Qmarkets

JANUARY 21, 2020

job losses skyrocketed during the peak recession years 2008-2010 Given the devastating impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis, it’s little wonder that companies worldwide are sensitive to omens of a new “great recession”. During the 2008 financial meltdown, the coffee shop giant launched its “My Starbucks Idea” platform.

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IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). The answer, to me, is how the meaning of innovation has changed. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe.

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IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). The answer, to me, is how the meaning of innovation has changed. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe.

Software Review 57

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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). The answer, to me, is how the meaning of innovation has changed. Innovations of the 21st Century era do not rely on one to discover secret codes of the universe.

Software Review 57

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Stackoverflow arrived on the scene in 2008 and solved the hostile environment brilliantly by applying gamification methods to encourage constructive participation on their platform. Turns out, the early adopters really liked our emails, so after a while we added an “Ask for Review” button. The review sidebar in UXfol.io

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Innov8rs

APRIL 2, 2025

They’re going to code it, they’re going to build it, and they’re going to sell it. Why Innovation Teams Typically Fail A staggering 90% of corporate innovation labs fail, according to one expert cited by Harvard Business Review. Sarah explains that teams struggle due to the way people think.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Imagine you're in charge of software selection for your enterprise, and you're turning your attention to a specific IT challenge. It's a business-critical need requiring software that is capable of some heavy lifting. Do you consider open source software for the job? To what extent is that already happening?

Software 17

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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KindlingApp

AUGUST 19, 2015

In 1995, the Harvard Business Review published an article on Discovery Driven Planning (DDP). The classic stage-gate approach for managing projects has been around for quite some time, and has even shaped the design of project management software, which in turn has encouraged more organizations to absorb stage-gate thinking than ever before.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Or, is it the incompetence that underlines the failure to anticipate change and stay ahead of the curve? The rules of the game have changed. Innovation management initiatives focus on disruptive or step changes that transform the business in some significant way.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Is it a lack of innovation or an inability to cope with change? Or, is it the incompetence that underlines the failure to anticipate change and stay ahead of the curve? The rules of the game have changed. Innovation management initiatives focus on disruptive or step changes that transform the business in some significant way.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

By definition it involves change, and if your organisation is in a position of success, then there is a chance that the change will be to its detriment rather than its benefit. In 2008 they launched an Open Innovation platform called Lego Ideas which allows anyone to submit proposals for new construction sets. Lego – Bankruptcy.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

By definition it involves change, and if your organisation is in a position of success, then there is a chance that the change will be to its detriment rather than its benefit. In 2008 they launched an Open Innovation platform called Lego Ideas which allows anyone to submit proposals for new construction sets. Lego – Bankruptcy.

Case Study 40

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Now, with the advent of innovation software, the process of ideation and collaboration mostly happens online. Due to the time limit, participants will be intensely focused on innovation. In many cases the goal is to create usable software or hardware. Offline/group discussions can often be dominated by the same talkative people.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

When presented with a potential change, we usually weigh the potential losses more heavily than the potential gains. Change is ubiquitous in most facets of our lives. On a basic level, you will likely change jobs more often than you might predict. So how can you take advantage of a rapidly changing world? Be proactive.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

Now, with the advent of innovation software, the process of ideation and collaboration mostly happens online. Due to the time limit, participants will be intensely focused on innovation. In many cases the goal is to create usable software or hardware. Offline/group discussions can often be dominated by the same talkative people.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Innovation Software Review Open Innovation 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Bitcoin drives adoption of its underlying blockchain, and its strong technical community and robust code review process make it the most secure and reliable of the various blockchains. The primary use and even the values of the people using new technologies and infrastructure tend to change drastically as these technologies mature.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Google went public 10 years ago today, and since then has dramatically changed the way the world accesses information. Both Gmail and AdSense, the company’s ad software for publishers, started out as 20% time projects. Google hasn’t just changed management by virtue of its own practices. How Google innovates.

Management 18

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

So when it comes to lobbying on climate change, the prevailing public view is that most firms lobby against climate regulations — such as those aiming to curb carbon emissions — because greater regulation threatens industry. It’s not hard to see why this might be.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Here’s why. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

An additive operation in the algebra of change, as my colleague Stuart Albert would put it, not a subtractive or transformative process. Michelle Bachelet , the former Chilean president, said that in changing times the best leaders are those who can be generals one day and consensus-builders the next. Josette Sheeran , U.N.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Many studies conclude that 70% of change efforts fail, and in my experience it's usually because people didn't want to change their way of working, not because a new process was flawed. But no matter how you change the work, unless you look at the people strategy, you won't realize the results — return on capital.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Two things we said in the original Groundswell (2008) were (1) pick a corporate objective before implementing a social technology strategy and (2) keep an eye on this Twitter thing, it's going to be big. Because it changes the character of their tweets, from "I have a problem" to "You solved my problem." Supporting. Why do this?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The “Hawthorne effect,” as it is now known, has been well-documented in social science : individuals, typically research subjects, actively change their behavior when they know they are being observed and monitored. hospitals that were inspected by the Joint Commission during 2008-2012. The effect goes beyond productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

took a newly aggressive stance with the publication on February 24th of a Parliamentary report advocating that FTSE 100 boards should aim for a minimum of 25 percent female representation by 2015 and threatening more draconian action if no significant change is manifested within the next two years. rely on the marketplace to propel change?

Leadership 19

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

The title comes from Alan Greenspan's now-famous admission to a Congressional committee in 2008 — "I have found a flaw in the model that defines how the world works" — and as best I can tell it posits that extreme income inequality was a precipitating factor behind the financial crisis. Who pushed for these changes?

Policies 20

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Nike subsequently became an innovator in supply chain accountability and promulgated a rigorous supplier code of conducts, accompanied by third-party factory inspections. A change at the top can also be transformative for social innovation within companies. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out. When William Clay Ford Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To get the "people" part of process improvement right, HR needs employees who can go toe-to-toe discussing operational changes with line managers. Scibelli restructured the HR department by hiring a director of organizational development from the outside (since they didn't have this function) to help people adapt to process changes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Facebook’s focus on spreading the right mindset became clear to us when, in late 2007 and early 2008, researcher and consultant Beth Benjamin and I had a series of conversations with Chris Cox, then Facebook’s 25 year-old head of Human Resources. Change management Getting buy-in Informal leadership' Now bend it.”

Leadership 15

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It's difficult to get senior executives who have been successful managing a particular way to realize that they need to change their approach. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. I didn't get it. I was against it."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

’” - Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine, June 23, 2008. The sentiment expressed by Chris Anderson in 2008 is a popular meme in the Big Data community. “Causality is dead,” say the priests of analytics and machine learning. “Petabytes allow us to say: ‘Correlation is enough.’”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In 2008, with just a few thousand dollars, Ben Munoz and I started Ben's Friends , a network of online support sites for people with rare diseases. Back in 2008, Ben and I knew three things. Software development" and "hardware" are bad words. Basecamp too was hosted software with a very small monthly subscription fee.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making.

Management 15

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The drivers of brand value have changed over time, and there are three forces at play that have brought the issue of trust to the center stage: 1. Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. Technology has also changed the picture for many brands in terms of building trust.

Design 21

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Repeated surveys can, over time, reveal changes in networks or in patterns of collaboration — making it possible to assess whether interventions such as reorganization or targeted efforts to improve collaboration (like offsite events, new software/communications tools, or incentive programs) actually have their desired impact.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. Most people are used to thinking about inequality as the pay gap between a CEO and an administrative assistant, or a software developer and a manufacturing worker. That gap definitely matters, but it actually hasn’t changed all that much.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

In our 2008 Harvard Business Review article "Shaping Strategy in a World of Constant Disruption," we discuss how certain firms are harnessing the power of business ecosystems to shape entire industries or markets. Margaret Meade once famously said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world.

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