Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time.

Film 15

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time.

Film 15

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

And these factors have not stopped Western multinationals from succeeding in China in car manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods, and even sectors where culture plays a key role, such as beer, coffee shops, fast food, and the film industry. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. market on China.

Competitive Advantage 10

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

While 60% of drone usage currently relates to communications and media such as for film making and commercial photography, new higher-value applications are on their way, as drones have a significant advantage in terms of precision, convenience, and cost over more traditional solutions such as satellites and helicopters.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 9

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. 5) Operational Transparency -. Here is how it could look: i.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate. Blockchain.

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Trends Film Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

Banking 12

Banking Strategy Film Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

In the decades that followed Kodak established a dominant position in the lucrative film business, with its "you push a button, we do the rest" slogan demonstrating its commitment to making photography accessible to the masses. Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

But Chinese companies of all sizes are already operating in the U.S. Western companies should consider the long-term implications of partnerships with Chinese firms, in particular the issues of intellectual property and technology transfer. When a Chinese company operates in the U.S., in a big way. This assumption is false.

Automotive 8

Automotive Long-term Operations Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Kodak did not end up losing the film business because one day nobody wanted film. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography.

Film 8

Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

George Eastman didn't just create cheap new cameras and films; he created photographers. Steve Jobs didn't merely "reinvent" personal computing and mobile telephony; he reinvented how people physically touched, stroked, bumped and talked with their technologies. Today's Web 2.0

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt. Photo by Lorenzo Errico.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

George Eastman didn't just create cheap new cameras and films; he created photographers. Steve Jobs didn't merely "reinvent" personal computing and mobile telephony; he reinvented how people physically touched, stroked, bumped and talked with their technologies. Today's Web 2.0

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Supply Chain Kaizen Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Multi-billion dollar media companies, broadcasters, and cable oligopolies are having to compete for both eyeballs and revenues with a plethora of multinational technology and telecommunications giants who know more about viewer behavior. Video is no longer the cornerstone of revenue for cable operators.

Video 8

Video Telecommunications Early Adopters Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Steve Jobs was brilliant about understanding how technology vectors were evolving, yet even he screwed up royally, and often.

Film 8

Film Creativity Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Although a veteran in the film business, Katzenberg had no experience with animation and little appetite for it. It depicts a central film asset that in very precise ways infuses value into and is in turn supported by an array of related entertainment assets. Illustration: @1957 Disney.

Film 9

Film Franchising Industry Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The author’s Harvard Business Review articles are among the most highly read in the magazine’s history. In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. No wasted film, slides, or prints. Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

You used film to take pictures, got them developed in a photo shop, and mailed copies to relatives if you wanted to share them. AT&T was the only telephone operator in the United States; telephony was just one of many high-impact industries that were highly regulated and protected from competition. Consider 1980. Roughly half of the 4.4

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Film System Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Eighty-five percent of respondents indicated that a Big Data initiative was planned or in progress, with almost half using Big Data in an operational capacity. One of the benefits of Big Data approaches is that the advent of new Big Data technology platforms makes the process of asking questions less expensive and more cost effective.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Metrics Environment Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Michael Blake's 1988 book of the same name would be adapted into the 1990 Hollywood blockbuster western film directed, produced and starring Kevin Costner. Double Robotics integrates robotic technology to make human beings more effective and more connected. Double Robotics doesn't replace the human with a robot.

Technology 8

Technology Film Operations Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Kala spends hours every week reviewing and labeling examples of questionable content. The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain.

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And now Sony faces an alarming new threat of violence against theaters that show its film The Interview , which is at the center of this predicament. (By By way of an update, Sony has since decided to cancel its release of the film and U.S. Government Information & technology International business' It will be ugly.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Globalization Banking 8

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 11

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

But most importantly, I heard about some great new products and technologies. I saw this technology paired seamlessly with some regular fluorescent lighting and working well in an interior conference room. It's also remarkably safe for users and technology — you can safely dip an iPhone in the stuff.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The first (whose name is disguised to spare blushes) is TEKCO, a technology company. The company hired many open source technology developers to build new collaboration tools. Even operational efficiency was unaffected. TEKCO followed a traditional approach to an IT implementation.

Media 15

Media Consultative Restructuring Execution 15

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

APRIL 15, 2015

For Westerners at least, our working cultural definition owes a lot to robots in stories and film, as well as real-life robots past and present. By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. Technology' Form-factors, intelligence, and the purpose of robots can all vary significantly. How is this so?

Definition 8

Definition Ethics Industry Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

It''s only through history and books or films that my generation has a grasp of what life must have been like. Just recently, I had the chance to watch the German film, The Lives of Others , which won the 2007 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell. ” But perhaps there is a simple reason that the tipping point is arriving now.

Technology 8

Technology Learning Curve Tips Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. Fujifilm, for example, outlasted Kodak not only because it changed from being a film to an image company two decades ago but because it built its entire organization around its new approach.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2012

This approach can be applied beyond product features to business models and operating approaches as well. The entrepreneurial crowd has recently expanded its passion for technology to embrace user experience design. Some are core to the vision, while others are educated guesses. Include a strategic business model hypothesis.

Ries 15

Ries Business Model Entrepreneur Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it). Add Structure Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. Boston Scientific a few years back launched a secret project to reverse-engineer the technology of its single-source supplier of coronary stents. Judge McVeigh's punch line applies across a range of industries.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11