Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Looking Glass Factory in New York/Hong Kong, offers display products that have been used in enterprise settings and their latest offering allow phone and professional cameras to capture realistic holograms. The first products have already begun hitting the market in Asia. Planar Systems, and Suntronic Technology.

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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

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

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

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

As generations-old business models are upended by innovations in retail, financial services, bookselling, and a host of other industries, companies must continually adjust their strategic positioning to edge out rivals. But then it recovered by innovating — fast. McDonald’s provides an excellent illustration.

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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.” Uber doesn’t.

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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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CO2

JULY 6, 2010

We have gone back to our labs and retested everything, and the results are the same— the iPhone 4’s wireless performance is the best we have ever shipped. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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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

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

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 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 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

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

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions. Turn services into products. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

All too often, much-touted “revolutionary” innovations offer only incremental benefits at best; at worst, they are a costly distraction. The products are shipped directly to customers’ homes, where they can browse and purchase what they like. If nothing appeals, customers can skip a month at no cost.

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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

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. You bring joy and entertainment to people.

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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

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

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

JUNE 13, 2017

Because similar gaps exist between dozens of other hospital technologies, and clinicians are asked to perform hundreds of steps each day to deliver evidence-based care, unnecessary errors occur, and providers’ productivity has fallen , even while spending on technology has ballooned. But we are far from where we should be.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

We have identified five ways executives can adapt management and communication styles to engage Millennials and improve productivity and outcomes across the board: Create a deeply compelling vision of what the company or team is contributing to society. These enhance opportunities for both innovation and Millennial engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Today, innovative customer service means being able to contact a company on multiple platforms — not just by phone, but via email, web, Twitter, Facebook, and mobile devices. Self-service knowledge bases — or your online customer resources for product information, FAQs, and how-to''s — will not only reside on web portals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

One of the surest ways of losing touch with real customers' needs and getting outsmarted by competitors is to enforce a monoculture in your organization, where competitive products are banned and employees only come into contact with your own offerings. Pay for products and services out of the company purse.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

While Microsoft may be the primary option today for high-end devices, were I that CEO I’d certainly demand a discount coupled with a veiled threat to work with Google to upgrade their Chromebook OS to be more applicable to fuller functioning products. 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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

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. So now, Equity Bank account holders can pay for purchases with a swipe of their phone and access a wide range of financial products much faster and cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Workers will always look for tools, processes, and approaches to improve efficiency and productivity. Security and identity management typically aren’t thought to improve user experience or productivity, but a lack of security can bring productivity to a halt, especially in today’s connected workplace. Augmentation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

But they will be used for "softer" disciplines too, like innovation and creativity. As one analyst sums up : "the company is.developing an entire wearable/detachable computing platform and ecosystem comprised of wireless sensing systems for monitoring.sports activity, athletic training, medicine, fitness and wellness in humans.".

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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 platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. This is not guesswork.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Many retailers, from Macy’s to Walgreens, are already experimenting with location-sensing technologies, with most of the focus to date on navigation, location based promotional offers, and reviews of nearby products. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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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. If it works, it’s a product. If people hit on it, it’s a product.

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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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