Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. That’s still true.

Technology 8

Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. Innovation Strategy Technology'

Venture Funding 10

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Dealing with disruptive innovation is difficult at any time, in any industry. And even if they'd succeeded, their news operations would be endangered anyway. That's because, once a monopoly was established, the editorial content of a newspaper had no detectable impact on its financial success. In the U.S.,

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Business Model Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.”

Strategy 8

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. So early preparation is needed. The lessons to date on driving digitization and robotics suggest operating on a dual track.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

But we believe that successful firms can treat cognitive technologies as an opportunity to evolve or grow from previous work. Two good examples of combining well-established practices with cognitive technology to achieve business success are American Express and Procter & Gamble. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A team creates a groundbreaking new innovation only to see it mired in internal debates. When it is eventually launched in the market, there is an initial flurry of sales to early adopters, but then sales cycles become sluggish. But when it comes to innovation, the truth is often “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

Productivity 11

Productivity Products Software Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. Decision making Operations'

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. But success or failure on sustainability goals cannot be measured only in terms of profit and loss. To truly shift the needle, however, we need a new wave of TBL innovation and deployment.

TBL 9

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Rethinking the time-honored processes upon which our daily operations depended would require overcoming the complacency that pervades many large academic medical centers. We enlisted experts in operational effectiveness and service excellence, and both leaders and front line staff were trained on the principles of lean manufacturing.

Health Care 8

Health Care Ishikawa Lean Manufacturing Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Learnings from these early adopters can jump-start the efforts of others. When Virginia Mason applied appropriateness and safety standards to patients referred for lumbar fusion, it found that 58% would not qualify for this major operation. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Both activities are necessary to ensure strategic success and corporate longevity.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 9

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. This third phase has led to large private equity organizations governing their assets in a unique way.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. The second question providers must ask is how they will measure the success of their virtual care services. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Strategy Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Despite its success online, relatively few companies with physical venues employ advanced analytics solutions that track customer behaviors in their physical spaces. Already, the scale of data collected by early adopters of this technology is staggering. Operations.

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs are ripe for some kind of disruptive innovation that would make them easier to use. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Early adopters could benefit considerably. The result is a maze of point systems and redemption options, with cumbersome processes for exchanging points among program partners.

Loyalty 9

Loyalty Customer Loyalty Travel Hotels 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology. However, even these commodity offerings can find ways to innovate and survive. So much so that it is being likened to a foundational technology , much as the internet was in the early 1990s. As with all such innovations, a global standards war is under way.

Insurance 9

Insurance Industry Market Penetration Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The idea was presented to BIDMC’s senior-management operating council and then to the Board’s IT oversight committee. To launch I2B2, the leaders of that effort assembled a coalition of senior IT people, throughout Harvard’s hospitals, who became early adopters. Wise analysis.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Innovation and change. They are leaders in driving innovation, building on their existing advantages in efficient and effective ways. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Like digital platforms, social media, martech, fintech, and numerous other innovations, the spoils of blockchain may go to early adopters who commit to ruthless innovation. In all of these scenarios, content creators are empowered to produce relevant work that is valued proportionally to its success. Related Video.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Technology Content 8