The BMI Lab Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Massive investments, a huge market and the hiring of worldwide talent has boosted the Chinese innovative ecosystem. For instance, in Q3 2017, Tencent, the Chinese Internet company that developed WeChat and QQ, overran Facebook in terms of market value. China is no longer just the home of copycats. But how was this possible?

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Technology Created

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Would not the study of Mobility, Big Data, Cloud, Social Media and Clean Energy be a much wiser investment of our time? Why would it be important to dig into events such as the introduction of the Model A by Henry Ford in 1927 or the failure of IBM to react to Microsoft’s entry into the PC market in the early 1980’s?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. In short, you wouldn’t have needed big data at all to do better than Google Flu Trends.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. So they developed an "emerging market" technology solution centered on mobile phone text messaging and low-cost cloud server networks.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Data scientists are very much in demand as companies grapple with the challenge of making valuable discoveries from Big Data. They’re often exotic, coming from data-oriented scientific backgrounds rather than MBA programs. Of course it’s a good thing to see the growing availability of data science programs in academia.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Our traditional market research is telling us something else. It's just that you've been having this argument with yourself for two months: Should we or shouldn't we trust Google's free data on the intensity of web searches? Google trends," by Simeon Vosen and Torsten Schmidt, in the Journal of Forecasting (September 2011).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. First, Vanguard is a big company with the financial muscle to underwrite just about any innovation it chooses. The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

They learn about internal and external uses for social networking technology, and how it can be applied to business operations — from HR to marketing to product development — for more efficient collaboration and faster innovation. The emergence of new collaborative education models are already starting to reinvent education.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In 2011, the company partnered with mobile carrier Docomo to offer customers a series of innovative insurance products under the banner One-Time Insurance. Latino audience, a market that collectively has over a trillion dollars in purchasing power. These products were available through a specialized mobile app.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

For some time now we’ve been living into a smarter world filled with Big Data and analytics, and a more connected one that’s been described as “ the internet of things.” ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

When Caesars Entertainment, a gaming company, reorganized operations in 2011, the senior team not only developed a database on the performance and the potential of the company’s top 2,000 managers but also analyzed the ability of the top 150 to take on new and different jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

drop in stock price) from the spillover effects of Nvidia’s breach, controlling for overall market effects. increase in stock prices) on the event day due to competitive effects, again controlling for overall market effects. In 2011 Citigroup experienced a data breach of 146,000 customer records and suffered a $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

Commenter Sean Kennedy pointed out that “… many of our decisions have to be made under much less than ideal “big data” conditions. Data is often lacking, low-quality, or conflicting.” Why is this? Let’s turn to the theory.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Big Data meets travel.in In December 2011, Expedia felt it wasn't getting full economic credit for TripAdvisor buried within its financials and so spun TripAdvisor out as an independent company, where it now trades on the NASDAQ with a $4.8 billion market capitalization as of this writing. TripAdvisor's Future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. However, while their companies had plenty of resources, the big digital bets did not pay off quickly enough, or richly enough, to counter the drain they represented on the rest of the business. Yagi Studios/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

At a time when marketers are ravenous for customer intelligence, Johnson seemed to be indifferent. When I interviewed him in 2011, just after he''d taken the reins at Penney, I asked whether it wasn''t a risky proposition to completely reinvent the department store. Hubris, right? That''s just negligent.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 5, 2017

In developed markets, governments are restricting the freedom to price new drugs. Digital capabilities and big data is transforming everything from discovery to commercialization. Thousands of analysts manually curate data and sell it at a high premium to companies and clinicians to make decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Launched in 2010, by mid-2011 the site was marketing 2,200 brands (including clothing, toys, furniture, plush animals, knapsacks, and even lunch trays for kids, along with lifestyle products for new moms); the site showcases brands with curated collections of merchandise and richly developed editorial content.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. For example, insurance companies face technological uncertainty that comes from how big data and analytics investments will drive revenue; whereas demand is based on highly predictable demographics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. As most of us know by now, we have an increasingly internet-powered economy. A different tool can predict any job’s automation risk, based on an Oxford study.

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