Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand.

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Disruption Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 28

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 9, 2009

A Fundamental Disruption: Moving Information Architecture into the Hands of Individual Consumers – Peter Sweeney & Robert Barlow-Busch A fundamental assumption in information architecture is that producers need to organize their content before consumers can access it effectively. We love the work we do.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Design Conference 45

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up. It’s still worth a look now.

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Disruption Competition Internet of things Industry 14

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

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." On September 3, 2001, HP announced that they would acquire Compaq. •On Why is that? How do I know?

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Roadmap Disruption Software Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. Ballmer was a world-class executor (a Harvard Business School grad and world-class salesman) of an existing business model trying to manage in a world of increasing change and disruption. The result?

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Artificial Inteligence Disruption Creativity Software 15

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 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. Christensen even said back in 2007 that the iPhone "was not truly disruptive" and probably wouldn't succeed. That is just the way of the business world. Which is a lot easier said than done.

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Strategy Strategy Disruption Software 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Steve Jobs’ successors are at least an order of magnitude more credible as disruptive innovators than the heirs of Ford and Sloan. The computer, software, telecoms, music, broadcast, publishing, photography, retail, and consumer electronics industries certainly believe so. Don’t bet against him. I don’t.

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Design Disruption Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. It's not just standardizing and streamlining.

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Agile Disruption Software Development Software Developers 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Africa’s growth has been well chronicled in Harvard Business Review. disrupt our competitors’ models? In the race for opportunity and influence in Africa, no competitor looms larger than China, which has increased its total trade with Africa twenty-fold since 2001. commercial engagement in Africa. How the U.S. Can the U.S.

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David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

The Disruptability Curve presented in my previous blog , is a modest addition to this collection. The Disruptability Curve has two axes. This could be due to a favorable set of regulations, processes, brand, network and technologies or any combination thereof. The Y axes denotes the barrier of entry to the industry.

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Software Review Technical Review Competition Roadmap 49

David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

The Disruptability Curve presented in my previous blog , is a modest addition to this collection. The Disruptability Curve has two axes. This could be due to a favorable set of regulations, processes, brand, network and technologies or any combination thereof. The Y axes denotes the barrier of entry to the industry.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Competition Roadmap 40