Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Whether you’re a digital start-up or an institutional entrepreneur, three simple heuristics offer an excellent way to determine whether a fledgling innovation initiative should be put out of its misery (and yours). Almost all innovation efforts have the hiccoughs and bumps in the road. 1) No Pleasant Surprises. That is fuel.

Innovation 11

Innovation Learning Curve Benchmarking Compliance 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Insight Center.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success. But not before we learn from it.

Short-term 63

Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 63

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

For example, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) built a leading 40% share of the Chinese fast food market through patiently tailoring its product offering to local tastes and building a strong team of local managers. And fortunes can reverse quickly if managers don't progress their multicultural understanding as markets continue to evolve.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

One of the most effective ways to launch a successful disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry is by building your business model in the “other” category. Uber is trying this in other markets too, in cities like Los Angeles.). Why is Uber going into the food-delivery business in Barcelona?

Transportation 8

Transportation Licensing Disruptive Innovation Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Most of us couldn’t have foreseen many of those segments’ second-phase products: live blogs, interactive content, streaming music, playlists, and peer-to-peer banking services such as those offered by Transferwise and Zopa. Some industries, meanwhile, are way back on the learning curve.

Advertising 8

Advertising Banking Learning Curve Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

The reason: There''s a big learning curve with Big Data, one that companies such as Netflix and Amazon had to embrace in the 1990s to deal with hundreds of millions of customer clicks. It''s a learning curve that most other large companies have not yet faced. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today. Philanthropy is the market for love.

Learning Curve 9

Learning Curve Advertising GDP Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

And it wasn’t alone – another audio leader, Sony, similarly lost market share in electronics because of its analog bias. 3D printing, or “additive manufacturing,” essentially digitizes the production process. An equivalent challenge is now looming for companies in many industries.

Organization 8

Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Based on the user’s actions, a game can quickly adapt to the learner’s individual skill level and learning curve — clear advantages vis-à-vis books, articles, or seminars. The learning curve of a game can thus be tailored to the individual player, without overwhelming them as reality often does.

Seminar 8

Seminar Learning Curve Strategy Comparison 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.). Our results suggest there’s still time to climb the learning curve and compete using AI. However, we are likely at a key inflection point of AI adoption.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Determined to explore how today’s philanthropists are harnessing market forces to make a difference in the world, and what they are learning, my team and I conducted interviews with several of the most prominent: from Ackman and Cohen to Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson and Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Hedge CEO Education 8

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. If you enjoy your work, you'll be more productive, more motivated and a better team player.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

Innovation 10

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

High Costs, Learning Curves. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression. The stock market is down 25%. Corporate scandals of each of the last 10 years cost the U.S.

Ethics 58

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 58

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages and otherwise high costs of doing either nothing or doing the wrong things. There always must exist a learning curve. Research shows that we learn three times more from failures than from successes. Product recalls. Unsuccessful marketing.

Planning 50

Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The discipline they brought to these often loosely-run businesses drove much of the post-war productivity boom. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products. Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

The pressure to be productive from Day 1 is enormous. I recommend that clients shorten the learning curve by helping every new hire put together a Relationship Action Plan. Market share shifts in pilot regions. Whether you’re a virtual team leader or team member, there’s no honeymoon period anymore.

Team 8

Team Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Fed up with Beijing’s industrial espionage, market manipulation, and cyber attacks on the West, coupled with its bullying of neighbors and repression at home, the Trump administration announced a series of strong steps to fight back. SAUL LOEB/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Software Learning Curve 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

becoming the second largest smartphone market in the world. The average age of its citizens will be a youthful 29, and many of them will be eager for digital products. Clearly, there’s awareness and connectivity between major corporate leadership and the prospective tech market in India. Although only one-fifth of its 1.3

Price 8

Price Globalization Forrester Marketing 8