Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

I've spent the week in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , where billion-dollar companies unveil multi-million-dollar products looking for mainstream popularity, and where startups unveil ideas, looking for angles and angels. You don't make wireless Airplay speakers. Technology marketing needs to be shameless.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Although it's far too soon to tell whether that program will lead to a major new line of business, Whole Foods should be commended for continuing to innovate during the current economic doldrums when many companies have instead retrenched by making across-the-board cutbacks, even in product R&D. Wireless carriers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 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. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Take the case of Safaricom , Kenya’s largest cell phone company and creator with Vodafone of the popular wireless banking product, M-Pesa. Kroton started by developing innovative curricula for K-12 education in one province, and then grew to become a national leader in online higher education.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

In three recent blog posts we looked at the innovation mindset in individuals, profiling game changers Jerry Buss , Peter Jackson , and Shantha Ragunathan. Innovators maintain a laser focus on outcomes , avoid getting caught in the activity trap , and proactively "expand the pie" to make an impact. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

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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.

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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. The record labels grumbled that Apple sucked the lion’s share of the profits out of the industry, but it was too late. for three years.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. Nothing more than a tweak, they thought.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The proof is Cisco's own 2009 new product promise. Novel subtlety and nuance can be wonderful but my innovation heart belongs to obvious. This was obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. Successful firms have an established customer base, most of whom are satisfied with the products they are purchasing. They make products that they want to use.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Given that this intervention could prevent more suffering than many wonder drugs, one would expect that there would be zero market for a breathing machine that didn’t make lung-preventive ventilation as easy as possible. But in health care, few things work as expected. In recent years, there has been movement to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. With no means to track sales, little data is available, and channels are too fragmented for companies to forecast production and distribution with any degree of accuracy. These trends are not limited to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, when discount airlines started entering different markets, incumbent carriers typically panicked. For companies that enjoy large market shares – such as Microsoft – the thought of losing a major customer over price is cataclysmic. An innovative company creates a great product that is widely adopted and highly profitable.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

The champions I’ve known have been motivated by a host of related factors – generating personal visibility, drawing attention and resources to their domain, or being perceived as innovators. OnLive’s product enabled high-end video games to be hosted in the cloud and played from any device.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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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. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. This is not guesswork. Make the tough calls on people.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Few product releases are as hotly anticipated, fiercely competitive, or widely debated as those that keep the console wars waging.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

The Mississippi-born former IBM salesman, FedEx COO, and CEO of AT&T Wireless and Netscape Communications argues that funny sayings, especially if they involve animals, stick with people in a way that PowerPoint strategy slides usually don’t. So, it’s not just the fighter, it’s the terrain that they’re on, the market they’re in.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Recently, however, leading physical stores have discovered that they can also harness the power of powerful digital marketing tools and integrate them directly into the in-store experience. The New Tools of Marketing. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Insight Center. Sponsored by Percolate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. For instance, hundreds of employees at a successful global technology company I studied participate in auto-analytic experiments to find correlations between knowledge work productivity (the thinking self) and improved health (our physical selves).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

One set of rules, whatever they are, would be far better, especially for technically-complex and rapidly-changing products such as drones. Today, for example, no one should be surprised to learn that it''s easy for police to record calls over either wired or wireless telephone networks. Government Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Armstrong’s Killer App. Then he paused.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

Editor's Note: This blog was co-authored with Tang Wang, doctoral student at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Missouri, Kansas City. Smart phones will be the occasion for significant " reverse innovation " in the coming months and years, we believe. This is exactly the pattern of reverse innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. Similarly, when Renault entered India and introduced Kwid in 2015, Maruti and Hyundai had almost 70% of India’s large and fast-growing sub-compact car market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal. There are now more than 5.3

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or “churn” in marketing parlance, often involves offering incentives such as discounts to individuals identified as likely to defect. How to Brand a Next-Generation Product.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. Many tech companies have innovation- and engineering-driven cultures typical of nimble, improvisatory start-ups. Allows each unit to deploy the right approach to strategy and execution.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. Second, implement a culture of innovation across all grades, functions, and regions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get. You expect to fail repeatedly and hope to eventually get to a product-market fit. You get your technology into the market and see who wants it. Add to Cart.

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