Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

All too often, much-touted “revolutionary” innovations offer only incremental benefits at best; at worst, they are a costly distraction. Due in part to this innovative approach, Fabletics drew more monthly unique website visitors on average in both 2014 and 2015 than competitors Lululemon and Athleta.

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JULY 6, 2010

We have gone back to our labs and retested everything, and the results are the same— the iPhone 4’s wireless performance is the best we have ever shipped. Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton). Demand for both devices and bandwidth is sharply on the rise; the field is awash in innovation and forecasts call for expansion touching all corners of the globe for years to come. UPWARDLY MOBILE. You'd think these would be a mobile company's salad days.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. It is shaping the new game of industrial businesses on a worldwide basis and showing other companies, regardless of their size, complexity, and history, how to proceed. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods. It’s a Sisyphean task.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

After all, the conventional wisdom holds that patents are essential to keep competitors from imitating innovations, especially for small startup companies. If rivals imitate, they will drive down prices, wiping out the potential profits on innovation, thus making it difficult or impossible to earn a return on R&D investments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Today, innovative customer service means being able to contact a company on multiple platforms — not just by phone, but via email, web, Twitter, Facebook, and mobile devices. But how can businesses best prepare? Customer service Innovation Technology' Build more robust knowledge bases, and make them easy to access.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. Consumer demand for innovative digital services, when executed ably, seems unquenchable; and that demand is stimulating capital flows. Morgan Stanley projects that 3G penetration will reach 22 percent by 2015. Yes, there are challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. With plans already in progress to provide internet service via low-latency, low-Earth-orbit satellites; 5G and beyond wireless technologies; and almost-unlimited cloud storage, the hyper-connected world is fast approaching. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. According to the website , a partnership broker is "someone who works as an intermediary building effective and innovative collaboration" in non-traditional partnerships and cross-sectoral networks. The world is coming apart in many interesting ways. I recently bought an iPad.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. Most immediately, they can look to these communities for tips on how to start or adapt auto-analytic experiments. What's the skinny on how auto-analytics might be helpful to you?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9 ” Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Barksdale was the veteran of IBM, FedEx and AT&T Wireless (he mostly worked at it when it was called McCaw Cellular) who was brought on a few months after Netscape’s founding to provide adult supervision as its CEO. That’s the question that’s always the hardest for an incumbent to ask, because that’s the classic innovators dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Specifically, it requires reimagining the business you are in, empathizing with your target customers and their challenges, and creatively determining how to most effectively solve their problems. The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

With leading companies such as American Apparel, Bloomingdale’s, Verizon Wireless, Swatch, and London City Airport already onboard with location analytics, it will become commonplace in venues — especially for major brands — over the next several years and a major competitive gap for those that don’t adopt the practice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

These include: Vastly improved information systems: While electronic medical records are getting most of the media attention, the bigger breakthrough will be wireless and seamless information management of all facets of the hospital — medication, staff utilization and location, equipment availability, and more.

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