Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

But he's convinced it's paid off in product innovations, internal improvements, and satisfied customers. But when a recession and increasing competition hit in 2010, middle managers decided they wanted a more sustainable way to cut costs — they wanted cost reduction as a byproduct (not the focus) of process improvement.

Engagement 15

Engagement Software Review How To LEAN 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The innovation mindset isn’t just about product innovation. Some organizations have focused on product innovation for so long they don’t know how to innovate in any other areas. The product was a complete disaster. How could such a great product innovator strike out so fast?

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Innovation Product Innovation Resources Competition 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010. A social media site that allows its users to visually share their interests with each other (and with advertisers, who sponsor content and pay for user data).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

When Steve Jobs later recounted the story at a conference panel in 2010, the audience erupted in laughter. Or consider the financial services and insurance sector, where companies may, in the future, owe their success less to their ability to manipulate capital, and more to their abilities in customer service and product innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Professional athletics certainly fits the bill with the emergence of professional race car driving schools ($2,000 for the day) and professional athlete fantasy camps (Michael Jordan's basketball camp cost $15,000 in 2010). Professional chefs have also grown in cachet, and hence so have professional kitchen brands like Viking and Sub Zero.

Marketing 9

Marketing Training Product Innovation Examples 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. For instance, Google thinks about disruption and the timeline related to investments in disruptive innovation very differently than they think about incremental product innovation.

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Balancing external and internal R&D activities is key to achieving higher levels of innovation. R&D generates new knowledge via process or product innovation and it increases a company’s absorptive capacity. This affects the innovative performance in turn. (Read more in this HBR article by Huston and Sakkab.).

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Open Innovation Technical Review Innovation Collaboration 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

The current R&D tax credit supports exactly the kind of productive innovation our economy needs — not just a credit for basic science (lab coats and test tubes) but also for applied science (making a product better, manufacturing it greener, etc.). Start-ups, and the U.S. economy, could use the extra boost.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

The current R&D tax credit supports exactly the kind of productive innovation our economy needs — not just a credit for basic science (lab coats and test tubes) but also for applied science (making a product better, manufacturing it greener, etc.). Start-ups, and the U.S. economy, could use the extra boost.

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