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The New Agents of Market Penetrations

Harvard Business Review

Technology companies signed up and supported them. Kenyan groups understand frugal engineering suitable for the local market and are carefully adapting mobile technologies with African flavors. This student mobility is an opportunity to accelerate technology diffusion to the developing world.

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Jack Welch’s Approach to Breaking Down Silos Still Works

Harvard Business Review

Welch was convinced that the speed of globalization and technological innovation in the 21 st century would require companies to work very differently – with shorter decision cycles, more employee engagement, and stronger collaboration than had previously been required to compete. They agreed to put limits on how much could be changed.

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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

With seemingly unbounded opportunity, salespeople work hard to build relationships and create a book of business that drives their future financial success and creates fast market penetration for the company. Leaders abandoned their plan to avoid losing top producers and their customers.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Think of it this way: To host a successful event you must plan carefully, invite the right people, have the right food, and manage competition with the party next door. It had the world’s first and best compact disc players.

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Why Comcast Would Rather Be Feared Than Loved

Harvard Business Review

Their market penetration has probably peaked , as younger consumers (among them many of my colleagues at HBR) increasingly opt for cheaper workarounds via their Internet connections. Customers Strategy Technology' If that''s right, the cable operators will only get more aggressive about this as the years go by.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

According to the theory of the diffusion of innovations — an attempt to understand how, why and at what rate ideas and technology spread throughout cultures — diffusion or adoption is relatively slow at the outset until a tipping point is reached. Saturation is reached at 90%+.