Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

In a few years’ time, it may be on equal footing with gas in terms of competitiveness. We should never underestimate the potential for technological innovation. Investors will certainly look to this frontier of innovation to find companies with profit potential. It’s the long-term horizon that looks a bit bleak.

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Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2020

For example, an employee who spends her early career in the straitlaced but excellent Member Support environment of USAA in San Antonio and then moves to Vegas to join the wild-and-woolly world of the Customer Loyalty Team at Zappos is definitely going to need an adjustment period before she feels at home. Legendary stories. No “not my job.”.

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Airlines Mission Statement Customer Loyalty Mayo 109

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is despite the average startup today remaining private twice as long as was the norm in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. But anyone with near-term innovation targets with nine (or six or even four) digits in them should ensure they are familiar with the concept of "planning fallacy.". Then early results disappoint.

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Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” “Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long-term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values.”

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 26, 2021

The Covid pandemic has provided a multitude of harrowing stories of infections running wild in care homes around the world. “New large-scale long-term care home developments should be strongly discouraged.” ” Viral spread.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? While start-ups fail all the time, long-term investments create conditions that support the creation of viable disruptive entrants. It’s also worth assessing external variables that serve as early signs of longer-term change. But this is not cause for alarm.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. There is an ocean of difference between people innovating or designing new offerings inside a large company, and actual entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

But the more important part of the story, the lesson that applies to all kinds of companies in all sorts of fields, is that every one of these star performers faced at least one “near-death experience” during the course of its long-term success. It was a great idea for a conference, yet it amounted to a hill of beans.

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Company Long-term Conference Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Musk himself is ambivalent about the term. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide. ’” he said recently. The answer matters.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Our research on what we call the “founder’s mentality” shows that maintaining a strong insurgent mission is critical to long-term, sustainable growth. But to compete long term, insurgent companies also need to develop scale and scope, which very often dulls their insurgent’s zeal.

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Engineering Long-term Short-term Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Ethnic and gender diversity are important to business, we are assured, because they promote the kinds of product and process innovation that boost the bottom line. Yet Silicon Valley is also by far one of the most innovative collections of people not only in the U.S. But does that case have any relevance in Silicon Valley?

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Diversity Innovation Bottom-up Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Their aim was to determine if the companies in question became more or less innovative following the buyout. As Lerner summed it up for me in an interview, "There seemed to be a pretty positive track record in terms of technology companies after buyouts.". This simple strategy proved wildly successful. The Case of IBM.

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. But one innovation pitfall is particularly insidious because it doesn’t involve an outright failure; in fact, these product launches actually do well in the marketplace. How do you so?

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Productivity Products Price Arkes 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Or as thought leader Jennifer Sertl writes, "innovation ultimately begins on the inside.". The term "disruptive innovation" has become an industry buzzword. Hence, the Innovator's Dilemma: whether you innovate or not, you risk downward mobility. Be assured that you have no idea what will come next.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 17

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Don’t be timid.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Research by Sylvia Ann Hewlett at the Center for Talent Innovation shows that cultivating your personal brand is one of the best ways to attract a sponsor — and professionals with sponsors are 23% more likely than their peers to be promoted. Here are three strategies that can help ensure your talents are recognized.

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Brand Development Reputation Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

If all of this sounds familiar, then it should because not too long ago Apple faced a similar situation after its launch of the iPhone 5. How then can a new front-runner better manage market expectations and also strive to be more innovative? Samsung is now the undisputed leading vendor of mobile handsets and smartphones.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. The change will become invisible. But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

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Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It would create a “bully in the schoolyard” who could “cement the kind of monolithic monopolies that have plagued cable subscribers all along” and lead to a long-feared “media dystopia.”. Looking at the merger in terms of continued consolidation within the cable industry, however, misses the bigger picture. There is no cable industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. Whatever approach you choose, you need to create appropriate levels of digital technology synergy, brand integration, investment coordination, skill development, vendor management, and innovation over the long term.

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CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

A Dell-EMC study reveals significant differences in terms of willingness to trade privacy for services across countries and across different uses of digital applications; of 15 countries studied, Germans were most concerned about privacy and the Indians were the least. But it has a long way to go. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). A few examples: Dow put forth 2025 targets “to help redefine the role of business in society,” which aim to deliver breakthrough innovations and help build the circular economy. Wall Street wakes up. Blackrock, with $4.7 Blackrock, with $4.7

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

As long as the niche service has a true value proposition and a reasonable market audience, it can pull in profits. How do you ensure there will be demand for your product that can be reasonably sustained over the long term? A sound model doesn''t mean you can''t deviate from the model and innovate when it is the right call.

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Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

A day of heavy labor might produce a few bars of iron, 14 feet long and two inches on a side. But while Hasenclever took a long-term view of the colonies’ promise as a home for industry, his investors tired of his endless expansion plans. Innovation Technology'

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Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

"Project Frozen Dumbo" aims to collect genetic material from wild elephants in South Africa to stop the cycle. Generally, cross-breeding drives generally increase a species' long-term odds of survival by introducing new combinations into the gene pool. Don't suffer from innovation inbreeding.

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Innovation Wilde Long-term Banking 14

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Over the years, as I’ve tried to patiently persist and actively trust, I’ve found that God’s plan always unfolds for my long-term benefit, even if things get rough in the moment. The life of an entrepreneur is physically and mentally challenging so working on mind and body is the key to sticking around long enough to excel.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Innovators have to deal with particularly insidious lies — things that people say that they believe are true, but actually aren't. Innovators working on new ideas often show early versions to customers to assess "purchase intent." There's a great term in the psychology literature called the " planning fallacy."

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Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. These people couch their requests in terms of your benefit. I innovated programs which brought acclaim, prestige, fund-raising, community collaborations and more to that organization. Their opening line is: “What do you do?”

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Rather than tying up vast amounts of funds in a unicorn startup and waiting for the long play — an IPO or an acquisition — investors can see gains more quickly, and can pull profits out more easily, via ICOs. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Distributed Database.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The list of "once-in-a-century" storms, floods, and droughts this year is too long to list. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access. In effect, they are learning to balance long-term objectives against short-term fee maximization.

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Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. “And what we learned was sobering. And you don’t need a Ph.D.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Proponents say they also improve collaboration and innovation, and opponents report that they cause higher stress and lower concentration, motivation, and cognitive functioning. The only uncontested information about open office floor plans is that they reduce the square footage requirement for companies.

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Real Estate Energy Policies Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. economy by removing excessive restrictions on investment in innovative start-ups.

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