Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Top-rated Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. Aicha Evans – Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

And they love to pursue them, deadline commitments or old strategies be damned. They forget that the strategy which took them from small to midsize has already proven itself a winner. So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path.

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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

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

AUGUST 18, 2015

Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. So what can strategy-makers learn from Alphabet’s example? Allows each unit to deploy the right approach to strategy and execution.

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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

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. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 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. Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu has stated "Promoting health literacy is a fundamental cost effective strategy." This means that nearly 23.5

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

That's one of my favorite guideposts for sustainable business success, and Verizon is my latest poster child for this truth of business strategy (and life). wireless service provider , is now adding the iPhone to its lineup. The game isn't over, and adding Verizon's other innovations might even change the game.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Canada, and Europe as well as serves on the boards of Omniply, Noctiluca, Summit Wireless, and Visionect. Peruvemba has also held senior level positions at Sharp Corp, Cambrios, Novasentis, TFS Inc., Planar Systems, and Suntronic Technology. Based in Silicon Valley, Peruvemba advises high tech firms in the U.S.,

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

There are already strategy lessons to be drawn from the contest. The Xbox 360 had the advantage of beating the other two consoles to market by a year, while the Wii introduced a novel motion-sensing wireless controller that allowed for significant innovation in gameplay. Strategy Tech industry Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The old way was about technology-centricity; the new way is about technology-empowered business strategies. The old way was information management; the new way is information intelligence.

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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. No strategy is static. Kroger has aligned its entire business around a “Customer 1st” brand strategy. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

For some time now, I've been observing that one of the central principles of strategy — that industries are a fundamental building block for strategic analysis — is being challenged. The Journal offers some numbers: The trend has been a boon for companies like Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

But although these flexibility strategies are critical to attracting Millennials, from our review of the current research and experience advising global Fortune 500 companies, we believe that businesses will have to go further to keep these workers truly engaged. These enhance opportunities for both innovation and Millennial engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

The mobile phone industry is massive, with close to 2 billion devices shipped annually and total spending on wireless-related services of more than $1.6 The world advances not because our needs, hopes, and desires change, but because innovators come up with different and better ways to help us do what we were always trying to get done.

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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. The strategy produces winners all around, including Aravind, which has been able to fund its rapid growth entirely with internal resources. But their winning formula is not a secret.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

I typically don''t go to this meeting, but was asked to speak this year and decided to stick around afterwards to learn more about the strategies broadcasters are using to remain viable in the face of technological progress and competitive pressures. Innovation Media Strategy' Key takeaway: We all need to build a brand!)

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. computers & peripherals, electronic equipment & components, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats. Not rising costs. Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We studied Omada’s program as part of our Harvard Medical School initiative to identify and share knowledge about innovative approaches to major health challenges that primary care providers play the lead in treating. Emphasis on outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

There’s nothing wrong with being in love with tech; we’ve all been there, because new technology enables innovative ventures. It’s not that you shouldn’t have to move on sometimes, but it shouldn’t be a strategy.” Innovation &amp Entrepreneurship Book. Nobody likes failure. Add to Cart.

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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. Strategies for growth in a connected world. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This isn’t the first time that Microsoft has rolled out a less than optimal pricing strategy. Microsoft quickly reversed itself on the DRM and, despite criticism, held steady on its $100 premium (which included a Kinect wireless motionless control). The results are telling: Sony claims that its PS4 has outsold the Xbox by nearly 2:1.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

A generation ago, incumbents that struggled to respond to disruptive innovations had an excuse. Sifting through this work highlights three seminal moments in any disruptive innovation's development: Conception. In 2012 a number of disruptive innovations came of age. 3-D printing. The Internet of Things.

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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. A good example of a company that''s applying this strategy today is TurboTax. Customer service Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

With leading companies such as American Apparel, Bloomingdale’s, Verizon Wireless, Swatch, and London City Airport already onboard with location analytics, it will become commonplace in venues — especially for major brands — over the next several years and a major competitive gap for those that don’t adopt the practice.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products. With barely any legacy infrastructure or status quo to be overcome, the existing commercial landscape feels ready for disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

With the newly found ability of digital tools to gather in-the-moment feedback, physical retailers can focus on continuous innovation and improvement, offering their customers an increasingly personalized experience that comprises the best of both worlds.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation. There is widespread agreement among economists that the current open, modular nature of the Internet has stimulated innovation and growth. That’s not the only slippery slope.

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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. Where do you want to be in this strategy? Communication Innovation Leadership'

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