Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Its HR function has been instrumental in the $100 billion company's metamorphosis from a floundering computer manufacturer in the 1990s to a prosperous software and consulting services company today. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. But not at IBM.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft. This constrained innovation space is a direct result of Intel's commoditization strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The key for every firm — regardless of size — is to figure out how to consistently create value in a demanding, ever-changing market. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” Moreover, customer-centric firms that operated in highly competitive markets had 69% lower performance, compared with product-centric peers. In his 2006 survey of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. The result was that Apple struggled to create a robust platform connecting Apple customers and software producers. For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Over the past several years, PARC — spun off as an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Xerox in 2002 — has reinvented itself as a font of innovation for Xerox and a variety of other organizations worldwide. It has delivered a stunning array of software and hardware innovations to global corporations, startups, and the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

IBM's shift to software and services occurred in the 1990s. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. Leo Apotheker, your immediate predecessor, reverted to his SAP comfort zone and chased a software acquisition.

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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. One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.” Does biology inform business?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. First came a new point-of-sale system that included personal book software so that salespeople could track individual customer requests and needs online. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. It issued numerous upgrades that increased the speed and throughput of its routers and improved the accompanying software platform. 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

JANUARY 23, 2015

In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. 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. They are about identifying customers and competitors, their values and behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world. But, oddly, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Should you give them performance reviews so they know where they stand? There’s no need to do a formal review with freelancers (“I’m not even a big fan of giving employees performance reviews,” admits Pink) but that doesn’t mean you should skimp on the feedback. What the Experts Say. Give feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software. In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Most industries in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 It is fine to explore new market areas like this, but spending months or years without figuring out the details is dangerous and wasteful. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Where once the auto-sector workforce was anchored by workers responsible for mechanical and machine-maintenance roles, the need for electrical skills is now growing exponentially due to the increasing electrical and electronic content of the car.

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