Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

” Airlines are also pursuing efficiency in ways customers don’t see so easily, such as reducing the number of short-haul flights they offer and centralizing passengers in large airports. Unable to create new value, airlines focus on increasing margins by cutting bottom-line costs.

Airlines 8

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Digital technology unfolded on top of a second force that had been building for a few decades: a global movement in public policy towards economic liberalization which was systematically reducing barriers to the movement of goods, money, people, and ideas across the boundaries of nations and industries.

Drucker 8

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The company appeared at this year's International Auto Show in Detroit with a mid-sized hybrid car that, at under $30,000, has better fuel efficiency than any other such product in the world. The Chinese now account for 80% of this market and will soon take it global. BYD of China can. These examples make clear that the U.S.

Incubator 13

Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Question whether processes should be improved, eliminated, or disrupted. Too many continuous improvement projects focus so much on gaining efficiencies that they don't challenge the basic assumptions of what's being done. Continuous improvement doesn't have to be incompatible with disruptive innovation.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

and Europe far less vulnerable to disruptive innovators, even though their e-payment technologies may in some cases be clunky and unreliable. Since XRP also relies on a blockchain technology (a more efficient one than bitcoin’s, in fact), it would also provide a central clearing system.

Banking 8

Banking Technology System Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

But even though we all recognize that the trains have to run on time, who wants to be mired in tedious operational details when you could be thinking higher-level thoughts about competitive global strategy? It’s where the money, influence, and intellectual horsepower reside. Naturally, the most-sophisticated suppliers gravitate there.

Training 10

Training Development Management Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Interdependent systems are well suited to situations where “the job-to-be-done” is not well understood, or the current solution is not “good enough” Modular systems tend to arise after the solution has become “good enough”, and help the industry participants achieve greater efficiency.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Modular systems tend to arise after the solution has become "good enough", and help the industry participants achieve greater efficiency. Disruptive innovation Global business' Underdeveloped emerging markets, with their weak institutions, can be seen as being in the "not good enough" stage.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Politics Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

As global oil producers work at cross-purposes, the industry’s traditional boom-bust cycle is being replaced by faster, shallower price rotations based on changes in production. oil supply may be enough on its own to meet all of this year’s growth in global oil demand. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

The industries most susceptible to disruption are those selling information-based services that can be delivered digitally – and a perfect example is the insurance industry. They are using digital technologies to increase their own efficiency and to improve the customer experience. Disruptive innovation'

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Like many of the Big Bang Disruptors we track, drones are piggybacking off the smartphone revolution, which has built efficient global markets for increasingly cheap off-the shelf cameras, processors, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and software that can be embedded in UAS. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.).

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

When the process for achieving certain economic development goals is known, governments can often ensure that process is followed in a coordinated manner more efficiently than purely private enterprise. This is because firms operating in free markets are much more capable of employing emergent strategies than are governments.

GDP 12

GDP Christensen Disruptive Innovation Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations. Like Smartphones, part-timerism''s global growth proliferates.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Or, how can we economically make lighting and air conditioning 80% more efficient? Use Convergence Thinking.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Ultimately, Accenture’s Disruptability Index positioned 20 industry sectors — and 98 segments within those sectors — against those two axes.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. The 20th century innovator who had the most impact was probably Henry Ford.

Innovation 15

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

As employees quickly adopt new technologies and collaborate globally, they’re an unconstrained force of change. Workers will always look for tools, processes, and approaches to improve efficiency and productivity. By empowering the user, IT takes the leash off this powerful resource — for the good of the enterprise.

Technology 8

Technology Trends Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

The names in the industry are global brands – BMW, Ford, Daimler. Unlike the average consumer, cloud transportation vendors will attempt to ensure they (or their drivers) buy the most efficient cars per mile, service them optimally, and retire them on the best schedules.

Industry 8

Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms. Platforms are all the rage these days.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Last year’s WEF Summit on the Global Agenda saw multinational CEOs, academics, and consultants alike preaching the need for business to adapt to the on-demand economy. Call it what you want: an iPhone, a Samsung Galaxy, a Nexus… when you boil it down to its core, it’s a genie in a little aluminum and glass bottle.

Transportation 8

Transportation Cost Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A middle manager at a global technology organization — let’s call her “Denise” — had a problem. The innovation would boost efficiency by taking the excess inventory of one business unit and shipping it to units that had deficits, thereby reducing inventory-carrying costs companywide.

Politics 8

Politics Innovation Project How To 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

” A fintech start-up enjoyed greater success piloting a security offering with a global bank. Technical people hope the pilot effort will seamlessly interoperate with existing tech infrastructures and processes, while business folks look for efficiencies, better customer experience, and KPI alignment.

KPI 8

KPI Innovation Ries Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. The main event is in getting spectrum into the market faster and more efficiently, placing it into the hands of enterprises able to do the most for consumers. Since 1994 the U.S.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Some of those so-called liquidity events are small by global standards, like the $30 million that customer service chat provider Zopim fetched. The clean, efficient city has some livability advantages over Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, or Bangkok. Global investors are increasingly taking notice. Serious government skin in the game.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency. In Gallup’s latest 142-country survey on the State of the Global Workplace , only 13% of employees were truly engaged in their work.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

As Jeffry Frieden’s book Global Capitalism recounts, under the fascist economic order the government, directly or through state-owned holding companies, largely controlled the economy. Let’s consider the third cycle (1940s–late 1970s), in many ways the golden era of antitrust action. The Emerging Anti-Monopoly Movement.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Stephenson Industry 8