The BMI Lab Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

At the same time, in 2003-2004, Alibaba invested USD 52 million to enter the C2C market in China through its service, Taobao.com. A year later, in 2004, it occupied over 50% of the market, displacing eBay to the second position. In 2010 Taobao had close to 80% of the C2C market in China, entirely displacing eBay.

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Conversely, a city with broad, straight avenues (which are efficient in terms of space management and easy to navigate) where one can see all the way to the horizon provides less security. This would show that the innovator has exercised due diligence in the work effort and possibly pre-empt any negative questions from the audience.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 8, 2021

In 2017 it was blocked for a few hours by the OOCL Japan, in 2006 it was blocked by the Okal King Dor for 8 hours, and before that in 2004 the Tropic Brilliance became lodged for 3 whole days. In the case of the BP oil crisis, they were forced to employ over 100 experts to review the 123,000 submissions that they received.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 8, 2021

In 2017 it was blocked for a few hours by the OOCL Japan, in 2006 it was blocked by the Okal King Dor for 8 hours, and before that in 2004 the Tropic Brilliance became lodged for 3 whole days. In the case of the BP oil crisis, they were forced to employ over 100 experts to review the 123,000 submissions that they received.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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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. At the time, eBay customers will still paying by check or money order due to resistance from traditional credit card carriers. I’m talking about Royal Dutch Shell.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

And as anyone who has ever given or received a traditional performance review knows, this process can be highly subjective — even in the most metrics-obsessed organizations. While it might be easy to measure someone’s output on an assembly line, how do we decide how well a manager manages or a leader leads?

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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." So the company assumed the software team would, too. But the results were much different on the software side.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Global airlines manage their multi-partner alliances carefully to avoid duplicating routes. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software. They come second to innovations in computer code. But I’ve found that they’re less cognizant of how software has transformed other fields that we traditionally think of as hardware-based. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company. We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. A lot of people thought we were crazy.

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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. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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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

MAY 4, 2018

The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Rather than improving software in one large batch, updates are made continuously, piece-by-piece, enabling software code to be delivered to customers as soon as it is completed and tested. Fix errors faster.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Cox explained that the newbies start by working on actual Facebook software code knowing that their changes will be pushed live right away: “We tell them, put your hand on it. Change management Getting buy-in Informal leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management. Additionally, CIOs should review all prior presentations to the board and the CEO involving the systems in question.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Murdock purchased the old mill in 2004 and turned it into what journalist Amanda Wilson describes as "a public–private campus that would host research efforts broadly in his areas of interest." Yes, it employs people — but primarily people with advanced degrees from out of town. IT suits her well.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." Which aspiring manager would want to deal with the disaster that was Apple at the time? How do I know?

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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. Content is free and supplied by consumers who write reviews voluntarily. As a result, gross margins are very high at 98% (not a typo!)

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Failure to engage developers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

The self-congratulatory consensus seems to be that things are different now than they were in 2004, the last time O’Reilly faced a major uproar over his conduct with a coworker. That alleged episode will forever be etched in my mind, due to O’Reilly’s unorthodox use of the word “falafel.” Using the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Working with an Israeli software development company, AppFront, we invested six months and more capital than we ever thought possible on it. Some teams decided to hoist their general manager in the air for the picture; others formed human pyramids. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. 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. Research & development Financial management' It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example. Drawing on data from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Then, between 2004 and 2014, Nordstrom made an extraordinary series of investments, each aimed squarely at that same purpose of providing a fabulous customer experience. First came a new point-of-sale system that included personal book software so that salespeople could track individual customer requests and needs online.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

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. Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. And billionaire Mark Cuban worked until 2 am launching his first business and didn’t take a vacation for seven years. “But weren’t sure how.” “We kept trying.

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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. Change management Leadership' With renewed solidarity and determination, the beard-wearing Sox went on to win the division, the playoffs, and the big prize.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% a decade later — was due to weak demand and uncertainty. Investment, in turn, is critical for productivity growth, as it equips workers with more – and with more recent and innovative – equipment, software, and structures. in 2014 to 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”. Barra further promised to repair all broken vehicles (and to double the number of product reviews). Fact 5: Product assurances.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Find out what keeps your manager up at night and propose solutions to those problems. It''s appropriate to raise your ambitions with your manager if you have a trusting, solid relationship, but frame them in a way that focuses on what''s best for the company. "Show her that you''re willing to pick up the baton on important projects."

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