Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

In the latest Harvard Business Review , I made the argument that failures can be useful in that they teach us where our assumptions are wrong, expose dead ends, and generally can give us something of an education. This venture ended up not being competitive with YouTube, which Google ended up buying for over $1 billion.

Technical Review 16

Technical Review Video Analysis Competition 16

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. Directness.

Software Review 18

Software Review Technical Review Collaboration Leadership 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. The way to increase seed- and early-stage financing for physical-product start-ups is to reduce individual investors' risk by improving the quality of due diligence and spreading risk across a larger number of investors.

Technical Review 11

Technical Review Industry Competition Technology 11

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. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

Technical Review 16

Technical Review Project Technology System 16

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. Technology will affect them, but the impact will take longer and may be less deep than other areas. The reason can be summarized in one word: China. but the number of unemployed. million per year.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Technology Industry Training 15

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

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 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

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. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors.

Strategy 15

Strategy Strategy Internet of things Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They reviewed the literature and reported that trade with China had cost the U.S. manufacturers exposed to competition from Chinese imports became far less innovative. Competition with China was associated with decreased performance on several measures. In fact, the relationship went in the opposite direction: U.S.

Innovation 12

Innovation Technical Review Competition Industry 12

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. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. This lack of economic growth across the world was not due to a lack of ideas.

Technical Review 13

Technical Review Conference System Policies 13

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. Some of the managers underscored the importance of the ideas to surviving the video technology change from VHS to DVD and losing work to other plants. Their answer?

How To 15

How To LEAN Technical Review Engagement 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why.

Radical Innovation 14

Radical Innovation Comparison Innovation Software 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. IBM had a near death experience in the early 1990s due a series of bad business decisions. ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. .”

How To 14

How To Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review 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. Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology.

Underperforming Technical Team 13

Underperforming Technical Team Competition Technical Review Study 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. Competition severe? They include the biotech, semiconductor, personal computer, and airline industries. Markets down? Market hype? He did not care.

Leadership 17

Leadership Analysis Disruption Creativity 17

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

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

Industry 9

Industry Competition Comparison Company 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

Software Review 14

Software Review Technical Review Marketing Leadership 14

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

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. The researchers combined several measures of an occupation’s use of digital technology into a digital score, ranging from zero (least digital) to 100 (most digital).

Technical Review 8

Technical Review Software Review Artificial Inteligence Study 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. Are they out-competing their rivals, or are they using their size and influence to avoid competition altogether? But why is IT leading to winner-take-all competition?

Technical Review 8

Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneurship Competition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That year, according to our proprietary research, non-tech companies scooped up 707 computer and electronics firms, often at highly inflated prices.

Company 8

Company Technology Competition Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

million European firms (for over 6 million firm-years of data, from 2002 to 2012). Also think about the competitive context. The paper that showed a positive correlation between an eponymous firm name and financial results looked at a data set of 1.8 The other paper uses a sample of roughly 8,000 firm-years of data from U.S.

Company 14

Company Data Marketing Management 14

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.

Software 14

Software Marketing Strategy Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Founded in 1998, Lululemon produces sports apparel for women that is fashionable, environmentally friendly, and as technically advanced as sports apparel for men. Chobani provides an example of how a product that delivers a noticeably different experience can overtake the competition. For example, look at Lululemon.

Marketing 11

Marketing Analysis Competition Strategy 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. The key difference is the degree to which reps have taken advantage of new technology (largely built into their CRM system) to share and learn from one another. The results?

Collaboration 14

Collaboration System Culture Brainstorming 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

tech companies are concerned. Proponents of this view cite companies such as LinkedIn (founded in 2002 and recently acquired by Microsoft), which ostensibly operates in 200 countries, Airbnb (2008) in 190, and Uber (2009) in 68. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization.

Comparison 11

Comparison Strategy Strategy Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

Resources 11

Resources Disruption Marketing Competition 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.

System 14

System Marketing Conference Leadership 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work.

Design 15

Design Disruption Marketing Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

imports of technologically-advanced products from China grew by 16.5% imported 560% more technologically-advanced products from China than it exported to that country. Government subsidies to produce technologically advanced products and undercut foreign manufacturers have buttressed China''s trade prowess. In 2011, the U.S.

Change 8

Change Industry Competition Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Apple succeeded in forging the initial ground-breaking deals with the five major record labels in 2002 which underpinned its disruptive business model, thanks to its large user base and its technological credibility. Scale should help build influence in highly malleable environments.

Company 14

Company Strategy Strategy Leadership 14

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. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds.

Open Innovation 9

Open Innovation Learning Innovation Engagement 9

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. However, only 13% believed that China would have overtaken the US on the technology frontier by then. Force SOEs to face the winds of competition more fiercely than in the past, and.

Innovation 9

Innovation Culture System Competition 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 ” But best practices can turn bad , as a result of changing market conditions, customer demands, or progressing technology. Then, innovating by ceasing them can become a source of growth and competitive advantage — just as Capitec has done.

Industry 8

Industry Strategy Strategy Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In an industry characterized by intense global competition and major technological challenges, GM cannot afford to be held hostage by hedge funds in the name of “maximizing shareholder value.” billion worth of buybacks from 1986 through 2002. Economy Financial markets Labor National competitiveness Automotive'

Company 13

Company Competition Marketing Resources 13