Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

Yet even today, nearly a half century later, many executives and business strategists have failed to learn that simple lesson by attempting to inject “science” into strategy. In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Why Business Case Studies Are Flawed.

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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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Innovation 360 Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

This early leader in financial technology launched in 1998 as Field Link, a company that developed encryption software for palm pilots. An investigation of the external market revealed that e-commerce, which was just an emerging technology at the time, lacked an easy way for customers to pay for online purchases. Read all parts 1-6.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 23, 2017

New technologies, tools and systems make innovation networks more possible and more influential than ever. Networks form naturally – they emerge from the innate human desire for connection, communication, learning and sharing. Cultivating Communities of Practice ; Harvard Business Review Press; January 8, 2002. Buchanen, M.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Conventional wisdom has long held that, while technology may displace workers in the short-term, it does not reduce employment over the long-term. Some of the gap may reflect economists general optimism, but more than that, it signals the recognition that this wave of technological disruption could in fact be different.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? After 40 years of feminist-era dues paying, women's moment has come. Men on the job must feel besieged. Hear us roar.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

It was while my father was very sick last year that I learned something important about telling painful truths. I was so taken with it that I've adapted it for my exec ed classes to help CIOs learn how to speak difficult truths more easily and effectively. What were the areas of focus — technical, process, human capital, risk?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

For example, in 2004, Renault launched Logan, a small, no-frills family car. Building on Logan's success, Renault has now developed an entire line of low-cost vehicles (under the brand Dacia) all modeled after Logan's technology platform. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges. Ghosn recounts with humor how Dr. V.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Learn From Your Mistakes. The easiest way to understand Sony’s position with the PS4 is to review the mistakes it made last time around, beginning with its price. 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

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As Stever Robbins points in a brilliant 2004 article , email has shifted the costs of communication from the sender (who formerly had to go to the trouble of finding pen, paper and a stamp) to the recipient (who now has to spend time parsing all manner of ill-thought-out, hard-to-comprehend messages).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

But is there something about these specific companies that others can learn? Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Unicorns are: Small in size.

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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. Focus on the specific opportunity, and do the necessary research, due diligence, and soul-searching to figure out whether that particular job is right for you.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. The learning comes from considering several plausible alternative futures.

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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. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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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. Much of the strategic value of sustainability comes from the need to continually talk with and learn from key stakeholders. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

That''s a big change from only five years ago, when UX wasn''t on anyone''s radar outside the tech world. The nitty-gritty of product design has become a badge of pride in many organizations, like Facebook, which has embraced a "learn by making" executive culture. But what if you can''t jump ship and join a start-up to learn UX skills?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

No doubt the tech startup wins the popularity contest hands down. 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. I am no longer limited by geography.” Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.

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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. Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology.

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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. RIM is just the latest company to learn this lesson. IT management Information & technology Technology' In 1998, RIM launched the BlackBerry. A year later, the second version got a full keyboard. billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

But the bad news is that they have to learn a new improvement approach — one that can conflict with others that have worked in the past. Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Our belief is that as unsexy and low-tech as it may sound, the telephone is one of the best branding devices out there. A week later I was pleasantly surprised to learn that 70 were willing to give Vegas a shot.

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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. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

It measures and holds itself accountable for changes in the way that teachers use information and communications technology in the classroom. of participants applied their new plans for integrating technology into the classroom at least once after completing the program. What we've learned helps us improve the designs.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” In the years since, we’ve learned a lot from people at that crazy place. Facebook’s method for spreading a shared mindset in new engineers and technical employees has become more systematic and exacting as the company has expanded.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Rather, I am an academic economist who, through in-depth studies of high-tech companies and industries, has come to the conclusion that stock buybacks are eroding the foundations of economic prosperity in the United States. Icahn, I do not write to you as an Apple shareholder (I hold no Apple shares).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

In high-stakes, multiparty dealmaking, technical sophistication and understanding of the issues can vary widely, leading to serious conflicts. Singapore Free Trade agreement was successfully signed in 2004. To learn much more from Koh, watch the 2014 Great Negotiator sessions held at Harvard Law School here and here. .

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Today, Alibaba looks more like a conglomerate than a typical tech company, with a diverse set of businesses operating largely independently. This decision — to bet the company on a new and distinct business — was the first such move by Ma, but it would become the cornerstone of Alibaba’s strategy.

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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. 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

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. But testing hypotheses was very much in the company's DNA, as well as evaluating data to learn and adjust.

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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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IM Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

I was brought in to build a program in Rome that was themed around environmental tech. Kind of prioritize a little bit of what to learn. I’m learning when I read it. So do you want me to just start the review went through ? So Gmail was in beta , I think in 2004 , Dropbox started maybe 2008. Truly excited.

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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. The Boston Consulting Group estimates that the cost of the electronic parts will rise from 20% of the value in a typical automobile in 2004 to 40% this year.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. It is currently at less than o.5%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

This requires you to build distinctive capabilities – to learn to do a few things really well, that few, if any, other companies can do. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology.

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