New Markets Advisors

MAY 17, 2018

The Need for University Innovation A central strand of Christensen’s 2011 book, The Innovative University, is that each university has a “DNA”, core institutional traits that define its identity. Meanwhile, players like Coursera or coding bootcamps are disrupting traditional education. The minor programs offered?—?Central

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

Put simply, Operational Excellence can be defined as a management principle which encourages the discovery and implementation of incremental changes, with the objective of optimizing processes to achieve a competitive advantage. In his 2011 book, Design for Operational Excellence, Kevin J. customer requests for proposals (RFPs).

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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. In 2011 it was acquired for $85 million by Skype. Hackathons.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Reduces risk of becoming obsolete due to competitors. Improves chances of survival due to better solutions spawned from newer technologies. Source: Dr. Linda Beltz, organizational structures for open innovation, 2011. This includes significant changes in techniques, equipment and/or software. Guarantees long-term success.

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hackerearth

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Reduces risk of becoming obsolete due to competitors. Improves chances of survival due to better solutions spawned from newer technologies. Source: Dr. Linda Beltz, organizational structures for open innovation, 2011. This includes significant changes in techniques, equipment and/or software. Guarantees long-term success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Google acquired ITA Software in 2010, a software company that created airfare and travel management software for airlines and resellers. Google now sees its ownership of data as a competitive advantage to be protected from marketers and other advertising networks. Google is entering new industries and markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Since January 2011, we've gone further: We've now articulated these traits as full and formal requirements for the people we hire. Now, eight years later, his software designs are winning awards. We started by looking for interns — the right people with the right characteristics who wanted to learn how to code.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Our research shows that data breaches sometimes harm a firm’s close rivals (due to spillover effects), but sometimes help them (due to competitive effects). For an example of competitor harm due to these spillover effects, consider the July 2012 Nvidia data breach, which affected 400,000 user accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

since 1977 has been due to start-ups. It is startups who have generated virtually all of our nation's major technological breakthroughs in the last hundred years — from cars and planes to semiconductors, PCs, software, and the Internet — and in the process sparked the creation of whole new industries and millions of new jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. billion stake.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

From data scientists to web developers to designers, firms are locked in competition for technical talent. The researchers looked at the gap between how much IT workers made in their current job and how much they listed as their “target” salary when job searching, using data from Glassdoor.com from between 2006 and 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

Community and social media managers of 2011, please try to contain your amusement at the idea that 1000 posts per day represented an unmanageable volume.) From the free software movement to the hostility to metered data, Internet users and opinion leaders have continued their romance with the idea of a cost-free Internet.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Annually, my firm ManpowerGroup conducts a global Talent Shortage Survey [pdf] , and remarkably, from 2010 to 2011, the percentage of employers in the U.S. Constructing work differently to take advantage of the specialized talent that is currently available can create a huge competitive advantage. million open jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Emergent social software platforms are here to stay; they'll be part of the fabric of our personal and professional lives from now on. We now expect the hardware and software we use to be appealing, intuitive, and powerful, all at once. These are: Social Computing, (or Web 2.0 , Enterprise 2.0, Live in fragments no longer.".

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Content is free and supplied by consumers who write reviews voluntarily. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

draws its global competitive advantage from its openness to new people and new ideas. Instead, we invested in software and analytics. Similarly, in 2011, HP was declining at a precipitous rate. The American Dream is still alive, and it is core to innovation and competitiveness. I believe the U.S. But we must protect it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Recognizing that corporate responsibility can offer a company a competitive advantage today, we became interested in IBM as a pioneer in establishing a skills-based volunteerism initiative that also influences its talent and professional development strategies. The On Demand Community portal is more than a marketplace; it’s a library.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Recognizing that corporate responsibility can offer a company a competitive advantage today, we became interested in IBM as a pioneer in establishing a skills-based volunteerism initiative that also influences its talent and professional development strategies. The On Demand Community portal is more than a marketplace; it’s a library.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

For example, when Apple expanded from music players to phones, it carried over to the iPhone not just the technology and software that powered the iPod but also users' entire music collections and its music store's entire supplier base. It pursued this very same course with great success when it launched the original Kindle in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Great data scientists are not only adept at coding but have creative intelligence, and a knack for storytelling , both verbally and visually. As recently as 2011, there were next to no formal training programs. Competition is fierce. The qualities we outlined in the original article are still very much part of the profession.

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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. Although Zhou had outperformed the financial plan, the gap between 3721’s market position and the local competition was widening. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. internet company in China.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. This is no quaint summer-weekend reenactment. Sony is suing LG. Nokia is suing HTC. We need more.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Between 2008 and 2011, the turnover rate of Tupperware's predominately part-time sales people (consultants, as the company calls them) fell by 15%. They have to realize that internal social media success isn't really about the software but about the emotional connection it creates.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Regulators — often spurred into action by incumbents threatened by the new competition — have cast jaundiced looks in the direction of every one of the new sharing economy services, in some cases ruling them in violation of long-standing laws. Users also rate and review each other. These are not rhetorical questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. The result was that Apple struggled to create a robust platform connecting Apple customers and software producers. By 2011, its PlayStation had become the best-selling game console of all time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The PPA framework combines consumer insights, competitive dynamics, and a company’s capabilities to identify ideas, simulate, and test results. While Coke’s annual revenues for its standard sizes fell 1%-2% from 2011-15, their mini-can counterparts registered 10%-15% increased sales through the period.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

"Free" product competition strikes again and the latest casualty is Weight Watchers, whose CEO recently left the company in the midst of the onslaught of free weight loss and fitness applications. Meanwhile, Quicken did the right thing when they bought Mint.com , a free threat to their personal finance software. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

It acquired social-software maker blueKiwi and combined the acquired company’s application with two from Microsoft, creating a platform that allows individuals and teams, including those in partners and clients, to enter virtual “communities” where they can collaborate on complex projects.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

A 2011 study by Partnership for a New American Economy found that 76% of patents awarded to the top 10 patent-producing U.S. This is exactly what Andrew James Viterbi , an Italian immigrant, did in 1967 when he invented the Viterbi algorithm, an error correcting code which has been used widely in cellular phones. born co-inventors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

billion bid to acquire the Huiyuan Juice Group, the largest such acquisition of a Chinese firm at the time, was derailed when an executive opened a spear-phishing email containing a link to key-logging software. They can also deploy code to hide their entry and exit data from logs, so no one knows they were there.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

This ambitious goal envisioned a software program that learns by ‘observing and learning from the past, acting in the present and anticipating the future.’ and by 2010 was acquired by Apple and launched as part of the iPhone operating system in October 2011. The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. GE Digital has built software capabilities, very different from the people GE has in its core businesses. But Vanguard’s robo-advisor platform hit the ground running in its May 2015 debut and by the end of the year had $31.1

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

So they advertise the available job, offer a competitive compensation package, and a queue forms. Most organizations want to hire employees to perform a set of tasks. The queue is made up of people who need money to pay for their living expenses, such as food and rent. In a model like this, the job is just a means to an end.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Messages can even be aimed at specific brands and their respective followers, enabling businesses to go directly after the competition and its client base. Twitter recently unveiled a feature enabling paid Tweets to be targeted by zip code.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

It begins with our grant application: While many of our innovators are accustomed to writing research grants, our application is more akin to a business-plan competition. To ensure rapid iteration, we paired the ER staff with two software architects, a user-experience designer, a visual designer, a business analyst, and a project manager.

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