Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. In 1986, one of us (Takeuchi) and coauthor Ikujiro Nonaka published an article in Harvard Business Review called “The New New Product Development Game.” They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

Nonetheless, it is not a stretch to say that if you want to understand competition today, you have to think about inequality. Most people are used to thinking about inequality as the pay gap between a CEO and an administrative assistant, or a software developer and a manufacturing worker. There’s Too Much Competition.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Because software code is released in smaller batches, it is easier to identify the source of any problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Consider the case of an online advertising and software company serving car dealers. Automate account management. Algorithmic pricing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

The more your competitive advantage depended on maintaining that trade-off between richness and reach, the more vulnerable it would be. Competitive strategy Internet Business models' Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Sponsored by Accenture. What successful companies are doing right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001. As Rita Gunther McGrath describes in her compelling book The End of Competitive Advantage , in the 1980s Fuji was a distant second in the film business to Kodak. It was so close.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Someday, Apple's now 11-year-long run of nearly unbroken triumph (I'm dating it to the launch of the iPod in November 2001) is going to end. If Tim Cook and his colleagues can keep that strategic discipline, the company has a shot at maintaining its competitive edge. That is just the way of the business world.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The computer, software, telecoms, music, broadcast, publishing, photography, retail, and consumer electronics industries certainly believe so. But the better and more challenging question is, how would the automotive industry’s incumbents respond to genuinely disruptive competition? Don’t bet against him. I don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? A national cyber-guard or cyber Peace Corps equivalent, that would spread software and practices first around the US, and then around willing allies and friends abroad.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 23, 2014

In a flash of insight, he realized that software could replace pencil-and-paper accounting for everyone. They had users try their new software, Quicken, while they ran a stopwatch. Then they’d tweak the software and retest until processes that took an hour were reduced to a quarter of that.

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David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

In this blog post I’ll explain how it can be applied to explaining the competitive position of companies. This could be due to a favorable set of regulations, processes, brand, network and technologies or any combination thereof. Some companies enjoy a monopolistic position due to (historical) regulations. The reason is simple.

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David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

In this blog post I’ll explain how it can be applied to explaining the competitive position of companies. This could be due to a favorable set of regulations, processes, brand, network and technologies or any combination thereof. Some companies enjoy a monopolistic position due to (historical) regulations. Be under this line?—?and

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Those who work for the competition aren’t. Antitrust and competition policy are seeing renewed interest , including recent hearings on the subject by the Federal Trade Commission. In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software. Policymakers have noticed. Most industries in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. Agile software development. Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. Working software over comprehensive documentation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. information technology companies to disclose their proprietary source code, which is their core competitive advantage. trade deficit, but today it is half.

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