Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2021

Such an entrepreneur is open to infusing new talents, innovations and creativity into the business to strengthen it and guarantee its longevity. Technology-based employee training offers a stack of solutions that address all parts of their learning needs. Inspire innovation. Build a Culture of Taking Risks.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2016

It’s laughable by today’s standards, but, back in 1988, I spent countless hours in the New York City Library doing the research needed to complete my first book…and, it was that first book that launched my career. Yes, I did it the old fashioned way — I bought books and read them.

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CO2

DECEMBER 24, 2010

They have been studying over the past decade innovation within established organizations. In the process they have compiled perhaps the most extensive library of innovation case studies in the world. If you are struggling with innovation in your organization this is a must read. There is just one little problem.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

As game-changing technologies transform every business process, they also give us the ability to create new products and services that were impossible just a few years ago. Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. CDs to MP3s?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Provide “Worthless” Rewards.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Here are three examples of what is possible: Libraries. Rarely do any of these have a useful library. There are 1.8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Our research on major innovations finds that when disruption occurs, technologies don’t replace technologies; systems replace systems. These new therapies could face a similar fate if prices can’t be brought down. Something has got to give. New business models.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

If you want to win their hearts and minds, you have to master the latest technology, assimilate vast quantities of data, engage and delight your customers, and deliver products and services that surpass expectations. And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

It is walking, talking, and continuing to pretend it's alive, but Spotify , Europe's outrageously successful streaming music product, has just shown us the future. But innovation theory can provide a crystal ball; theory could have predicted iTunes' success and it's currently predicting Spotify's success. iTunes as we know it is over.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

The innovation game is changing. Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success. And as the Fire's limited memory, ho-hum processor, and and lack of camera demonstrate, great products may not even be necessary. This shift from products to solutions matters to everyone. — to deliver the best product.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2012

Polymath status is accessible to just about anyone with a modem, a library card, and the desire to learn. And, most recently, MIT and Harvard teamed up to launch edX , a "planet-scale, technology-enabled" online education platform that offers college courses for free. Information is everywhere, and it's often free.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Innovation starts with new and novel ideas. When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Finding ideas is never the problem — initially. Find Pivots.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. They needed a designer, and he thought the project was a good way for me to try my hand at a consumer-facing product. They needed a designer, and he thought the project was a good way for me to try my hand at a consumer-facing product. JUSTIN TALLIS/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). This medium has been my preferred reading choice for a number of years now because it is extremely productive and time effective.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The two reports – one by a subcommittee of the new National Science and Technology Council , and a second on AI and R&D — were prepared with remarkable speed, especially relative to the traditional pace of government. Of course, early adopters also risk exposure to the costs of learning and of less-tested technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Like Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence in literary criticism or Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things in product design, Levitt's half-century-old treatise on examining what business your company is really in hovers over and continues to influence entire schools of thought. Its clarity and its ambition.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. There’s an old saying I love: “When an elder dies, it’s like a library has burned down.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

From The New York Public Library. Exponential technology change. The CHREATE teams developed a topography based on the degree of the democratization of work (the impact of the first three trends above on an organization) and the degree of technological empowerment (the impact of the latter three trends), shown in the figure below.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

At that moment, looking up from the bottom of the escalator, the idea that I would one day run a technology company seemed unfathomable. Louis Gerstner created an environment that gave new employees like me a chance to innovate and compete. Worries and logistical distractions hurting overall productivity is one thing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In the past year, the technology has managed to dip to a price point and the functionality has become attractive enough that a consumer market is really materializing. Product manufacturers of various types have been evaluating and increasingly using this technique—also known as known as "additive manufacturing"—for years.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Courts ultimately decided that Google Books constitutes fair use: millions of books buried in library archives are now discoverable through Google searches but are only revealed in snippets. The Beastie Boys sued the toy company, claiming that since the video was aimed at selling a product, it cannot be deemed fair use.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

Such steps are insufficient: indeed, the climate action we need involves innovating at a systems level, not just improving the performance of the components of that system. Rebuilding cities will cut auto emissions much faster than technological innovation in the auto industry. and internationally. Buildings, for instance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

They were more productive than similar plants not targeted by activists, and had higher return on assets. ( In a separate paper , two of the same researchers found that firms targeted by activists also became more innovative, despite spending less on R&D.). Find this and other HBR graphics in our Visual Library.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Yet by rethinking the use of personal data from the ground up, entrepreneurs can mine new opportunities for experimentation and innovation. The first is to design products that shift control of personal data toward consumers (and away from data-brokers and gray markets ). Entrepreneurship Government Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It’s within this climate that an enticing seed of an idea is being planted: blockchain technology has the potential to get the music industry’s messy house in order. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Napster was an innovative idea that made music more accessible to music lovers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2015

But to make a difference, these products must be integrated into the daily lives of the population and the daily workflow of health care providers. A case in point is using technology to assist the elderly in adhering to their medication regimens. Having multiple medications with different refill dates creates too much complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation. Innovation Strategy' An HBR Insight Center. Why Germany Dominates the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

But even factoring in ease of access — no more sifting through card catalogs or microfiche in dark libraries — attention remains scarce. Online ones are dressed for education, allowing a student to examine an entire entry with various multimedia products. There is clearly room for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Last week Apple''s Tim Cook made fleeting reference to "new product categories." As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. There are three questions here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The decision says little about the much bigger fight brewing over ownership of digital products — e-books, digital music files, and electronic copies of movies and software. What role will first sale play in a future where all information products, like software, are increasingly produced and distributed entirely through the cloud?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

The business world is about to witness a new era where transformative technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and 5G come together, opening up a world of possibilities. Businesses primed to leverage these technologies to streamline everything from supply chains to sales and marketing will be riding the wave’s crest.

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