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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. In recent years, Indian firms such as Dr Reddy's have also started globalizing their R&D footprint by moving into Western markets. Reliance MediaWorks.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. What does the availability of re-usable infrastructure do for digital innovators?

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Social media spending? Conversely, why market cigarettes? And in terms of its effects on managerial decision-making, the new system should create feedback and incentives that nudge managers toward innovating for tomorrow's world, not optimizing for today's. The number of people affected by an innovation. As the late C.

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