Idea to Value

MARCH 11, 2016

IBM partnered with food magazine Bon Apetit, and allowed Watson to data-mine its database of thousands of recipes. While that is interesting, the real changes will come out of letting learning computers loose on the internet’s data so that they can learn human concepts. So what comes next?

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Organizational debt was coming due. the company had.

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Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 8, 2016

In Cragun and Sweetman's upcoming book, Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption [Greenleaf Book Group Press, July 2016] , the authors propose a simple formula, common principles, and set of tools for individuals and organizations facing disruptive and radical change. It’s no longer enough to change when you have to.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2020

Adopting crowdsourcing also implies change – most importantly, change in the organizational culture – and the change management process is never easy. This sentiment was eloquently expressed in a 2010 Visions Magazine article by James A. In this post, I’ll cover this aspect of adopting crowdsourcing. It’s this simple.

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Qmarkets

MARCH 27, 2020

Adopting crowdsourcing also implies change – most importantly, change in the organizational culture – and the change management process is never easy. This sentiment was eloquently expressed in a 2010 Visions Magazine article by James A. In this post, I’ll cover this aspect of adopting crowdsourcing. It’s this simple.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

According to Forbes Magazine, these were the most valuable companies in the world in: In just 9 years, technology companies overthrew every other sector. Facebook dropped from 5th to 7th – due primarily to its glass roof and lack of enticing offers. Is it just another buzzword? Why is this happening? Use a Big Data platform.

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 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. For many non-specialists it’s becoming increasingly hard to understand where one concept begins and another ends.

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The Human Factor

MAY 6, 2020

You could even change your career if you really wanted to, so long as you’ve made a success out of it. Now, with the advent of software like Microsoft Teams and others you can do this virtually. You can sign up with an agency or pitch the magazines. Maybe you want to save for a particular purchase or just a rainy day.

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etventure

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The automotive supply industry is facing the biggest challenges in years: low predictability due to radical changes in the market situation, competition from tech start-ups, dwindling margins and the changing role of mobility in society. Co-pace addressed this situation, in the form of the incubation program mvp.Builder.

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Integrative Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Infront Consulting and business magazine Capital recently published their second joint annual study (in German) on the Digital Innovation Unit landscape in Germany. The study analyzed the units in terms of set objectives and their achievements, as well as of the following success criteria : Steering. Themes / direction of impact.

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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. For many non-specialists it’s becoming increasingly hard to understand where one concept begins and another ends.

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eZassi

JULY 23, 2020

Recent studies have shown that as the world population has grown, Moore’s law has shortened due to globalization and the Internet. That means that the vast majority of results never show up due to geo-blockers, relevance filters, and their own proprietary prioritization schemes. But there was a problem. That is a lot left on the table.

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The Human Factor

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It can vary in severity – some people shun digital technology altogether (if you’re reading this post, that probably isn’t the case), whilst others may struggle with individual digital changes such as social media or switching to accounting software. In all cases, the best way to beat technophobia is to educate yourself.

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Adam Hartung

AUGUST 6, 2015

Are you in growth markets, creating new products with new technologies that meet unmet needs and have the potential to completely change your business? Sure technology is changing, but I don’t understand it, nor know how to use it. This led to on-line product sales, and smashing reviews.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

The ability to make thousands of changes a day to its online retail service has been a key reason Amazon is expanding its online lead over Walmart and other historically “bricks and mortar” retailers. They require uncommon teamwork between marketing-oriented product managers and software developers with a technical orientation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. Car and Driver magazine celebrated it as a “green” car that even an auto enthusiast could love.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Shrinking revenues, customers who pirate (and actively distribute) products, dizzying technology change, new competitors, defecting advertisers, plummeting discretionary consumer spending — almost everything that could go wrong for music, magazine publishing, radio, newspapers, and broadcast television has gone wrong in the last fifteen years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Nickelodeon is part of the MTV Networks where even the unwritten code of dress and grooming and behavior has one non-negotiable axiom: no matter what kind of work you do, it is essential to come across as youthful, or at least not too square. Yet the Internet and software and consumer electronics industries are dominated by people under 40.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Perhaps most notable was a story in Life magazine that included a photo of a Pakistani child sewing Nike-branded soccer balls, titled “Six cents an hour.” Nike subsequently became an innovator in supply chain accountability and promulgated a rigorous supplier code of conducts, accompanied by third-party factory inspections.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

the magazine asked. "An Female stars also perform better after changing jobs than their male counterparts do. Recently, The Economist published a brilliant little essay on the "management secrets" of FC Barcelona , universally considered the best soccer team in the world, perhaps of all time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

It ran on a site called HotWired.com, the original website of Wired Magazine , and it asked, “Have you ever clicked your mouse right HERE?” Now, many ads are served up by software systems targeting any digital device—from your smartphone and TV today, to the dashboard of your car and the thermostat in your home tomorrow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

And of course, once you've got the code running, why suffer the overhead of expensive human editors? Great media does the same thing, bringing together complementing and contrasting pieces into a whole that's greater than its parts (think of great issues of your favorite magazine, or your favorite album). In practice, a lot.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

To this end, if we reverse engineer today’s sustainability agenda, it is clear that a powerful element of its genetic code has been the Triple Bottom Line (variously rendered as TBL or 3PL). Changing the System. A decade ago, The Economist was already signaling that the term had become part of the business lexicon.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Such trends are more than shiny objects; they’re manifestations of sustained changes within an industry sector, society, or human behavior. Software applications that run automated tasks are called “bots.” Glitches aren’t software bugs, which can be tested and rectified. Here are eight to note for 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Fortunately, things have changed. is now commonly used by people (such as the editors of Selling Power magazine ) who have spent their careers watching the world of revenue generation. This blog post was excerpted from the authors' article " Teaching Sales " in the July-August issue of the magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

’” - Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine, June 23, 2008. Alternatively, if the confidence in the finding is low due to the fact you don’t have a handle on why two events are linked, you should be less willing to take actions that have significant potential downside. Consider the case of New York City’s sewer sensors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Surveying these changes, you might conclude that if your business isn’t a platform, you had better worry that one is coming your way. And many platforms today, such as 50-year-old MasterCard, were started back when a browser was someone thumbing through magazines at the local newsstand.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts). We advocate for three main changes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Business books, magazines, and blogs are chock full of advice about how to give feedback to individuals, but how do you do the same for your entire team? What needs to change?” Work your way up to structured reviews. Ask each person to prepare specific reviews of colleagues to be read aloud at the next meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

That takes time, though when momentum builds, change happens fast. How can incumbents manage through the monumental changes currently under way? One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Companies with foresight will pursue transitional models to be part of driving the change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg were in their early twenties when they launched what would become world-changing companies. magazine as the founders of the fastest-growing startups in 2015, the average age at founding was only 29. In software startups, the average age is 40, and younger founders aren’t uncommon.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In a week when People magazine announced its annual “Sexiest Man Alive,” I can’t help recalling an HBR article Tom Davenport and I published last year that was titled along similar lines. Great data scientists are not only adept at coding but have creative intelligence, and a knack for storytelling , both verbally and visually.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

One of my guilty pleasures is collecting old magazines. As collectibles go, magazines are at the bottom of the list. Old magazines don’t appreciate much in value, and most of the content can be found on the web. One magazine I particularly like is the July 19, 1963 issue of Life. Still, I like thumbing through them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Most brands do invest in “social listening” programs, from monitoring software to teams of analysts who scan the feeds in the hopes of muffling bad feedback and amplifying positive feedback. and Fortune Magazine. Despite these hurdles, some companies do manage to change. Travel, Inc., My Twitter feed exploded.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

That happens to be what many if not most magazine editors in the U.S. When magazine editors do it, its journalism. After all, what most of Buzzfeeds 500 employees do is create lists and quizzes. have been doing for the past 30-odd years. When Buzzfeed editors do it, its technology. And very few old media companies did.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Like Hubspot, whose widely-shared blog posts offer authoritative insight on everything from the evolution of Google+ to the the psychology of job interviews — topics that go far beyond the company’s specific business of inbound marketing software, but support its claims to expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2015

Lola is a labor and delivery nurse, an administrator and partner in a 65-bed long-term-care facility, president and consultant in a software technology company, director of operations in a long-term-care consulting company, chair of several hospital committees, and volunteer for a women’s fertility organization that travels to Africa.

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