Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Given that this intervention could prevent more suffering than many wonder drugs, one would expect that there would be zero market for a breathing machine that didn’t make lung-preventive ventilation as easy as possible. One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The lesson is really quite simple: Technology isn't free. Technology is at the heart of competition in a growing number of industries. Companies compete to develop new products and features that will entice customers to buy their products instead of their competitors' and hopefully to pay a premium price for what they have to offer.

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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. For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology. Marketing is no place to be modest.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Wireless communication.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

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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. million students and a market capitalization of $11 billion. Last year it merged with another for-profit firm to become the world’s largest online educator, with 1.2

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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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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Smart TV technology is more than the usual television you will find at any house. It’s easy to browse the internet, play games, interact on social media, or video call using this smart technology. This is an impeccable digital marketing strategy that has worked miracles for many businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

What other company incites such a frenzy when it releases an updated version of its product? The multinational technology company suffers from what I call a “curse of awesomeness” – it’s under tremendous pressure to continue breaking sales figures. It’s like getting the latest technology for “free.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. By serving the price sensitive market, Apple will grow its business with new early-bird customers. Prices for the 5S in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

But while this conventional wisdom applies to mature technologies, it is often wrong during the early stages of major new technologies. Musk tells us “We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. By serving the price sensitive market, Apple will grow its business with new early-bird customers. Prices for the 5S in the U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The first product should lead to another, to another, and by the time the shopper's reached the checkout, she's bought more than she intended. One can only assume that mobile technology will be Anders' next assignment. It will make use of contextual marketing , targeting our already strained hip pocket.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. How technology is changing the way we work. But where and how do you start? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise. Why is this?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

.” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.” ” Zipcar , the company I co-founded, qualifies as a disruptive innovation because it created a whole new market: demand for cars rented by the hour (as well as by the day). This was not world changing.

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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. 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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. 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. And cellular technology is leading the way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. The proof is Cisco's own 2009 new product promise. Technology couldn't have been the issue. That's technically akin to selling a hi-def tv without a remote control.

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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

Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M. An example: delivering paid sports content over a 4G network with segmented advertising that is both location-dependent and paid for through betting is a breakthrough idea yet to be delivered in any market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. Train engineers to incorporate security into products by using modular hardware and software designs , so that a breach in one area can''t take control over other parts of the system. The internet is built on open standards.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Few product releases are as hotly anticipated, fiercely competitive, or widely debated as those that keep the console wars waging.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. 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

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Recently, however, leading physical stores have discovered that they can also harness the power of powerful digital marketing tools and integrate them directly into the in-store experience. One of the most exciting areas of development is the marrying of mobile apps, location sensing technologies (e.g., The New Tools of Marketing.

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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.

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

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Businesses like Facebook are filling an internet access gap in emerging markets that others, including the public sector, may simply never be able to address. of its population has internet access (at home or over a wireless device); other estimates, such as that from the World Bank , suggest that the number may be even lower, 15.1%

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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. And in just one evening, I found my solution in the form of 4G wireless connectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Sometimes exploration means creating inventions; sometimes it means acquiring small, inventive companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Legislating ahead of emerging technologies, history has made amply clear, is always a recipe for unintended negative consequences. One set of rules, whatever they are, would be far better, especially for technically-complex and rapidly-changing products such as drones. Each new technology gets its own analysis.

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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 result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

OnLive’s product enabled high-end video games to be hosted in the cloud and played from any device. AT&T was the ideal partner and investor for OnLive: they were playing catch up with Comcast in high-speed internet access for the home and with Verizon for wireless. The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson.

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