Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Over the past decade, America has been a leader in the design, development and marketing of competitions and prizes for technical innovation. — will design the right kind of stimulative competition or prize? The rise of accessible augmented reality technologies makes physical location matter more.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

So what can we expect in 2012 in a world that seems to grow ever connected by the hour? It's likely that the trend will have to evolve given how competition for our time and attention this gaming creates. For example, Sears allows a user to share a product or review with their networks directly from the site. The Micro Economy.

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Adam Hartung

MAY 20, 2016

Same store sales were also up 1%, but analysts pointed out that was largely due to lower prices to hold competitors at bay. While investors cheered the news, at the higher valuation WalMart is still only worth what it was in June, 2012 (just under $70/share.) It was only $1.1B on $115B, about 1%, but it was UP!

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Innovation 360

JANUARY 13, 2014

In a study conducted in the year of 2012 to 2013, it showed that twice the proportion of businesses in innovation has increased their productivity. Lead to more competitive advantage. This is mainly due to the reason that customers will rely much on organizations with the most updated services and products. Business agility.

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Rmukesh Gupta

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

It tried to answer a fundamental question – “Has all the technological and business model innovations that have led to the flourishing of the gig economy, actually created viable new options for making a living for those who participate in this economy.”. We identify 38 million payments directed through 128 different online platforms to 2.3

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MSSBTI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Meanwhile, there may also be disruptors you cannot see or predict creating new types of competition. Perhaps they are using a new technology or are in another part of the world. Consider a company that had an international expansion plan in 2012. By 2013, Brazil and India were both suspect.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

It employs technology, focused creative teams, new manufacturing processes, and communications to remove time and waste when creating post-sporting event apparel featuring the winners and exciting story lines. How can you develop a super-agile process that disrupts other industry players’ competitive advantages?

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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.

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hackerearth

JUNE 29, 2017

Ideas that, if materialized into innovative products or services, align with your organization’s goals, increasing revenues and keeping competition at bay. Sustainable business (competition, better stock value, reduce cycle time, better quality, lesser costs). It does sound too good to be true, doesn’t it? You couldn’t be more wrong.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 30, 2020

Even before the pandemic, entrepreneurs already had a difficult time remaining relevant in an increasingly competitive market. Due to the fact that they could not function during quarantine, physical stores had to adapt quickly to survive. Currently, it is among the main technological trends in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Subsidies, while they have their place, can create disincentives for becoming lean and competitive. To be competitive and sustainable, alternative energy sources must ultimately match — or outperform — fossil fuels on price and performance. government must work to ensure fair competition globally.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online. Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The amount of time it took to deliver the results to the global audience was, in fact, 30 times faster than the race itself—and at the same time, 15 other Olympic competitions were simultaneously having their results relayed. Partnership, of course, is at the heart of everything an IT integrator does.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

One of these companies is a high-tech manufacturer, two of them are in the energy sector, and two of them are in the consumer transport business. But when the smartphone became the next big thing within the mobility market, the company lost its competitive edge. Five big companies. Five big problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Product Commoditization. Price versus Value.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. The way to increase seed- and early-stage financing for physical-product start-ups is to reduce individual investors' risk by improving the quality of due diligence and spreading risk across a larger number of investors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Airbnb has nearly doubled its user base every year since 2012 and is now worth $30 billion — nearly as much as Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel chain. economy became more concentrated from 1997 to 2012, and that the average share of the top four firms in each sector rose from 26% to 32%.

Competition 14

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

Some were due to layoffs caused by the global recession and slowing of manufacturing exports, which constitute around two-thirds of U.S. Many were due to increased imports and offshoring to low-cost locations. Technology to the rescue? The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. manufacturing output.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Few product releases are as hotly anticipated, fiercely competitive, or widely debated as those that keep the console wars waging. 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. There are already strategy lessons to be drawn from the contest.

Strategy 15

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Machine learning, pattern recognition, and other predictive analytics tools can constitute a source of competitive advantage for those companies that adopt them early on; but like any new capability, there is an enormous gulf between awareness, intent and early engagement, and achieving significant business impact.

Technical Review 14

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

In contrast to previous litigation between the two tech-giants—which revolved on the overall look of the phones—this case focused around autocomplete , tap-from-search and slide-to-unlock software. Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case.

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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. Here’s where the problem has become especially acute for information technology inventions such as smartphones and tablets. Innovation Tech industry Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. from 2012 through 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

So far, 2012 has been another banner year for the 'tyranny of success' as once great companies slide ever closer to the abyss. Why are companies often left flat-footed when competition strikes? Milestones are not necessarily tied to financial metrics and are reviewed in monthly meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Keurig’s founders started from scratch when they created their proprietary coffeemaker and K-cup technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Corporate leaders — and especially large company CEOs — are finally realizing what their employees and customers already know: That using social technologies to engage with customers, suppliers, and even with their own employees enables their companies to be more adaptive and agile. Why the change?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. As early as 2012, the company saw the potential of big data in the agriculture industry.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent.

Strategy 14

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. The more your competitive advantage depended on maintaining that trade-off between richness and reach, the more vulnerable it would be. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Let's do a quick review. According to the theory of the diffusion of innovations — an attempt to understand how, why and at what rate ideas and technology spread throughout cultures — diffusion or adoption is relatively slow at the outset until a tipping point is reached. Images copyright 2012 Juan C.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

As sales becomes more technologically advanced, the trend is for B2B companies to rely more on Big Data and less on information gathered from one-on-one personal interactions. The same study by CSO also found that nearly 90% of sales leaders report missing opportunities due to information overload.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

As sales becomes more technologically advanced, the trend is for B2B companies to rely more on Big Data and less on information gathered from one-on-one personal interactions. The same study by CSO also found that nearly 90% of sales leaders report missing opportunities due to information overload.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. Energy Information Administration notes that between 2010 and 2012, 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity was retired and that a total of 60 GW will be retired by 2020.

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