IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). 21st Century is about all of us, using the breakneck speed connectivity that technology provides, to do GOOD things together for a better future. Now, how about these? Leadership Insights.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 4, 2017

Stoller, Amanda Goodall, and Agnes Baker have published an intriguing Harvard Business Review article titled, "Why the Best Hospitals are Managed by Doctors." Given the conventional wisdom, I took a look at the research. Goodall wrote a paper with Lawrence Kahn and Andrew Oswald about NBA coaches.

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2024

Founded in 2004, Benify expanded quickly, building a professional services team of 120 people in 75 countries. Shiji uses Planview PSA not only for daily planning, tracking, and communication, but also for year-end reporting at their Annual Global Portfolio Review. This fast, consistent delivery model helped build trust with customers.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Yes, there are numbers, graphs and pie charts, much as your would see in a scientific paper, but there are usually important elements missing, such as a clearly formulated formulated hypothesis, a control group, and a peer review process.

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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. In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals.

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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. In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals.

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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. In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals.

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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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Qmarkets

APRIL 8, 2021

Of course, not every idea was serious but many of them were highly technical and well-thought out, however it does not appear that either of them contributed to the eventual outcome. 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

Of course, not every idea was serious but many of them were highly technical and well-thought out, however it does not appear that either of them contributed to the eventual outcome. 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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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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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. Being a product of a harsh yet practical Victorian upbringing Darwin aptly termed it: The survival of the fittest.

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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. Being a product of a harsh yet practical Victorian upbringing Darwin aptly termed it: The survival of the fittest.

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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. Forcing or mandating involvement may lead to frailties in due course of time. What is innovation management? Do Not Push Employees, Pull Them In.

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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. Commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing. hours a day.

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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. Cultivating Communities of Practice ; Harvard Business Review Press; January 8, 2002. 3 (2004), 294-302. It’s time for a new look at your company’s networks to supercharge them for this accelerating VUCA world. 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

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The consumer reviews posted on Yelp, the network of online city guides featuring user reviews, help independents and small, local chains overcome the unfamiliarity barrier. It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2013

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. By the mid 2000s, much of Dell''s competition had faded. Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Yelp's timing reflects both a tech-friendly market and the company's current position as the dominant consumer-review web site. Yelp has 22 million reviews, and the supposedly imminent onslaught of competing review sites has yet to materialize. Yelp hosts special events to reward these prolific reviewers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They haven't learned the lesson of Comair , whose legacy crew-scheduling software failed on Christmas Eve 2004, costing the company $20 million and stranding 200,000 passengers when 3,900 flights were delayed or canceled. 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

JANUARY 30, 2012

By contrast, of 5,000 businesses started in 2004, almost 56% were still in business in 2010, despite suffering through a brutal economic downturn. Another consideration: you can actually make real money with new companies. The actual money entailed in entrepreneurship can dwarf the outcomes from legitimate toil at established businesses.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2011

I synthesized Innosight's writing, notably Seeing What's Next (my 2004 book with Clayton Christensen) and a 2009 Harvard Business Review article about transformation in clean-tech , with my own field experience to highlight three areas to asses.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

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. Strategy Tech industry Technology' Learn From Your Mistakes.

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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. Hierarchies’ longevity, however, is due to more than these factors. An HBR Insight Center.

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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 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.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2014

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. 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. 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. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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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

JULY 19, 2017

Building on a relationship that dates back to 2004, Zurich Insurance Group is working with DXC to move from traditional data center outsourcing to a Platform as a Service model, taking advantage of next-generation cloud management technologies to lower operating costs and accelerate development.

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