Moves the Needle

AUGUST 14, 2018

When designing something, (ie: a technology, a product, a marketing material…) it is paramount to keep the needs of the end user in mind. There has to be the component of agility to match that of the customer baked in to the company strategy. In this way, lean innovation and design thinking go hand in hand. Competition is now global.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. But first they need to get management of a company to change their existing strategy. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years.

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Innovation 360 Group

JULY 4, 2019

At the other end of the spectrum, we’ve also looked at companies that ignore their DNA and pursue market strategies unrelated to their strengths. Holding onto old tech after new tech changes the industry structure. Developing technology but lacking pathways for successfully introducing it.

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Innovation 360 Group

JANUARY 28, 2020

Innovation is essential as a strategy for risk management, but it’s more than that. 1 spot in digital camera sales as recently as 2001. You may remember the three innovation horizons from the last episode, but it’s worth reviewing them again for clarity. In fact, Kodak did adapt and developed digital cameras as early as 1975.

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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. My previous post in the corporate venture capital (CVC) series provided a broad historical perspective on the sector. Understand the spectrum of corporate 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. My previous post in the corporate venture capital (CVC) series provided a broad historical perspective on the sector. Understand the spectrum of corporate 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. My previous post in the corporate venture capital (CVC) series provided a broad historical perspective on the sector. Understand the spectrum of corporate investment options.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. Why be the assembler when you can be the Venture Capitalist behind the next big technology wave? mgriffin_uk . +44 44 (0) 7957 456194.

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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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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. ROI : Speaking the Language of Business – Eric Reiss What is the business value of Information Architecture? and “Why should I care?&#

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. Inventory challenges aren’t new. In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped.

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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

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. No strategy is static. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Kodak created a digital camera, invested in the technology, and even understood that photos would be shared online.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

After the 2001 recession, the rate of growth was lower than before the recession. From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not. Technology will affect them, but the impact will take longer and may be less deep than other areas. million per year.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights. How to Miss the Boat – Five Times.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

Due to a sustained decline in fertility, there are fewer young people entering the labor force than there are old workers leaving it. This is surprisingly old — such levels were reached in Japan from 1999–2003 and in Germany from 2001–2004. Opening to other Asian economies was also part of the strategy.

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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. of executives in the five tech companies mentioned above, while Asian men comprise 13.5%.).

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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. What I am pretty sure about is that the how of Apple's fall (or continued rise) will hinge on strategy — because strategy has driven its success. How do I know that?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. That''s a big change from only five years ago, when UX wasn''t on anyone''s radar outside the tech world. UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. He was right there in the middle of it.

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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

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. What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance. So that’s sustainable strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

In 1986, one of us (Takeuchi) and coauthor Ikujiro Nonaka published an article in Harvard Business Review called “The New New Product Development Game.” Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. corporate groups have shed their "my way or the highway" lobbying strategies. 50, February 2001). It is time for U.S. Since the U.S. government represents U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

In the decade since September 11, 2001, Americans have learned how to get along in a new world. America's technological superiority and unparalleled resources allowed it to obliterate the world's seventh largest army in a matter of weeks. military to execute the deliberate strategies that were developed at the military's highest ranks.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

It was a late evening in 2001 — in the small Indian town of Kozhikode — when my friend's father, Professor Salahudheen shared this advice, "Son, job hunting is a different art. The Indian job market was growing significantly because of an influx of positions in the technology sector.

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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. You're saying you'll find financial fixes now, bold strategy in December. It's a safe bet that resumes are already in play.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Consider the recent history of Apple and Microsoft, two tech companies no longer run by their visionary founders, and how each has competed in red or blue oceans. From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. If the idea got far enough, they developed marketing campaigns, sales strategies, and launched it. The technology was great. HP rise had been remarkable. Sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Bernard Arnault, for instance, the executive chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, was clearly in the same frame of mind when we caught up with him in a 2001 HBR interview. The first requires that top managers understand and explicitly determine how innovation fits within the larger corporate strategy.

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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. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C.

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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 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. Customer intelligence is at an organizational inflection point. Become "tempered radicals."

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