David Marks

JUNE 22, 2017

They understand technology better. 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. They are better led. No, they are culturally open. No, they have more efficient processes.

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Wazoku

JANUARY 9, 2020

Advances in mechanisation, mass production and, more recently, technology have shaped where and how we work, as well as what we produce. A new era of work and technological change. New technology in the home made it easier for women to do paid work, relieving them of time-consuming housework. The digital revolution.

Training 52

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

2 Reasons: to accelerate the market and to make their technology the standard. Sector: Manufacturing Company: Philips Learn more: Source Pay-per-use Leasing Energy savings The fast pace of projection disruptions resulted in cinemas to either work with outdated technology or spend more than they earn. in the GE online store.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 5, 2022

2 Reasons: to accelerate the market and to make their technology the standard. Sector: Manufacturing Company: Philips Learn more: Source Pay-per-use Leasing Energy savings The fast pace of projection disruptions resulted in cinemas to either work with outdated technology or spend more than they earn. in the GE online store.

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Anaqua

MARCH 4, 2019

We are seeing the emergence of new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, and we had the USPTO release its 10 millionth patent. While technology continues to be the leading patent class, transportation has jumped to second. Ironically, this high-density patent covers a low-density parity checking technology. Download Now.

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Anaqua

MARCH 4, 2019

We are seeing the emergence of new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, and we had the USPTO release its 10 millionth patent. While technology continues to be the leading patent class, transportation has jumped to second. Ironically, this high-density patent covers a low-density parity checking technology. Download Now.

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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. Click & Connect with Matthew: LinkedIn . mgriffin_uk . +44

Technical Review 40

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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)?

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Adam Hartung

MAY 15, 2016

Quick Rundown: In January, 2002 Kmart is headed for bankruptcy. Media is under change, and that change is being created by technology. The Washington Post had to transition from a “newspaper” company to a “media and technology company.” He then should have invested that money in technology.

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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 15

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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

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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

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. When the U.S.

Software Review 18

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

This hugely expensive venture (which I actually mention in the article) attempted to import Google's technology to the world of radio advertising and make money the same way the company does on the Internet. This venture ended up not being competitive with YouTube, which Google ended up buying for over $1 billion.

Technical Review 16

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

manufacturers exposed to competition from Chinese imports became far less innovative. Competition with China was associated with decreased performance on several measures. The first takeaway from this paper is that more competition, from trade or otherwise, doesn’t necessarily lead to more innovation.

Innovation 12

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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.

Technical Review 15

Technical Review Technology Industry Training 15

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.

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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. We have also learned how to transfer knowledge from Games to Games.

Technical Review 16

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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. He did it through sheer ingenuity, without any formal training.

Technical Review 15

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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.

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Underperforming Technical Team Competition Technical Review Study 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

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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

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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. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center on American Competitiveness.

Technical Review 13

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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?

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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).

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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.”

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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

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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 12

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

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. Conceding defeat in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.4 Yet, for all its technological prowess Sony focused too much on products and not enough on creating platforms.

Software 15

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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.

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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 9

Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneurship Competition 9

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.

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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

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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

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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

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

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. While technology has greatly expanded the potential for global connectivity, policies matter too and can override it.

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