Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Today, companies usually envision singular product offerings for the Internet of Things, resulting in store shelves with things that do not connect very well to other things once the consumer gets them home. Each product functions perfectly well on its own, but doesn’t connect to other things in ways we might expect.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. They hope AI can improve productivity, automate existing process, provide predictive analysis, and extract meaning from massive data sets. For them, AI is a competitive advantage, but not part of their core product. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. But the advantages of mass production outweigh those losses in most cases. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. It's about building products that transform the world and drive the humanity forward. Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where Technology Meets Societal Impact (Post 1). This type has an annoyingly loud mouth, but is relatively harmless.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. It's about building products that transform the world and drive the humanity forward. Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where Technology Meets Societal Impact (Post 1). This type has an annoyingly loud mouth, but is relatively harmless.

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Entrepreneur Ries Hammer Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This article is the first of a series I am preparing in collaboration with Dick Steele , a Board Member of The Deming Institute, to offer our thoughts on the legendary Toyota Production System and its connection to the management system within Toyota and how it was inspired by Dr. Deming. Figure 1 – Production Viewed as a System.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Retraining requires extra time they often don’t have,m and it can grind productivity to a halt. If you take advantage of the broad range of new technologies on offer, you can demonstrate to customers and investors that you are an innovative business that looks towards the future. Innovative Appearance. Best Benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. But the advantages of mass production outweigh those losses in most cases. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. These are the products and infrastructure elements such as solar panels and smart electricity grids that are reducing our reliance on petroleum and coal. has underwritten much of the technological innovation behind clean energy's progress.

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Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. When Uber entered the Chinese market, it soon learned it had to change its core product. There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

” Tell them why they’re losing their jobs, whether it’s because of a drop in demand, changes in technology, or productivity and quality issues. Work with suppliers to ensure that service and product quality are sustained. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Address “What does it mean for me?”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. In addition, Genesys began actively networking to build a talent pool, and even organized a two-hour event to introduce high school students to the company’s products.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? They create resentment among employees who are giving it their all, and they drag down productivity. Because innovation requires it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Abigail Noble: The other thing that we’re seeing is from the customer side — that they want things that have social impact and environmental responsibility and products that serve those needs. Whether it’s Warby Parker eyeglasses or Method home products or any one of a variety of other consumer products.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Facebook can even go after lookalike audiences, i.e. users who have already expressed interest in products similar to yours. Not only are engagement rates bound to plummet if you hammer users on their home turf with repetitive messaging, but you may end up losing more business than you gain. 3) Rotate ads frequently.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

New production, marketing, planning, and investment issues, requiring a careful look, come all the time. I’ve given passing thought to dieting, but other than a few points that have been hammered into all of us (e.g., “Too Information & technology Personal effectiveness' And confusing the two can lead to disastrous results.

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Travel How To Information Technology Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. production. Forced technology transfers and theft. Now let’s turn to the forced transfers or theft of digital technologies. Its excess capacity alone exceeds the total U.S. In May, the U.S.,

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