Innovation Walk

JUNE 14, 2019

Technology is rewriting the rules of humanity. On the other hand, important technological advances led by connectivity and digitisation are shaping customer’s behaviour and expectations. Traditional companies have also started to deal with a new competition since the entry of fast-emerging businesses referred to as “startups“.

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Forrester also claims that 53% of global services decision-makers are investing in emerging innovation and idea management technologies to drive innovation. At times the organization may come to a compromise by failing to deliver top-notch innovative offerings that contribute to staying ahead of the competition.

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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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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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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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David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

The Natural monopoly axis measures the degree of which a company is shielded from competition. New technologies, competitors, regulations and social trends have a nasty habit of diminishing competitive advantages so laboriously accumulated. While option 2 is clearly riskier, it offers a potential of remaining competitive.

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David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

The Natural monopoly axis measures the degree of which a company is shielded from competition. New technologies, competitors, regulations and social trends have a nasty habit of diminishing competitive advantages so laboriously accumulated. While option 2 is clearly riskier, it offers a potential of remaining competitive.

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Adam Hartung

MAY 15, 2016

By November, 2004 the stock has risen to $90. 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. But it did.

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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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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

The Pope was quite enraged by this suggestion and announced a competition to find someone who could develop and execute a plan to move Cleopatra’s Needle. As Scotti notes, this project “is still considered one of the boldest achievements in [the history of] engineering technology.” Peter’s Square with Obelisk (Pixabay.com).

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

But Yelp seems poised to change that competitive landscape. It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct. Yelp has expanded rapidly since it was founded in 2004 in San Francisco.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

What worked a year or two ago is no longer effective, because the competitive and regulatory environment has transformed so quickly. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. It’s also essential to know your competition, as it is in any deal-making situation.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. IT management Information & technology Technology' In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry.

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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. But if consoles are finally broadening their competition beyond gaming, the threats are as notable as the opportunity. Your Biggest Competitor Isn’t Necessarily Your Biggest Competitor.

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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

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. We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

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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. That is good news for the companies involved. Often outsiders would “clean up the company” and then sell it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. An example of the impact of changes in competitive dynamics can be seen from our experience with globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. Moreover, its business lines which enjoyed industry-leading scores outgrew those where Philips lagged the competition by 5 percentage points. In short, it is their primary management system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. That was the case with Toys 'R Us and Amazon.com a few years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue.

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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. It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? After the economy-focused first generation car proved the viability of the technology, Toyota had a core insight for the second generation car that cracked this conundrum. in a new way.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. billion — the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s IPO in 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Driving competitive advantage through stakeholder engagement. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

While searching for other people using Delicious to organize their professional networks, I discovered Marnie Webb, who had introduced the use of the nptech tag into the community of nonprofit technology users; Marnie became a client and a friend. I stored my first bookmark on October 14, 2004, on the day I wrote my very first blog post.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

By the mid 2000s, much of Dell''s competition had faded. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. As Lerner summed it up for me in an interview, "There seemed to be a pretty positive track record in terms of technology companies after buyouts.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. Although technologically advanced, this did not prove profitable and Motorola had launched little else to compensate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

They vary by area of expertise, presentation technologies, design thinking, and, frankly, quality, yet there is one thing that the vast majority share – an obsession with what I would term “formal presentations.” Interactive Presenting – Technology Friend or Foe? Technology is your friend. So in Summary.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. 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

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. In 2004, the residual assets were sold off for a mere $7 million, a tiny fraction of the $500 million auto manufacturers had invested.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). “People who apply technology to ad targeting don’t necessarily think they are in a particular industry. Where did the concept originate? How relevant is it today?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Luckily, this single contract was pivotal in helping HarQen reposition themselves from a technology-driven voice response company, to a market-driven recruiting systems one.

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