, Schumpeter’s famous creative destruction would be happening at a rate seldom seen before. After the 1970s, it spread to other sectors, with the rise in information technology a likely factor behind that. “Corporate concentration (e.g.,

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Creativity Innovation Trends Information Technology 106

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Edwards Deming). Distributed Database.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In early June the SEC announced the appointment of one of the agency’s veteran attorneys, Valerie Szczepanik, as associate director of the Division of Corporation Finance and senior adviser for Digital Assets and Innovation. This is a welcome development. policy on cryptocurrencies. Go beyond the appointment of a crypto czar.

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Uncertainty Decentralization Innovation Finance 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

With blockchain technology, the core system that underpins bitcoin, computers of separately owned entities follow a cryptographic protocol to constantly validate updates to a commonly shared ledger. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. How technology is transforming transactions.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Technology System 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

To protect this vision from political pressure and regulatory interference, blockchain networks rely on a decentralized infrastructure that can’t be controlled by any one person or group. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. As it turns out, not very. Distributed Database.

Decentralization 10

Decentralization Consensus Resistance Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The group of companies held intensive discussions with stakeholders and experts to develop a collective understanding of the challenge and potential solutions. The vision resonated with government leaders, who were seeking a constructive way to work with the private sector to attract new investment and technology. To date, over $10.5

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Decentralization Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

When an epidemic is imminent, vaccines can’t be developed quickly enough because assuring their efficacy and safety requires trials that take months to years to complete. These are difficult to scale or decentralize. For example, our colleague who developed the first Ebola doorstep diagnostic authorized by the U.S.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Sample Incentives Development 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Marketing is not a part-time endeavor, and if you don’t have a qualified C-level marketing executive leading the charge, don’t just trust things to the most vocal staff member. I Think Not.

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