Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

Target predicts customer pregnancy in order to market relevant products accordingly. Organizations of all kinds benefit by applying predictive analytics, since there's ample room for operational improvement; organizations are intrinsically inefficient and wasteful on a grand scale. The system grades as accurately as human graders.

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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. Operations in a Connected World. The call center logs customer complaints. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

What is more important to company success, a strong external focus on customer experiences or an internal focus on effective and efficient operations? But while such customized services used to be enough to compete effectively, these retailers are now finding they need to improve their operational reliability too.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. Operations. Building an IoT offering requires design thinking from the get-go.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Combining the second-largest wireless carrier with the fourth-biggest entertainment company — one whose impressive assets include HBO and CNN — is likely to create an unassailable mobile-entertainment business. Broadband has made the experience of consuming content far better than it was with dial-up. Rejuvenating the core.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Realizing that business operations security is a business issue and not just an IT “thing” has become the new cybersecurity paradigm. This new operating paradigm requires business executives to seriously think about how they’re going to secure the entire enterprise. People Component of Cybersecurity Investing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

First, its CEO, John Legere, was ceremoniously kicked out of a Las Vegas party thrown by wireless rival AT&T. wireless carrier’s offer to pay up to $650 for new customers to switch to its service. Since early last year, T-Mobile has spearheaded what I call a value war — as opposed to a price war — in the wireless market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

political system, the business world has no rules requiring that every leader have a backup, or that every corporate chief executive has a chief operating officer. Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg appointed Lowell McAdam, head of Verizon Wireless, as COO and successor. Unlike the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Clearly, there has to be a better way to paint a car, but to make that operation more efficient and take cost out will require the development of a new process. It would be expensive, if even possible, to reprogram robots and machines to be able to accommodate daily changes in factory production schedules.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Airbnb has pushed the limits of designing its customer call center operation in Portland, Oregon. In fact, CEOs are starting to focus on how the workspace can lead to improved productivity. With an annual payroll of over $100 million, even a 2% increase in productivity translates to a savings of $2 million.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

For example, India has leapfrogged from no land-line telephones to the latest in wireless telephony. That revolution, in turn, is causing India to leapfrog brick-and-mortar banking to wireless banking for the masses. NPCI worked with banks and co-created this product in a very short time. NPCI used mobile as the channel.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. But other changes are also afoot, changes that could allow the human dimension of work to become more important.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

We're still operating with our primitive brain and, ultimately, we're primed to guard against starvation. 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. Evolutionary speaking, we're hardwired to store food in times of plenty.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

In other words, when will autonomous vehicles be safe enough to operate on their own? Cars are heavy, fast-moving objects, operating in public spaces. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Paul Taylor/Getty Images. And where will this technology work best? ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

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. ” This has been driving ever closer relationships between banks and mobile operators. .” These trends are not limited to customers.

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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. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. for three years.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This discount is directly targeted to tablet makers (to be more competitive against iPads) as well as notebook manufacturers (to take on rivals that use Google’s Chrome operating system). Microsoft quickly reversed itself on the DRM and, despite criticism, held steady on its $100 premium (which included a Kinect wireless motionless control).

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The advent of the internet and better devices has impacted the way people interact and how businesses operate. If your business offers its products and services online, you can use your smart TV as one of the best sales channels. You will allow more customers to visit your website and sell all the products and services you offer.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Without the internet and wireless communications, car rental by the hour was an impossibly expensive and tedious transaction for such a small increment of time. And that’s how it grew exponentially, operating today in 400 cities in 68 countries. That’s how Uber transformed the economics and nimbleness of taxi services.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. This practice ensures any issues are communicated properly to the product development and manufacturing teams, fixes are made to current products, and lessons are applied to future ones.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

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. It’s not just products. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

You develop minimally viable products, keep testing different market and product hypotheses, and pivot based on the market feedback you get. You expect to fail repeatedly and hope to eventually get to a product-market fit. It enables the product to function. It is almost never a product in itself.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

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. As a result, companies that want to build competitive products are required to pay for the technology they use.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Businesses are being impacted by a global skills shortage that is hampering manufacturing output and service delivery. In addition, the costs of producing materials, manufacturing goods, and providing services is rising due to labor costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

One of the surest ways of losing touch with real customers' needs and getting outsmarted by competitors is to enforce a monoculture in your organization, where competitive products are banned and employees only come into contact with your own offerings. Pay for products and services out of the company purse.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Because similar gaps exist between dozens of other hospital technologies, and clinicians are asked to perform hundreds of steps each day to deliver evidence-based care, unnecessary errors occur, and providers’ productivity has fallen , even while spending on technology has ballooned. Part of the solution must involve hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

When one person with a wireless connection can be an agency, a media company, or even a manufacturer, traditional advertising organizations have to change their culture, processes, structure, talent policies, resources, and even their business and revenue models in order to embrace the power of open systems being fueled by digital connectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Rather than serving as an adjunct to the core business, or merely a cost center, IT is becoming intrinsic to the very products and services that every company offers. There is Ford, using sensor data to monitor both how a car operates and the driver''s behavior, and seeking to apply analytics to improve the experience for the next generation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S. Finally, they evolve their business models and make products that are appealing, affordable, and accessible to the emerging middle class.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

What’s not clear, however, is how the IoT’s complex ecosystem — a loose network of interacting products and services, pictured below will evolve and proliferate and which companies will emerge as leaders. The red nodes represent platform companies; the gray ones are companies that provide a product or service. /i,"");}

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) Consumer-facing businesses : Any company that enters the market offering lifestyle and consumer goods products could benefit from demand that has been unmet for years.

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