Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. or China should get the gold medal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. The innovator's job is now to create wins across the board. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

We so need more innovative leaders like you to inspire these top talents! I work for a telecommunications company and occasionally I’m in the field dressing fiber optic cable in cabinet. Stay blessed! Ellen Mary Jo Asmus : October 20, 2010 at 8:32 pm Ellen, thanks for your kind words. It comes from the work my clients do.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Strategy'

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2011

Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World’s Fastest Growing Economies for Global Advantage Anil K.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Here are three strategies larger companies use to bring scrappy, entrepreneurial know-how into their established businesses. But how often is this qualitative feedback seen as a sturdy platform for innovation and growth? As a result they developed and successfully pitched the idea of alliance partnerships to telecommunications firms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Are competitors with disruptive strategies having a material impact on portions of the industry? Christensen's research shows clearly that transformation often comes in the form a disruptive innovator that makes consumption simpler, convenient, and more affordable. Executives that dismiss these developments do so at their own peril.

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System Christensen Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

At the moment that a disruptive innovation crosses into the mainstream market and establishes itself as a viable competitor, the third stage in a disruptive innovation's life cycle. In 2012 Square received a significant round of funding , and formed an innovative deal with Starbucks (which included an investment of $25 million).

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Disruptive Innovation Telecommunications Innovation Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. Innovation' That''s not right.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Retail pricing evolves into what Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) has termed a " confusopoly :" rather than compete on price, outlets start to engage in strategies to make price comparisons more difficult. In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Enter Henry Ford, who revolutionized the industry with his manufacturing innovations , lowering the price of cars from $2,000 in 1908 to just $260 by 1925 — an 87% reduction! But the most innovative Indian hospitals are doing much more. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Changing U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He advises some of the world’s biggest companies on environmental strategy. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. Tens of thousands of people are gathering to explore green building materials, designs, and strategies. and the West for best practices.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. And most of us revert to tried and true solutions — the enemy of breakthrough strategies and new innovations.

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Stress Telecommunications Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. This was a top priority in my first year as P&G’s chief executive, after setting goals but ahead of strategy.” billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4 billion to $11.7

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Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Apple is certainly known for its strong preference for internal innovation. There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios. Is that fair?

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. Take this example: One night Tom attended a celebration for a team in a telecommunications company that had drastically improved performance after implementing a new data quality measurement and control system. Together.".

Organization 15

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

They are not going to unfold their strategies below a very high level of abstraction. They are not going to unfold their strategies below a very high level of abstraction. For that they have underlings — even high-level underlings. Because it isnt their sport. Its not what got them where they are. Because it isnt their sport.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Build a joint local strategy. Consider the case of an Asian telecommunications company that found 20 percent of its marketing budget was being squandered in markets with the lowest lifetime customer value. Here are three important elements of the CMO-CSO partnership to get right: 1. A cargo airline provides another example.

Marketing 11

Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

In addition to lifting some travel restrictions, American financial institutions can establish accounts with their Cuban counterparts and telecommunication firms can export to and install equipment on the island. My company, Frontier Strategy Group, is now forecasting expansion for Cuba to be 3.1% This is why U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 14

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

However, Nokia ran into trouble by underestimating the speed at which technological developments in the United States, pioneered by rivals such as Apple, are transforming the mobile telecommunications business. Gupta is a professor at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland, and a visiting professor at INSEAD.

Globalization 13

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. A fast-track CEO succession should be the product of a deliberate strategy, not of desperation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Just as government and industry coordinated the telecommunications response after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the order enlists both public and private entities in assuring that critical infrastructure is continuously monitored and protected from attack. A comprehensive corporate cybersecurity strategy is required.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Apple is the poster child for how to make a disruption strategy successful over time. But Apple’s technological innovativeness is not the full story. Now that Apple has begun to compete on the same terms as Samsung and the other smartphone providers, there is no smartphone company that is a market-creating innovator.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Innovation Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. This landscape is evolving rapidly, in ways not even Google could foresee.

Software 15

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries.

Banking 15

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system. They have to monitor changes in the market on an ongoing basis and adjust their strategies when developments in the market demand change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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