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. And it worked marvelously.

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Marketing Disruption Competition Leadership 36

Planview

MARCH 3, 2017

What can we learn from the experiences they provide their customers? They use conversations with their customers as a method to learn and improve. The expectations of millennials (born between 1982 and 2002) differ from previous generations. So what makes these leading brands stand out from the rest?

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Company Study Trends Marketing 40

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. This opened up new possibilities for online social learning.

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Training Technical Review Innovation Technology 52

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

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Case Study Learning Leadership Competition 20

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.

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Company Industry Leadership Competition 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

And what did they mean for the early days of the Ford Motor Company, and by extension, for entrepreneurs looking to learn about how to innovate? I attribute Ford's failure to respond in a timely and effective manner to competitive innovation in the marketplace to an attitude summed up in a quote he never uttered.

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Innovation Disruption Competition Design 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. We always wanted to get a partner sooner rather than later, in order to share risk and learn more quickly. Net Present Value ).

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Open Innovation Learning Innovation Engagement 11

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. What did Spence learn from Collins? ” What was his message?

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Conference Competition Learning Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The amount of time it took to deliver the results to the global audience was, in fact, 30 times faster than the race itself—and at the same time, 15 other Olympic competitions were simultaneously having their results relayed. We have also learned how to transfer knowledge from Games to Games.

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Technical Review Project Technology System 18

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. I recently caught up with Sir Dave to learn more about his success in cycling and what lessons his experience holds for managers in other arenas.

Competition 15

Competition Brainstorming Training Strategy 15

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 15

Company Software Review Competition Groups 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

To foster it, they often give sales its own learning and development team, recruiting specialists, compensation plan, and management and IT systems — but now they’re finding that those differences can hinder success as much as they support it. The results?

Collaboration 15

Collaboration System Culture Brainstorming 15

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. The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen. Their answer? The program is pretty much dead. What happened?

How To 15

How To LEAN Technical Review Engagement 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Software Review 15

Software Review Technical Review Marketing Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. If companies are limited by their DNA, is it possible to change in a way that keeps them competitive?

How To 15

How To Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

in 2002, and should touch 2.0% They enjoy privileged access to inputs and don’t have to face much competition, so innovation is not a top priority. China’s educational system emphasizes rote learning rather than creative problem solving. Force SOEs to face the winds of competition more fiercely than in the past, and.

Innovation 11

Innovation Culture System Competition 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

They found that 95% of those occupations became more digital between 2002 and 2016, meaning that computers became a more important part of the job. Once you select an occupation, you’ll see below the main chart how that score changed since 2002, as well as the change in average pay.

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Technical Review Software Review Artificial Inteligence Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Google learned this lesson when Amazon and Samsung fragmented (“forked” in tech lingo) the open Android platform to create their own open-source versions. Think of it this way: To host a successful event you must plan carefully, invite the right people, have the right food, and manage competition with the party next door.

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Software Marketing Software Developers Software Development 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Big firms need to reduce their excessive reliance on planning, prediction, and precision and instead learn the art of disciplined experimentation through cycles of “vary, select, and amplify.” Cultivate adaptive capability. Unpredictable environments require adaptation. Cultivate shaping capability.

Company 15

Company Strategy Strategy Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. There are also instances where startups have uncovered and locked up a new distribution channel that would take too long to build from scratch, risking the growth of competition or the possibility of obsolescence.

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Company Technology Competition Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The basic story is that early antitrust and regulatory ideas that didn’t have much basis in economic theory were brushed aside in the 1970s and 1980s by the University of Chicago-based “law and economics” movement, which basically taught that competition conquers all, even in pretty concentrated industries.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategy Industry Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

The restaurant industry is notorious for being competitive, risky, and low-margin. Three years later, El Bulli rose to three Michelin Stars, and when the first edition of the 50 Best guide was released in 2002, they earned the top spot, positioning Spain as one of the main gastronomic destinations in the world. pchyburrs/Getty Images.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Culture 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec’s founders had learned something, though, from their early forays into the industry, including from the cash loan shops: Companies in the industry seemed to share some puzzling practices. It has now become the largest bank in the country.

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Industry Strategy Strategy Marketing 8

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. This model, where proprietary software pairs with other strengths to form competitive advantage, is only becoming more common.

Software Review 8

Software Review Software Technical Review Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. People will compare your product against the best things they’ve experienced, not just competitive products in its category. Most product teams or strategy groups go through a process of defining market requirements and scoping out the competitive landscape.

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Underperforming Technical Team Product Development Development Team Review Competition 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

I, however, am going to give you something different: 11 things I learned about net neutrality while spending way too much time studying the topic over the past few days. It didn’t start out this way: The Telecommunications Act of 1996, with its push for competition and lighter regulation, was a bipartisan effort.

Competition 14

Competition Course Industry Company 14