Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

John Browne : Business exists to serve society; it is the engine of human progress that feeds, enriches, warms and delights us. In the basic resource sector, companies that can cooperate well with local communities and governments are much more likely to secure deregulation, which promotes innovation.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 10, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Uncategorized I just remembered you… RSS Feed I just remembered you… By Rajesh Setty on Sat 09 Aug 2008, 11:17 PM - View Comments Since last week, I have been receiving requests about the new search engine Scour. The invitations are something like this Did you hear about Scour?

Engineering 28

Engineering Licensing Newsletter Blog 28

Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

He aggressively re-engineered the startup’s product to match the competitor’s offering. Recent Readers Visitors Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. The competitor fought back too. Darren on Why MANY smart people think they deserve a better position at work?

Licensing 28

Licensing Newsletter Engineering Comparison 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

invests vast amounts in innovation – $135 billion from federal government sources alone in 2015 – yet it lacks a coherent intellectual property strategy to ensure that the investment pays off. Is the U.S. naïve? It’s puzzling. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S. Like large corporations, the U.S.

Licensing 8

Licensing Technology Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2015

Priceline’s unique “conditional purchase offer” – which allowed bidders to make low-ball offers which they were bound to honor if accepted – was an innovative solution that taught a big lesson: when underused assets are more fully exploited, everyone can win.

Innovation 8

Innovation Licensing Directory Document 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Imagine the engineers working in the product development labs at Volkswagen A.G. develop three innovations: a suspension for a smoother ride, a more fuel efficient ignition system, and a better safety restraint system. The strategic question for the company then is: which of its brands will carry each innovation?

Brand 8

Brand Innovation Engineering Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

For instance, in the early 1990s, the Mahindra Group faced a forgetting problem of nearly gargantuan dimensions: the end of the so-called “License Raj” system. Under License Raj, the Indian government licensed and tightly regulated domestic businesses while excluding foreign competitors.

Company 8

Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Imagine you are the CEO of one of Britain’s oldest and possibly least innovative insurance companies, The Prudential. Or you are a supervisory board member of Mannesmann, a solid German engineering company, and your executive team suggests that the company bid for a mobile telephone license. When Innovation Is Strategy.

Licensing 8

Licensing Competitive Advantage Proposal Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

” By emphasizing solutions as the engine of growth, Beinhocker and Hanauer wanted to cast capitalism as a force for prosperity (as the system that churns out the most constant stream of superior ones). We’d like to add a wrinkle to Beinhocker and Hanauer’s argument. Imaginative problem-solving is part of human nature.

Christensen 12

Christensen Technology Drucker Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Companies like Rolls Royce design and manufacture jet engines. The answer is “yes.” Not, really.

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Coupled with that our Usability engineers made some changes based on the feedback they received from “ eye-gaze tracking &# and hotspot analysis. Recent Readers Visitors Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Co-branding , of course is an out-of-the-box feature.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. The frontier economy has unimaginable appeal to the skilled engineers and savvy entrepreneurs. Musk is celebrated worldwide, and deservedly so.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Given that Google has a European market share of more than 90% in general internet search services, licensable smart mobile operating systems and app stores for the Android mobile operating system, E.U. antitrust authorities seem to believe that Google needs to be policed from stifling innovation in the marketplace. The differing U.S.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. For over a century, General Electric has had a focus on product innovation as a key driver of growth. Why is that?

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

What struck me was that most of the participants — young, tech-savvy programmers, engineers, and others — seemed largely uninformed or unconcerned about intellectual property. See the HBR blogs " The Case for Stealth Innovation " and " Stealth Innovation Is Not a Solution." Innovation' Following participation.

Participative 8

Participative Licensing Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As Machiavelli pointed out in The Prince roughly 500 years ago, there is no constituency for innovation: "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." How have you seen people react to changes in their work?

Process 15

Process Bureaucracy Innovation Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Since the courts are about to make a ruling that will profoundly affect its prospects, it might interest you to learn more about how its entire business is engineered to exploit existing copyright law. has no television license tax. So what's the real innovation here? First, this service takes full advantage of unchallenged U.S.

Licensing 8

Licensing Content Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

An example of such a strategic chunk would be knowledge of the procedures to follow in designing a specific aircraft engine (structured) or how to assemble the design team to develop a new type of aircraft (tacit). To transferring knowledge by licensing or selling it? Figure 1: Map A. — or letting go, and how to go about it.

Knowledge Management 15

Knowledge Management Tacit Knowledge Management Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

Innovation 12

Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

In the hearings, Justice Roberts echoed the appellate court’s dissenting judge who called Aereo’s technology platform a sham: “a Rube Goldberg-like contrivance over-engineered in an attempt to avoid the reach of the Copyright Act and to take advantage of a perceived loophole in the law.” Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.

Technology 9

Technology Business Model Innovation Content 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

medical-device maker, a planned new heart defibrillator had to be scrapped after five years of expensive effort because the company's quality engineers did not meet federal requirements — due to their inadequate knowledge and skills. For instance, at one U.S. Use analytical techniques to find and cultivate talent.

Skills 14

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. While this provides for rich discourse and creative license, it may inadvertently create multiple fiefdoms. Much has been made of the fact that autocratic leaders like Steve Jobs are often key to success in innovation.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Supply Chain 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

I want you to think about acquisitions from this perspective – anything that has been well engineered or properly developed has also been heavily invested in. or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish.

Real Estate 302

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 302

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. Finding that it helped ease his jet lag, he decided to license the product and sell it in Austria under the name Red Bull Energy Drink. In the U.S., immigrants are almost twice as likely to become entrepreneurs as native-born U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

This means that royalties and licensing agreements execute automatically and instantly—and artists get paid first. Today, blockchain technology is ushering in the second generation of the Internet, and if companies don’t want to get left behind, they’ll need to dodge the Innovator’s dilemma and disrupt from within.

Technology 8

Technology Cost Credit Rating Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. So to better understand how Google innovates, I took a close look at what it’s doing in one area: Deep Learning, a devilishly complex form of artificial intelligence that helps machines to absorb and act on information much as humans do. Innovating the core.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This technology becomes handy for the technical communicators, engineers, and developers when receiving instructional and design requirements from clients in PDF form and needing to edit or revise them. One challenge technical communicators face is communicating with developers and engineers about software or hardware updates or changes.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Four million subscribers later, Khoja was running the largest company in Afghanistan and still marveling: " Those were our engineers."

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. Four million subscribers later, Khoja was running the largest company in Afghanistan and still marveling: " Those were our engineers."

Innovation 11

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Companies, which have been reducing their spending on early stage research for three decades, have been increasingly turning to universities to perform that role, seeking access to the best scientific and engineering minds in specific domains. Minneapolis, with the University of Minnesota and its dedicated Earl E.

Long-term 8

Long-term Company Licensing Engineering 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. Crushing the “Propaganda Stations” In considering radio license renewals in 1929, a certain station caught the attention of Hoover (now U.S. president) and his regulatory minions.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Some regenerative medicines stimulate our bodies to regrow or repair, so the field can include the use of stem cells for tissue engineering. “To be able to do that, they need to entice companies to come to Japan, and they need to entice their own pharmaceutical companies to license in and obtain the best.”

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Content Licensing Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

Engineers at Google might be getting paid more than engineers elsewhere because they’re better engineers. Some will succeed, and effective innovations will spread rapidly. Instead, Bloom says, GE has specialized in engineering and coding. Others will try and fail. Bloom thinks outsourcing is a cause as well.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

A brilliant engineer and chemist with General Motors and DuPont, Midgley held over 100 patents. As a final illustration of the downsides of some innovations, I mention Midgley’s development of an automatic bed, using ropes and pulleys, to get him in and out of bed when he sadly contracted polio. In 1944, the bed strangled him.

Chemicals 12

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

This type of innovation requires a multidisciplinary team of physicians, hardware and software engineers, clinical study coordinators, and experts in commercializing medical technologies. AliveCor has licensed the technology.). The resulting algorithm outperformed the supervised approach — but it wasn’t perfect.

Mayo 9

Mayo Health Care Technology Learning-by-Doing 9