Acuvate

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In less than a decade, innovation management got recognized as one of the most powerful strategies an organization can use to streamline internal processes and boost their business productivity. This knowledge facilitates them to produce a stronger innovation strategy than a high-level executive. What is innovation management?

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David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

In the book Charles Darwin described a natural selection process favoring individuals and species who, due to a lucky collection of redeeming features, were better suited to their environment than less fortunate peers. And most importantly by strategy. They differ in their culture, openness to change and new ideas.

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David Marks

MAY 19, 2017

In the book Charles Darwin described a natural selection process favoring individuals and species who, due to a lucky collection of redeeming features, were better suited to their environment than less fortunate peers. And most importantly by strategy. They differ in their culture, openness to change and new ideas.

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Adam Hartung

MAY 15, 2016

By November, 2004 the stock has risen to $90. 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. There was no way a cost cutting strategy would save KMart or Sears.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

So which timing strategy is better? Research I conducted together with John Joseph of Duke University shows that both approaches can be successful — what matters most is not simply timing but whether a company tailors its innovation strategy to whichever approach it adopts. Asking too many questions can slow you down.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

There are already strategy lessons to be drawn from the contest. 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. Cloud is one of these perennial ‘right around the corner’ technologies,” according to IDC’s Ward. Learn From Your Mistakes.

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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. Foresight and Forecast – How do we create future insights that guide our strategy and opportunity discovery? Cultivating Communities of Practice ; Harvard Business Review Press; January 8, 2002. 3 (2004), 294-302.

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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

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” Strategies for staying ahead. He was hardly alone — that was evidently how most economists thought about competition, too. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

This simple strategy proved wildly successful. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. Do Tech Buyouts Actually Work? To answer that, it''s important to first consider whether tech buyouts work at all. Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Few growth strategies match the economics of category creation. Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. Another telltale sign of category creation is that it comes with a distinctive business model and profit model. in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

One of the protocols that's used for teaching medical students how to break bad news goes by the (perhaps unfortunate) acronym SPIKES ( setting up the interview; assessing the patient's perception ; obtaining the patient's invitation ; giving knowledge ; addressing the patient's emotions ; and establishing a treatment strategy ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

All the email tips, strategies and systems I have seen — my own included — rest on two fundamental assumptions: If you're working smartly and efficiently, you can appropriately process (read, file and/or respond to) every email you receive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Yahoo’s forays into China started with a build strategy, which later became a buy strategy and ultimately morphed into a partnership strategy. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. Build, Buy, Partner. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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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. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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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 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Toyota faced two market challenges with the Prius: It would cost a lot more than other economy cars, due to the brand-new, sophisticated drivetrain , and economy cars are typically pitched to economy-oriented buyers who by definition are cost-conscious. in a new way. Their hybrids failed to catch people's imaginations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. That''s a big change from only five years ago, when UX wasn''t on anyone''s radar outside the tech world. UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. He was right there in the middle of it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. corporate groups have shed their "my way or the highway" lobbying strategies. corporate strategies towards global rule-making need to be revised sharply.

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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. So it has a place in partnership strategy. On the other hand, promiscuity is not a good strategy either.

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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. The case shows that a successful strategy requires a CIO to know when the IT organization can and ought to go fast to reduce risks and when the organization needs to go slow, even if that implies higher risks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

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.) By reviewing the history of its process initiatives, the company made its journey visible and discussable. Eradicate process lingo.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Previously a straggling and struggling conglomerate, it bravely focused 100% on mobile communications, was an early adopter and driver of 2G technology, and quickly became a recognised world leader in both supply chain management and brand-building.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Successful companies shape their high-level strategies by relying not on complicated frameworks but on simple rules of thumb. It illustrates how simple rules can help companies shape strategy in an uncertain environment. Strategies often falter in execution because of insufficient coordination across the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

No doubt the tech startup wins the popularity contest hands down. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. I am no longer limited by geography.” Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. However, compliance with the strategy doesn’t necessarily correlate directly to performance. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Ever since the idea of strategy came to the business world in the early 1960s, the goal of differentiation has been paramount. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past. Discover suffered a similar setback in 2004, when Walmart shifted its credit card partnership to MasterCard.

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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. Philips used this data along with profitability figures to develop the right investment strategy for each business line and each customer account. In short, it is their primary management system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” 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. Today is Facebook’s 10 th anniversary. The opening sentence was “When Mark E.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

To begin answering that question, a trio of British researchers reporting in the European Business Review , compared the performance of 48 British employee-owned firms to 178 comparable traditionally structured businesses in good times (2004-2007) and (very) bad (2008-2009). Tech Crunch).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

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. Today, Alibaba looks more like a conglomerate than a typical tech company, with a diverse set of businesses operating largely independently.

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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. company executives — except for smarter decisions on adoption of labor-saving technologies.

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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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