Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Libraries and other repositories of information and knowledge. Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Distribution centers and networks for retail products.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Products fueled by data and machine learning can be a powerful way to solve users’ needs. Classic examples include Google search and Amazon product recommendations, both of which improve as more users engage. Data products are a team sport. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups.

Productivity 10

Productivity Products How To Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Additional Information This is the first of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library. LearnTO Library materials come in a wide range of formats and are available for organization-wide access on an annual subscription basis.

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Marketing That Works. It's hard to overestimate the influence Ted Levitt's "Marketing Myopia" has had on the world of marketing and beyond. Its impact as a concept has weighed on generations of innovators: it's hard to imagine marketing malpractice without this antecedent.

Levitt 11

Levitt Marketing Library Maturity 11

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

While some still cling to the prejudice that 3D content is ‘gimmicky’, this kind of experience can illustrate your products and solutions in action using realistic settings that your customer will recognize. It’s important with emerging technologies to take hyperbolic claims with a pinch of salt.

Storytelling 112

Storytelling Content Software Brand 112

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

We have long taught that network effects can provide market power and sustained or even self-reinforcing competitive advantage (the best kind). However in 2018, Microsoft is struggling to retain customers within its ecosystem, and developers are offering many products that don’t rely on Windows. (I What has changed?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Library Travel Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

“We think that the market for AI software is rapidly commoditizing, and we believe we can assemble the needed capabilities ourselves at much lower cost,” was this company’s party line. How could the cognitive software market be commoditized when the marketplace is relatively new? Insight Center. No strategy is static.

Company 8

Company Library Software Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

I’m teaching a new course this semester on cognitive technologies (AKA artificial intelligence) to Babson MBAs. Many of them are new to this set of technologies, and seeing the topic through my students’ eyes has made me realize how overwhelming it can be. How robotics and machine learning are changing business.

Organization 8

Organization Software CRM Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. It used to be that “serving a city” meant selling a product or service directly to city governments.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Delivering great products is no longer sufficient for success. And as the Fire's limited memory, ho-hum processor, and and lack of camera demonstrate, great products may not even be necessary. This shift from products to solutions matters to everyone. — to deliver the best product. The innovation game is changing.

Strategy 15

Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The decision says little about the much bigger fight brewing over ownership of digital products — e-books, digital music files, and electronic copies of movies and software. What role will first sale play in a future where all information products, like software, are increasingly produced and distributed entirely through the cloud?

Marketing 8

Marketing Licensing Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Chief among these, in my mind, is the threat to free market competition. Today, we see companies building their IP not solely on technology, but rather on proprietary data and its derivatives. As ever-increasing amounts of data are collected by businesses, new opportunities arise to build new markets and products based on this data.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Engineering McKinsey Library 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. They needed a designer, and he thought the project was a good way for me to try my hand at a consumer-facing product. They needed a designer, and he thought the project was a good way for me to try my hand at a consumer-facing product. JUSTIN TALLIS/Getty Images.

Examples 11

Examples Environment Library Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. As with the internet in the 1990s, executives are realizing that this new technology could change everything, but nobody knows exactly how or when. Make Talent More Productive.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

It is walking, talking, and continuing to pretend it's alive, but Spotify , Europe's outrageously successful streaming music product, has just shown us the future. To appreciate the truth of this claim, it's vital to understand one of Clayton Christensen's theories on marketing and product development: Jobs-to-be-done.

Christensen 16

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Price Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It also must face a diverse set of national regulatory restrictions, such as those that limit what content can be made available in local markets. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Netflix did not try to enter all markets at once.

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists. What are some examples?

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Metrics Stage-Gate 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The two reports – one by a subcommittee of the new National Science and Technology Council , and a second on AI and R&D — were prepared with remarkable speed, especially relative to the traditional pace of government. Of course, early adopters also risk exposure to the costs of learning and of less-tested technologies.

Policies 8

Policies Report Technology Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Up until the late 1950’s, anyone interested in sending bulk product across the globe placed that product in 60-pound burlap sacks, sent those to the docks, and entrusted longshoremen to tuck them efficiently into nooks and crannies in the hulls of merchant vessels. Courtesy of Boston Public Library.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. The coming battle in antitrust will not be about controlling markets in the traditional sense.

Company 9

Company Engineering Operations Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. And is the key to success here the technology, or fundamental segmentation and buying-process criteria? are picking up steam.”

Media 10

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 10

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2013

Economic and technological changes are reshaping the nature of work. Having a great job does not guarantee your career success; your competence no longer depends on what you know; and being an affluent consumer matters less than becoming a sought-after product. Self-branding is about being a signal in the noise of human capital.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Brand Mass Marketing Reputation 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

The first is to design products that shift control of personal data toward consumers (and away from data-brokers and gray markets ). This combination of open government data and social learning works differently than many of the apps you use now, which may rely solely on voluntary user reviews or marketing data.

Engineering 8

Engineering Information Technology Information Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. Regional agreements grant preferential market access to firms in member countries. If a country fails to join, its producers will face higher costs of serving those markets than their competitors. More recent agreements reflect the new realities of global production.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

We typically think of companies competing over products — the proverbial "build a better mousetrap." By building a digital platform, other businesses can easily connect their business with yours, build products and services on top of it, and co-create value. Consider the market for smartphones.

Strategy 8

Strategy Succession Retail Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. Let’s say you’re in the energy sector. Find Pivots.

Skills 8

Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

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. The old way was about technology-centricity; the new way is about technology-empowered business strategies. CDs to MP3s? Transformation Drivers.

CIO 8

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Courts ultimately decided that Google Books constitutes fair use: millions of books buried in library archives are now discoverable through Google searches but are only revealed in snippets. The Beastie Boys sued the toy company, claiming that since the video was aimed at selling a product, it cannot be deemed fair use.

Technology 8

Technology Open-book Information Technology Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

With headquarters in New Jersey and another office in Manila, KGDV offered a range of services, including market and legal research, but its largest and fastest-growing business was for the publishing industry—converting, indexing, and abstracting journal articles, which its clients, mostly U.S.-based “What do you mean?”

Case Study 8

Case Study Morale Policies Library 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Healthcare data is also highly prized on the black market because there are so many lucrative ways to use it fraudulently, so it’s often a more attractive target than financial or other personal data. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

Health Care 9

Health Care Forrester Policies Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Just as traditional television will be with us for many more years, so will traditional television advertisements.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9