Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Most leaders are interested in growing their businesses through innovation, but it's risky business: most innovation efforts fail. After years of helping to make innovation happen as chief communications officer at Steelcase and as a consultant, I have a point of view that I'm willing to bet on. Don't lose sight of the horizon.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

A typical product or service comparison in most industries would show that incumbents usually have the best products in a given market, which reflects their obsession with high-margin customers. The New Tools of Marketing. The manager’s point of departure is classic market segmentation. A gold-plated product or service.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

In short, it's time for "Cessna" marketing, a look from 12,000 feet at American culture and commerce. As David Kamp points out in his wonderful book, The United States of Arugula , American cuisine is in a state of ceaseless innovation, routinely outstripping the culinary cultures from which it springs. It's just that he can't.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. ” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. “A chink in the armor. If so, try it.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. Disney’s existing contract to distribute Pixar films was slated to end in 2006 and Pixar had announced two years earlier it would not renew the arrangement.). It was a bold push towards the future.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Review how well your organization lives up to the established principles. Do reviews: Regularly (once a month), Collectively (involving everyone), and. These are just a few examples.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

An obvious solution is product placement, a company paying for its product to be featured prominently in a film or television program as a form of advertising. product placement market grew by 12.8% The trouble is that the huge success of product placement is causing a dip in its credibility and effectiveness as a marketing channel.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). market on China. market on China.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera. Consider the Norwegian technology company Piql.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

When big business leaders think about social media they tend to focus on three things: innovative technologies, marketing applications, and IPOs — the three factors that make Facebook and Twitter so hot. 15,000), a website, pirated films of wildlife massacres that were "youtubed", and a network of supporters in online forums.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. There are signs that market is forming: Marigold's arrival to U.S. There are signs that market is forming: Marigold's arrival to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. To survive, it has stopped selling film cameras, focusing on the digital ones that dominate the market. Organizations such as IBM and GE have adapted over the years to remain competitive in the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As the Internet of Things (IoT) spreads, the implications for business model innovation are huge. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Design Disruptive innovation Internet' Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

One of the most overlooked aspects of innovation is how much technology can enhance productivity. You can see this at work at Pixar, which was originally a technology company that began shooting short films to demonstrate the capabilities of its original product, animation software. That’s the hard part.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

For the past decade, emerging digital markets have operated under the assumption that, despite the obvious similarity between a music CD and an MP3 downloaded from iTunes, digital goods are different. In brief, resale markets are dangerous, especially for information goods. Which may not be as long as nervous media executives think.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

The Gates Foundation sees better toilets as key to fighting disease and improving lives; for business, what they represent is a huge potential market. I have come across many writings about entry strategies and product offerings for emerging markets, but little that addressed the sheer sizes at stake.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Bachelorette , a film starring Kirsten Dunst, created a small sensation this summer when it was released to video-on-demand (VOD) a month ahead of it's September 7 theatrical debut. Bachelorette is not the first film released this way, but it is the first to do so well. It would allow more effective marketing spends.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Before the announcement, the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio for Nigeria was 33%, compared to 270% for South Africa. Emerging market investors looking for upside potential in Africa will look at those numbers with interest. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%. Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. Yet leaders of both companies persevered despite these headwinds, setbacks, and challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

During a recent analysts call, Apple's Tim Cook cited India's multi-layered distribution as the main reason for his company's small share of the market. That's true of TV and film as well as other consumer products. The same challenge applies to start-ups that market solar lamps in India.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it''s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. You know those baby sea turtles that get eaten by birds and crabs on their way from the nest to the water?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As Kodak president Philip Faraci told a group of newspaper executives in 2008 (oh, the irony), one of Kodak’s biggest problems was the apparent stability of its core film business. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. Disruptive innovation Innovation' Disruptive innovation Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A good idea faces so many obstacles en route to market today that it’s a wonder we have any innovative products at all. Effective means of boosting innovation already exist, but not enough companies are making use of them. It’s like that. It doesn’t have to be this way. You can see why: For decades in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

A classic old film comedy, Being There , stars the late Peter Sellers as dimwitted Chance the Gardener, who tended the grounds for a wealthy elderly gentleman. Some companies that seek to enter new international markets do the philanthropic equivalent of showing up.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

And they’d all seen radial tires take over the European market. market in the first 18 months after their introduction. In much of the 20 th century, technological innovation produced products that had plenty of room for improvement, opening up opportunities for high-end disruption. This was no surprise to the top five U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

And yet, more than half of senior executives declare themselves unsatisfied with the financial returns of product innovation. Because their innovation models don''t determine where the growth is actually coming from. The value-destroying menace of cannibalisation is the dirty little secret of the innovation industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Kodak did not end up losing the film business because one day nobody wanted film. Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography. And those customers did not have to think about whether their friends were willing to look at pictures taken digitally.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

But rather than launch a resource-constrained innovation effort, Kraft took an arguably retro approach, drawing on its deep pockets to give leaders in key markets like Brazil a blank check — urging them to dream big and not worry about resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? You may think this is an issue for tomorrow—when Chinese firms are known for being innovators instead of imitators, and when their overseas investments are not limited to natural resources in Africa and Latin America. But what happens when China goes West? in a big way. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

During Tootsie, walking in the shoes of a woman had such a profound impact on Dustin Hoffman that, 30 years later, recalling his decision to make the film brought tears to his eyes in an interview with the American Film Institute. The same thing happens in business all the time.

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