The BMI Lab Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

Examining the way in which they work is well worth the time required, as we can learn many lessons about innovation and business development. At the same time, in 2003-2004, Alibaba invested USD 52 million to enter the C2C market in China through its service, Taobao.com. How do Chinese innovators work?

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Planview

APRIL 11, 2019

When the program started back in 2004, the goal was to bring employees from all over the company together to present game-changing ideas, solve business challenges, and introduce exciting new offerings to market. How do they accomplish this? Your next eureka moment is waiting.

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Adam Hartung

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The brand is now so tarnished that Sears Holdings is writing down the value of the Sears name by another $200million – reducing intangible value from the $4B at origination in 2004 to under $2B. Whatever chance Sears and Kmart had to grow the chain against intense competition it was lost by the Chairman’s need to micro-manage.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

If there’s anything we’ve learned from the last 10 years of technological advancements, it’s that humanity’s potential for enhancement, modification, deviation, and then reinvention, is categorically unfathomable. But it’s this mindset which must change in order for companies to maintain a competitive edge and fight disruption.

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Integrative Innovation

MARCH 9, 2018

In fact, the organizational structure can more usefully be thought of as one of the essential building blocks of the business model – that is, as an aspect of the new business that needs to be fully explored and experimented with before you can learn what works best. […]. short term) success?

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hackerearth

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Simply put, design thinking is an action-oriented and solution-focused methodology used to solve complex problems, such as those faced by organizations in a highly competitive and rapidly changing environment. What is Design Thinking? The focus is not on the problem, but on the solution that will give rise to a preferred future.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

If there’s anything we’ve learned from the last 10 years of technological advancements, it’s that humanity’s potential for enhancement, modification, deviation, and then reinvention, is categorically unfathomable. But it’s this mindset which must change in order for companies to maintain a competitive edge and fight disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

Every year since 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a report on the state of competition in the wireless market. Tension hangs in the air in particular this year because of the new ground broken by last year's 14th Competition Report. If firms are not exercising market power, competition reigns.

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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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Michael Roberto

JULY 26, 2017

First, companies find themselves extending into areas in which they do not have distinctive capabilities that can lead to competitive advantage. Top performing firms search for ways to deepen their competitive position, to reinvigorate their core business. Great firms don't simply accept the apparent decline of their core business.

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Adam Hartung

OCTOBER 16, 2015

By July, 2015 we learned that the market cap of Amazon now exceeded that of Wal-Mart. In 2004 Sears bought K-Mart, and the stock was $40. The telltale indication of a rotting traditional retail brick-and-mortar approach was showing itself clearly.

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Marketing Software Company Report 36

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

But more than two-thirds of 1990 industry leaders no longer existed by 2004. The good news is that these three capabilities can be learned. By learning about these attributes, you can become aware of them and choose to build them in yourself. People can change. And this can help you bring out the best in those you lead.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

They learn fast. Its leaders studied the business intently and met with service providers, cargo companies, duty-free operators, vendors, and architects worldwide to learn what they could. Kiran Kumar Grandhi, son of the founder who oversees the airports business, says he learned to learn from his father, GMR founder G.

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Marketing Learning Trends Disruption 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Here's a case in point: In 2004, my HBS colleague Gary Pisano and I conducted a project at a leading manufacturer of highly sophisticated production equipment for the electronics industry, which I'll call "Exotech." Like many companies, Exotech struggled with serious time delays in its product-development projects. Educate Team Members.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. While shareholders might benefit, the company was lost as a competitive force in its field. Fields spent nearly a decade overseas learning how to compete with leaders in the industry in their markets.

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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. Key Lessons Learned.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. He was hardly alone — that was evidently how most economists thought about competition, too. ” But that wasn’t exactly so.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

A company that can show it is different from other companies, in a way that is relevant to customers, gains a major competitive advantage. That’s what customers see, after all, relative to what the competition can provide. Discover suffered a similar setback in 2004, when Walmart shifted its credit card partnership to MasterCard.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2013

As the head of Year Up, a social enterprise that has grown rapidly since 2001 (we have a 49% average annual growth rate in students served), I'd like to share what I've learned about going head to head with for-profit enterprises to secure the best talent. Pay as competitively as you can. Leverage your mission.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Few product releases are as hotly anticipated, fiercely competitive, or widely debated as those that keep the console wars waging. Learn From Your Mistakes. But as Sony soon learned, what mattered most to gamers was, not surprisingly, games. In other words, Sony learned from its mistakes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

You must learn to live with — not avoid — polygamy. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. From these pioneers in network strategy we learn at least three things. This is tricky.

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Management How To Strategy Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

They learn fast. Its leaders studied the business intently and met with service providers, cargo companies, duty-free operators, vendors, and architects worldwide to learn what they could. Kiran Kumar Grandhi, son of the founder who oversees the airports business, says he learned to learn from his father, GMR founder G.

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Marketing Learning Trends Disruption 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

It could sell Delicious to another company; the only imaginable reason to shut down instead of selling is to avoid offering a competitive advantage to another company, in a truly egregious example of placing competition ahead of customers. I stored my first bookmark on October 14, 2004, on the day I wrote my very first blog post.

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Software Training System Competition 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Driving competitive advantage through stakeholder engagement. Much of the strategic value of sustainability comes from the need to continually talk with and learn from key stakeholders. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Technical Review Study Disruption Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

It will ease the way for companies launching and updating digital products, but it presents steep new learning curves that companies will have to master if they are to be successful. Companies need to be constantly on the alert for the next software-based product that might pose a competitive threat.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

What happens when an individual’s goals no longer make sense, because the competitive landscape has changed, but their performance rating (and by extension, their compensation and advancement opportunities) are all resting on the completion of those goals? A great example is Máirín Duffy, one of our user interface designers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. We learned through Charlie that there was a major undertaking underway at IBM to determine which security-related products they would invest in for the following year. Advancement.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

But for women in the workplace—especially those in low-income developing countries—it can be harder to find other successful women to learn from and collaborate with, since social norms often restrict their mobility and opportunities to interact with one another.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. What helped Trolltech ultimately save the relationship was learning how to set expectations appropriately in light of the divergent cultures.

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Disruption Culture Software Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. RIM is just the latest company to learn this lesson. Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry. billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

But testing hypotheses was very much in the company's DNA, as well as evaluating data to learn and adjust. The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. Think about that.

Software Review 14

Software Review Technical Review Culture LEAN 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. ” (If the company won’t allow you to do this, “you’ve probably already learned enough,” he says.) What are its future sources of funding?

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Technical Review Software Review How To Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In betting on 22-year Microsoft veteran Nadella, the board has wagered the house: Right pick, Microsoft stays competitive with the likes of Apple, Google, and Oracle; Wrong pick, Microsoft is stuck in 2nd gear, or worse. An apples-to-apples comparison of the finalists can be vital as well.

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Software Engineering Comparison Leadership Report 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

It may not surprise you to learn that what got me to look up Chapter 17 of The Prince was a recent experience trying to give my cable box and modem back to Comcast, America''s biggest cable TV provider. The first CableCARDs came out in 2004; since then the FCC has issued repeated rules changes aimed at getting the things to catch on.

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Policies Industry Strategy Strategy 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But as Apple’s profits multiplied from 2004 through 2011, it was clear that, as you now call it, “ return of capital ” to shareholders was not a pressing priority for Mr. Jobs. You clearly have a different point of view on distributions to shareholders. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

The bad news is that engaging audiences has never been more challenging – as a presenter, you’re in direct competition with their email, social media accounts, phones, and, um, lives. Now it’s your turn … Learn more about the art of killer presentations at GoToMeeting. About the Author.

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