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. Yet in retrospect it was far better to exit early rather than struggle ( as Dell and HP have ) with pricing pressures, commoditization, and supply chain issues.

Business Model 22

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 22

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2011

It did not hold on in the face of likely technological oblivion. A case in point, the Photo CD, a way of taking film to photo shops and bringing a digital product home. The problem was, you still had to pay for film and development, the precise thing that a pure digital route would bypass.

Film 12

Film Reputation Price Document 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

It uses all the tricks of theater and film to fool an audience into believing that what they are seeing, hearing, or even touching is the real thing. I have seen stagecraft applied successfully in recent projects at Continuum Innovation, a Boston-based firm with which I am affiliated. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Learning-by-Doing 15

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Film Transportation 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement. In the wake of rising housing prices, cities must provide housing that allows all workers to live relatively close to their jobs.

Real Estate 18

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 18

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. Yet in retrospect it was far better to exit early rather than struggle ( as Dell and HP have ) with pricing pressures, commoditization, and supply chain issues.

Business Model 14

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

Energy 14

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Digital technology overwhelmed Kodak’s once-formidable business in photography. When Innovation Is Strategy. How Boards Can Innovate. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market.

Company 14

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

It’s an online service that provides personal styling at affordable prices. Here’s how Lake brings it all together into a highly innovative, tech-driven personalization ecosystem: 1. Stitch Fix combines technology, data science, and the human touch of seasoned stylists to make personalization scalable.

Retail 8

Retail Early Adopters Business Model Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Technology Industry Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

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. What are the implications for corporate America when Chinese firms begin doing business in the U.S. in a big way. In the U.S.,

Automotive 11

Automotive Long-term Operations Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Just as the A's used analytics to find undervalued players who got on base at a disproportionate rate, your company can crunch data to find the offers your customers will respond to best, the price points that will move the most products, or the supply chain configurations that will wring out most cost.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many have to measure their success in terms of stock price and market share, and when those slip, everyone sees it happening, reads about it in the business pages, watches it on CNBC. When he saw Lenz filming, instead of really listening to, this critical meeting, it was the last straw. How do the best CEOs confront that challenge?

Abell 12

Abell Armstrong Uncertainty CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

This popularity has enabled Heineken to raise admission prices by more than 60 percent since 2009 and increase retail sales per capita by 100 percent from 2009 to 2014. They can permanently or temporarily showcase marketing campaigns and product innovations. In 2014, more than 740,000 visitors toured the historic brewery.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

This was the case with Netflix, whose well-documented pricing snafus showed a tone that didn't work for the social era. For example, Netflix might have a passionate set of enthusiasts who review films and recommend content in the same way that GoodReads offers book enthusiasts a venue to exchange ideas.

Banking 21

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 21

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

If they are particularly robust, they can drive down the price for first sales, undermining the opportunity for copyright holders to recover their high sunk costs. Since media purchases are often impulse buys, customers tended to be willing to pay a premium price to avoid even a short delay — buying hardcover instead of paperback.

Marketing 11

Marketing Licensing Short-term Long-term 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2019

Market research is an essential tool in developing and differentiating brands and services But the research business is rapidly being disrupted by the encroachment of SaaS competitors, emerging methodologies, lower pricing and easier consumer access. Relevant formats to consider, include: movie trailers and documentary films.

Storytelling 51

Storytelling Marketing Audience Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This failure is not for lack of effort — health systems are making massive investments in new infrastructure, technology, processes and managerial approaches designed to manage change, such as electronic health records, Six Sigma and Lean Management. Make hard decisions without relying on approval from senior leaders.

Health Care 13

Health Care Innovation Six Sigma Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Innovators betting on "out of the box" thinking or "faster, better, cheaper" innovation paradigms for success all too frequently find themselves — and their customers — disappointed. to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?" This turns more traditional notions of innovation value inside-out.

Human Capital 19

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

Innovators betting on "out of the box" thinking or "faster, better, cheaper" innovation paradigms for success all too frequently find themselves — and their customers — disappointed. to "What does our innovation really ask customers to become?" This turns more traditional notions of innovation value inside-out.

Human Capital 16

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Like any creative process, any entrepreneur who wants to invent, innovate, or create must be willing to be imperfect and make mistakes in order to learn what works and what does not. Instead, as Pixar historian David Price shows in his excellent book The Pixar Touch , Jobs believed that Pixar was going to be the next great hardware company.

Film 10

Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? In 2015, consumers will begin to see SVPA technology baked into their mobile phones. Where/how are people stuck?

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The business and civilian adoption of military technology is nothing new; we had mass adoption of the wristwatch after World War I when soldiers began attaching their pocket watches to their wrists for more practical purposes. But this is just the beginning — industry analysts predict the market to double in less than a decade.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

In recent years, many new sources of customer influence have become available thanks to technology advances, with significant new power to shape how customers think about products, services, and company reputations. Through digital media, even the "old" forms of advice are now more accessible and more potentially viral than ever before.

Advice 15

Advice Review Reputation Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

The widespread adoption of Eric Ries 's work beyond Silicon Valley has been a godsend for innovators. The Lean Startup has crystallized many of the ideas fundamental to successful innovation and provided companies with additional ways to understand and make room for rapid iteration, agile development, and in-market testing of new ideas.

Ries 21

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 21

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Napster, Amazon, and the Apple store have annihilated Tower Records and Musicland; digital cameras replaced film and then smartphones upended camera makers.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8