Qmarkets

JULY 28, 2017

One common explanation is that due to strategic decisions made by Kodak's complacent executives, the company failed to move into the digital sphere well and fast enough. Another explanation usually focuses on the nature of digital technology and how it is interpreted.

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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. The CVCs in the sample: Gain and maintain support from senior leadership. Has the corporation considered all its innovation-seeking investment options?

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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. The CVCs in the sample: Gain and maintain support from senior leadership. Has the corporation considered all its innovation-seeking investment options?

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

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. The CVCs in the sample: Gain and maintain support from senior leadership. Has the corporation considered all its innovation-seeking investment options?

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Since the 1960s, Asian Americans have become the country’s “model minority,” largely due to significant increases in mobility that have mostly (though perhaps inaccurately ) been attributed to education. Why aren’t Asian Americans advancing into leadership positions? According to 2010 data from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

That''s a big change from only five years ago, when UX wasn''t on anyone''s radar outside the tech world. For example, the now ubiquitous and much beloved Fiat 500 was first unveiled by Sergio Marchionne, no stranger to showmanship, at the Geneva Motorshow in 2004 following the buzz generated by the 2001 re-launch of the Mini-Cooper by BMW.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

About the Research We looked at the background and performance data of 297 CEOs leading the largest companies in three different industries which are widely regarded as innovative: pharmaceuticals, high-tech, and fashion retail. There was no strong association between CEO background and firm performance in high-tech and fashion retail.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

Consider how your performance review — and career prospects — will look if you're labeled a "poor collaborator.". And collaboration technologies like shared calendars too often create a chock-a-block schedule of meetings, many-sided conversations, and a tangled skein of emails, IMs, and tweets. It makes the world go 'round.

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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. Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. If you want those new creative concepts to come forward, you must foster a corporate culture that incorporates five leadership principles of innovation: 1. in such dismal decline.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein have introduced a bipartisan bill that would require all tech companies to decrypt customer data at a court’s request. based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Further analysis confirms that this trend is not just due to acquisitions; the companies are delisted sooner even when the sample is constricted only to those delisted for financial troubles. Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. Having remote team members requires that we hire people who can deliver technically while working independently. As a result, our teammates voluntarily design new practice areas, conduct cutting-edge leadership research, and write books.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

But in a world where most companies don’t operate on the frontiers of digital transformation, and most employees aren’t tech geeks or app developers, our appetite for unconventional talent strategies should probably extend to more conventional parts of the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. He labeled the summit with his ultimate goal, “zero footprint,” and called his transformation effort “Mission Zero.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

But the key question is whether Cook can sniff out technology and market opportunities while knowing intuitively (or with the help of others) what risks to take. Apple's innovative future hinges on these critical senior-leadership skills. Jobs did this when he saw the mouse and graphical user interface (GUI) at PARC. Can Cook do this?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. It was far easier to create the technology than to get the management agreement to use it across functions and country units.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. Today people turn to digital cameras embedded in their mobile phones, share pictures over the Internet, and eschew prints altogether.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Jobs was so impressed that he took his entire programming team on a tour of PARC and returned to Apple hell-bent on developing a personal computer that both incorporated and improved upon the technologies he and his team saw. That's what an innovative leader does. Jobs agreed with Tesler. Lafley became CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve. Put other people forward, especially current HP executives who know more than you do about the technology and markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

Ciena CEO Gary Smith, the company’s CEO since 2001, describes how his company survived, regrouped, and resumed its growth. SMITH: I’d joined in 1997, around the time it went public, and became CEO in 2001. They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. My husband was one of the earliest investors in alternative energy technologies in the U.S., How have you worked to bring them on board?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. Gulati, whose research explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets, is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor at Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

It's been nearly a year since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop shot off his burning platform memo as a way of shaking up the phone company's leadership. To see why, please check out "Two Routes to Resilience," an article from Innosight-affiliated authors in the December issue of Harvard Business Review. Those kinds of payoffs require time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. While these experiments focused on high-tech equipment, the professors note that the findings hold true across many industries. Join the conversation. With John Gourville and Elie Ofek. John Gourville, the Albert J.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. And, as with Achan’s boss, they’re likely to see it as a positive indicator for leadership potential. How did he make this unusual career leap?

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IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

First launched in October 2001, Apple ‘s portable music device has revolutionised how we all listen to and download music. After all, the first portable MP3 players hit the market in 1998 and by 2001 there were over 50 different models available through which you could download and play music from your computer.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. At least not yet.

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Daniel Burrus

OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, as times changed, these entertainment personalities eventually burned out faster than they came in due to a sophomore slump of a follow-up to their viral song or movie that put them on the map. Everywhere you looked, you would be hearing the performer, band, actor or actress’s name, synonymous with their song or film.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2001. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. Marion Barraud for HBR. By 2003 I could no longer speak intelligibly or walk, and any muscle control became more difficult as the disease progressed.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 9, 2009

Portable Research: Observing Users on the Go – Nate Bolt As technology becomes increasingly portable, mobile, and ubiquitous, new challenges to traditional ethnographic user research arise. Make your project happen by distributing the work while showcasing UX leadership and maintaining momentum toward completion.

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MSSBTI

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Technological evolution follows similar patterns as biological. Much of it happens as a result of millions of small innovative changes that take place before the next technological era occurs. Well, Jaguar is also applying this technology to their automobiles. We just know it is coming.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Sixteen years later, that dominance is looking threadbare.

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