Leanstack

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Friendster launched in 2002 and grew to 3 million users in two months. Before 2002, getting to 1 million active users within a year was a big deal. If your competition is as clueless as you are, simply trying to anchor and position against them can be fatal. Myspace launched in 2003 and grew to 5 million users within a year.

How To 52

How To LEAN Engagement Strategy 52

Adam Hartung

AUGUST 2, 2015

in 2002 , in order to grease the wheels for faster ecommerce growth. eBay has run into stiff competition, as CraigsList has grown to take over the “garage sale” and small local business ecommerce. Many customers simply had no card, or didn’t trust giving out the information across the web. About $8B/year each.

Marketing 36

Marketing Disruption Competition Leadership 36

Planview

MARCH 3, 2017

The expectations of millennials (born between 1982 and 2002) differ from previous generations. As competition continues to increase it is imperative that brands in turn continue to improve and enhance their customer experience. Lesson: Deliver experiences for millennial customers.

Company 45

Company Study Trends Marketing 45

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders. In 2002 Novartis relocated its research headquarters from Switzerland to Boston and hired Harvard Cardiologist Mark Fishman as its leader. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center on American Competitiveness.

Competition 15

Competition Leadership Collaboration Policies 15

David Marks

JUNE 22, 2017

Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) was introduced back in 2002, Amazon was a fledgling web retailer mainly known for selling books cheaply. An open culture encourages employees to share and develop new ideas. Efficient processes streamline ideas into products.

Innovation 40

Innovation Roadmap Culture Leadership 40

David Marks

JUNE 22, 2017

Technology leadership forges a competitive advantage. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) was introduced back in 2002, Amazon was a fledgling web retailer mainly known for selling books cheaply. An open culture encourages employees to share and develop new ideas. Efficient processes streamline ideas into products.

Innovation 40

Innovation Roadmap Culture Leadership 40

Innov8rs

MARCH 26, 2023

In a corporate context, this could be seen as an entrepreneurial mindset, always seeking out new opportunities and taking calculated risks to stay ahead of the competition. Leaders who embrace this mindset are more likely to identify fresh opportunities and stay ahead of the competition. Can You Match Adele's Talent (not as a Singer)?

Disruption 52

Disruption Strategy Strategy Groups 52

Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Sector: Chemicals Company: Dow Corning Learn more: Source Competitive pricing for bulk orders No technical support Cisco outsources all of its manufacturing to contract manufacturers.

Examples 52

Examples Technical Support Software Learning 52

Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

Sector: Chemicals Company: Dow Corning Learn more: Source Competitive pricing for bulk orders No technical support Cisco outsources all of its manufacturing to contract manufacturers.

Examples 52

Examples Technical Support Software Learning 52

Anaqua

MARCH 4, 2019

Business alignment will lead to not only more focused patenting strategies, but also more effective plans for pruning, licensing, and competitive actions. Filed back in 2002, 124 Grants are still active in this very large family relating to video encoding technology. Download Now.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Trends Roadmap Big Data 40

Anaqua

MARCH 4, 2019

Business alignment will lead to not only more focused patenting strategies, but also more effective plans for pruning, licensing, and competitive actions. Filed back in 2002, 124 Grants are still active in this very large family relating to video encoding technology. Download Now.

Analysis 40

Analysis Technical Review Trends Roadmap 40

Planview

MARCH 3, 2017

The expectations of millennials (born between 1982 and 2002) differ from previous generations. As competition continues to increase it is imperative that brands in turn continue to improve and enhance their customer experience. Lesson: Deliver experiences for millennial customers.

Company 40

Company Study Trends Marketing 40

Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey. Beware of the lure of outsourcing.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Competition Course 40

Adam Hartung

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Office 365 revenues were up, but they are cannibalizing traditional Office revenues – and not fast enough to replace customers being lost to competitive products like Google OfficeSuite, etc. Azure is in a growth market, but it faces very stiff competition from market leader Amazon. It is a struggle to see the good news here.

Leadership 36

Leadership Marketing Report Competition 36

Wazoku

JANUARY 9, 2020

1880s and 1890s – Efforts to raise productivity A growing concern about the standard of Britain’s labour force, particularly when compared with Germany and the other industrial nations, led to a rise in an emphasis on training to increase productivity and competitiveness. The digital revolution.

Training 52

Training Technical Review Innovation Technology 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

By analogy, firms with competitive advantages in those areas will need to move faster to capture those opportunities that present themselves. It took five years or less for cellphones to accomplish the same penetration in 1990. As you can see from the chart, innovations introduced more recently are being adopted more quickly.

Technical Review 19

Technical Review Technology Competition Strategy 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. Here's what you have in common with them: Analytics can provide you with a competitive edge.

Company 14

Company Industry Leadership Competition 14

Adam Hartung

MAY 15, 2016

Quick Rundown: In January, 2002 Kmart is headed for bankruptcy. He should have sold outdated brands under intense competitive pressure, such as Kenmore, to a segment supplier like Best Buy. One chart pretty much sums up the story, as investors are now realizing bankruptcy is the most likely outcome.

Trends 36

Trends Technical Review Innovation Leadership 36

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1

Case Study 17

Case Study Learning Leadership Competition 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

This changed the basis of competition for PC manufacturers. IBM was able to sustain some differentiation when it first introduced its ThinkPad line of notebooks in the early 1990s, but much of that came from its early investment in color TFT flat panel displays that were so important to making notebooks competitive with desktops.

Software 15

Software Competition Strategy Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

He adapted the moving assembly line process for the manufacture of automobiles, which allowed him to manufacture, market and sell the Model T at a significantly lower price than his competition, enabling the creation of a new and rapidly growing market. But in doing so, Henry Ford froze the design of the Model T.

Innovation 18

Innovation Disruption Competition Design 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Brazil has evolved as a major agricultural power, gathering highly competitive agribusiness companies and becoming an important center of resource and development. This perverse fiscal system destroys the competitiveness of Brazilian companies and stimulates tax evasion. growth in the Gross Domestic Product in 2010.

Policies 15

Policies Competition Marketing System 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

This venture ended up not being competitive with YouTube, which Google ended up buying for over $1 billion. Google Answers (April 2002 to November 2006). Radically different business model with assumptions that didn't apply. Google Video (January 2005 to January 2009). Dodgeball (May 2005 to January 2009). That didn't work out so well.

Technical Review 16

Technical Review Video Analysis Competition 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. Because they are so accessible, it is very difficult to generate competitive advantage from any of them. But guess what? Insight Center.

Strategy 15

Strategy Strategy Internet of things Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. When the U.S.

Software Review 18

Software Review Technical Review Collaboration Leadership 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Competition severe? Because our observation period was from the 1970s to 2002, we do not claim that these companies will continue to outperform in perpetuity. Markets down? Market hype? He did not care. He built a system of fanatic discipline to achieve the quest, no matter what.

Leadership 17

Leadership Analysis Disruption Creativity 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers. While it's true that size once created competitive barriers and correlated with market power , it no longer does.

Innovation 20

Innovation Industry Creativity Crowdsourcing 20

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Gardner, who died in 2002 at the age of 89, was a legendary public intellectual and civic reformer — a celebrated Stanford professor, an architect of the Great Society under Lyndon Johnson, founder of Common Cause and Independent Sector.

Conference 15

Conference Competition Learning Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When Sir Dave Brailsford became head of British Cycling in 2002, the team had almost no record of success: British cycling had only won a single gold medal in its 76-year history. Taken together, we felt they gave us a competitive advantage. So there must be effective enforcement, in cycling as in any competitive arena.

Competition 15

Competition Brainstorming Training Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

For me this produced a flashback to Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles Burck’s book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done , published back in 2002. Calling some choices “strategy” and some “execution” is a fruitless distinction.

Strategy 15

Strategy Strategy Competition Course 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

firms themselves have been forced to move jobs abroad to survive the low-cost competition. After 2002, the decline in U.S. The reason can be summarized in one word: China. Almost no sector has been immune from China's manufacturing expansion, and U.S. Then came the 2007 recession and worldwide financial and economic crisis.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Technology Industry Training 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

Technical Review 13

Technical Review Conference System Policies 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Details of the competition and of customer segments determine whether the positives outweigh the negatives, and years can pass before customer-centricity bears fruit. Moreover, customer-centric firms that operated in highly competitive markets had 69% lower performance, compared with product-centric peers. Low industry profitability.

Company 14

Company Software Review Competition Groups 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

We see rivalries in sports, business, school, and basically any arena where there is competition. there is something uniquely powerful about rivalry that differentiates it from others forms of competition and relationships. Second, we surveyed participants after the competition to understand their thinking. should U.S.

Underperforming Technical Team 13

Underperforming Technical Team Competition Technical Review Study 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

Report 14

Report Competition Strategy Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. That sounded like a great way to keep a process improvement program going. So I contacted the authors and several people who were at Technicolor to see where they are now.

How To 15

How To LEAN Technical Review Engagement 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5

Radical Innovation 14

Radical Innovation Comparison Innovation Software 14