Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 6, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Well not anymore, GE recently in its 3 rd quarter review revealed its chronic cash position. There was a growing denial set in by all that steady reassuring news.

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ITONICS

APRIL 26, 2018

The rapid growth of smart devices pushes the development of smart services in various industries, such as healthcare, education, information and communication technology (ICT), mechanical engineering, automotive, and logistics. 2005), “Four strategies for the age of smart services”, Harvard Business Review , Vol. Allmendinger, G.

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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). Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Now, how about these? A good idea or two will suffice.

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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). Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Now, how about these? A good idea or two will suffice.

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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). Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Now, how about these? A good idea or two will suffice.

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Idea Drop

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Although Kodak had early access to the first digital camera technology, they chose not to develop it as they felt it would kill their own film business. They filed for bankruptcy in 2012. The post Adapt or die: lessons from 5 companies that failed to innovate appeared first on Idea Drop | Idea Management Software.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 16, 2018

As increased consumer awareness transforms markets and government policy, and as technology creates so many unexpected shortcuts, I believe that this trend will only continue in the future. Rising competition from Apple and Google caught Nokia out of position and led to near-bankruptcy in 2012.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The skinny: Uber launched in London in mid-2012. Who it’s from: Harvard Business Review. Today, many are rethinking banking relationships with consumers, and are leveraging digital technology to fuel new product offerings. Here are 10 new discoveries from this past week. Why Black Cabs Need to Innovate, Not Fight.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Given ongoing trends, consumers will soon find self-quantification apps and options as ubiquitous as "Like" buttons and QR codes. The rise of accessible augmented reality technologies makes physical location matter more. But that's a battle for beyond 2012. Gerontabletification. Demography is, indeed, destiny.

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hackerearth

JUNE 29, 2017

To learn how you can introduce idea management software in your business, Click here. Unfortunately, about 80% of these schemes are ineffective due to irrelevant ideas, duplicate suggestions, a deluge of submissions making evaluation difficult, and no means to track the status of a submitted idea. Description. Järrehult, 2009).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. Open sourcing" means to make software's source code publicly available, so that anybody can recreate the software or modify it to make their own version. What if everyone thinks our code is lousy, and nobody likes us?

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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

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

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. Open sourcing" means to make software's source code publicly available, so that anybody can recreate the software or modify it to make their own version. What if everyone thinks our code is lousy, and nobody likes us?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. Consumers spent six times as much time on retailers'' apps in December 2012 compared with the previous year. Advertising Technology' "Mobile first."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. New energy management software can also help identify consumption inefficiency and automate electricity usage when necessary by collecting site-specific energy data.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In 2012, $10 billion in sales were made through mobile channels. In 2012, it delivered 200 million rewards, with redemption rates of 10 to 25 percent per reward. Consumers spent six times as much time on retailers’ apps in December 2012 compared with the previous year. Advertising Technology' “Mobile first.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. The company had very few software engineers.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

. “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.” As venture capital investor Marc Andreesen pointed out, “software is eating the world.” Innovation like this requires, among other things, technological aptitude. (Of

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

the technology research and advisory company. The number of attacks on critical infrastructure jumped from under 200 in 2012 to almost 300 attacks in 2015. These systems combine hardware, software, and geospatial analytics to enhance municipal services and improve an area’s livability. An estimated 2.3

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. Modeling scientist: Direct improvements in the product or business from the code developed and shipped. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images. The elusive full stack data scientists do exist, though they are hard to find.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Health care teams depend on electronic health records (EHRs) to compile important medical data from innumerable lab tests and medical devices, observations, treatments, and diagnostic codes. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. It also saves three to five minutes on chart review per patient per day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Today it's rare to find a CEO who won't acknowledge the impact digital technology is having on their business. In a digitally driven economy, the preferred way for everyone to interact with a company is through internet technologies, such as a company's website, mobile interface, or Twitter feed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

In their 2012 feature on big data , Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson describe the opportunity and report that “companies in the top third of their industry in the use of data-driven decision making were, on average, 5% more productive and 6% more profitable than their competitors” even after accounting for several confounding factors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. Last month, the court reversed an eminently sensible 2012 ruling by federal appeals judge Richard A.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Supreme Court issued a ruling limiting the scope of software patents. The same sentiment was behind Twitter’s announcement in 2012 of an Innovator’s Patent Agreement, designed so that “employees can be assured that their patents will be used only as a shield rather than as a weapon.”. Innovation Technology' Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

An effort under way at the Mayo Clinic shows how such technology can be used to improve outcomes and lower costs in health care. In addition to software development, we converted hundreds of pages of patient instructions and educational materials into videos, voice-over slideshows, and text modules that the software could deliver.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

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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. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. The company subsequently went private in early 2012. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Two years ago, Swedish communications technology giant Ericsson found itself looking for a way to explain the value it saw in the Internet of Things. Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. Before retiring in 2012, it was a balancing act he knew well. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

” In a 2012 article for Harvard Business Review, Maxwell Wessel argued that scale, “one of the last bastions from the competitive storm,” is no longer profitable or safe. For a long time, technology gave big players a competitive advantage because no one else could afford to be big.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

In the ensuing years, the technology ecosystem enabling the new ad medium would steadily unfold, while digital devices proliferated and network connectivity became ubiquitous. Yes, industry pioneers like Doubleclick were building technology systems to manage online ad serving, but the change was a matter of degree, not of kind.

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