The Inovo Group

MAY 23, 2017

New technologies, tools and systems make innovation networks more possible and more influential than ever. Functions are partitioned into R&D, Marketing, Operations and other disciplines. Cultivating Communities of Practice ; Harvard Business Review Press; January 8, 2002. Norton & Company; May 2002.

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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.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. Why be the assembler when you can be the Venture Capitalist behind the next big technology wave?

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Adam Hartung

MAY 15, 2016

Quick Rundown: In January, 2002 Kmart is headed for bankruptcy. As malls came along, Sears was again a pioneer “anchoring” many malls and obtaining lower cost space due to the company’s ability to draw in customers for other retailers. Leaving Sears’ market “hollowed out.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Human ingenuity — increasingly augmented by technical amplifiers — remains the most remarkable renewable resource. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. What do they all have in common? Individual empowerment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing. hours a day.

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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.

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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. Google Answers (April 2002 to November 2006). In highly uncertain environments, failures are both useful and unavoidable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Directness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. We came up with ' Global Enablement Teams ': we took the top people in mature markets and assigned them to help and mentor people in the growth markets. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

But the author argues that the findings are still likely generalizable – and help to explain the changing demand in the labor market for different skills. But others have studied how technological innovations affect workforce skill requirements. Cathy Weinberger , the author, says answering that requires further research.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). The teams didn't review and discuss; their members made things happen. The CEC was dissolved. Think Tahrir Square as a corporate process.).

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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. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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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. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since.

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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. 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.

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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. When Peter Lewis of Progressive, the car insurance company, had the idea of expanding into the safe-driver market, he did not move in one big swoop.

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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

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

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They reviewed the literature and reported that trade with China had cost the U.S. “Aggregate firm sales revenues, employment, available capital, market valuation, and investments in new technology have diminished as competitive conditions have tightened, thereby contributing to diminished profitability,” the authors wrote.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Back in the early 1990s, when Intel was seeking to "pace" the market for PCs, it introduced a set of standards for desktop PCs that commoditized all of the hardware components beyond the microprocessor. Taiwanese suppliers fought over the privilege of bringing new technology to Apple, but nobody wanted to bring exciting things to HP.

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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. But guess what?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. It's a safe bet that resumes are already in play.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market. No company should confuse the strategy of buying into a big market with buying innovation that will bring tomorrow's growth. The technology world has some harrowing examples that no innovation-based industry should ever forget.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

Value is defined in the other paper according to the Tobin’s q ratio, which indicates the market value of a company’s assets. The latter is a market-based measurement, which may be better for evaluating firm performance in the long run, but can be influenced by accounting methods. family firms (from 1993 to 2009).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google learned this lesson when Amazon and Samsung fragmented (“forked” in tech lingo) the open Android platform to create their own open-source versions. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions.

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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 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. But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient. For example, look at Lululemon.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. tech companies are concerned. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As The Economist nicely summarized in 2002: But the fact remains that on everything that mattered most to Marx himself, he was wrong. And this is because of, not despite, the things Marx most deplored: private property, liberal political rights and the market. I can think of two good reasons why not. Who in the end owns the companies?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

The most obvious explanation for this is that broadband providers are serving a new and burgeoning market. And then, when the FCC decided in 2002 that cable broadband wouldn’t be regulated like that, there was no discernible spending boom — at least not for quite a few years. Internet Tech industry Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas of the Washington Post write , "In particular, [labor force entry has] suffered among women — and it''s really suffered among young women — who are a lot less likely to enter the labor force than they were in 2002 and 2003.". The question is: why?

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