Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 8, 2016

The opportunity to proactively leverage disruptive events in an effort to leapfrog the competition and actually accelerate results. Exciting new management concepts such as The Law of the 21st Century Business Jungle*, Age of Disruption Principles*, and the 21st Century Competitiveness Cycle*. and India.

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ITONICS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, universities are including entrepreneurship as part of the academic curriculum to boost innovative thinking among students. As of 2017, more than 200 colleges and universities have started dedicated innovation or entrepreneurship centers as members of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey. Beware of the lure of outsourcing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

can become more economically competitive, and more successful in creating good jobs for Americans. Competitiveness, published in the March issue of the HBR , is. But there's a special focus here on what business leaders can and should be doing to improve the nation's competitive position. Twenty-one authors. Fourteen articles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

The cloud , open source software, cheap computing resources, and ideas from local technology hubs are redesigning Africa. In fact, it shows promise for a golden era of entrepreneurship anchored by local innovation. Even if the commodity boom returns , these structures will remain because they are homegrown and well-designed.

Entrepreneurship 15

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Abe’s talent attracted investors but he deeply disliked babysitting customers and supervising non-coding positions. Consulting an analyst after the fourth failure helped Bruce realize that it wasn’t making money that was he really wanted; he needed to satisfy his hyper-competitive need to be top-dog at whatever he did.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues. ” “Great,” you might say.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Note: This is the second post of the Transformational Entrepreneurship series. The first post defines Transformational Entrepreneurship and introduces the value creation matrix used below.]. I believe the decrease in big ideas for software companies is the result of homogeneous founding teams in the Valley. Quite the contrary.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Note: This is the second post of the Transformational Entrepreneurship series. The first post defines Transformational Entrepreneurship and introduces the value creation matrix used below.]. I believe the decrease in big ideas for software companies is the result of homogeneous founding teams in the Valley. Quite the contrary.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

According to the report, the data can even act as “a proxy for a city’s competitiveness.”. Of course, entrepreneurship is booming in San Francisco. This doesn’t mean that regulation has no bearing on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Government' Yet, one U.S. city stands out like a sore thumb.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

According to the report, the data can even act as “a proxy for a city’s competitiveness.”. Of course, entrepreneurship is booming in San Francisco. This doesn’t mean that regulation has no bearing on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Government' Yet, one U.S. city stands out like a sore thumb.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Today's America will need to find a different formula for competitiveness and job creation. Because about 85% of startups fail within four years, increasing the potential returns to entrepreneurship to these risk-averse individuals seems like the wrong incentive. The problem with that formula is that it's gone.

Entrepreneurship 15

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Muhtar Kent's remarks were prompted by the complexities of America's tax code, its bureaucratic red tape, and its polarized political process. Chinese society is highly competitive. As Chinese state-owned enterprises upgrade their talent management and expand internationally, that is itself a competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Typically, tourism involves guided tours, pitch events, conferences with lots of panels, and well-planned visits to companies, universities, and government agencies tasked with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. Here are some tips for a useful innovation tour: Tip 1: Look for the “software,” not the “hardware.”

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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 X Prize Foundation has transformed commercial space entrepreneurship with its innovative X Prizes. — will design the right kind of stimulative competition or prize? Gerontabletification.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Increasingly, competitive advantage stems from how firms combine and recombine resources — their own and those of their merger and alliance partners. IBM acquired Lotus to move into software and gain a new focus. IBM used Lotus as a springboard into software, and was willing to jettison mature hardware businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

It has become an issue of not only our global competitiveness, but also our citizenship and national security. Will it be the classic market driven forces of for-profit innovation driven by venture capital and corporate entities, or will it be through social entrepreneurship and philanthropy in the not-for profit model?

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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

APRIL 17, 2015

Nike subsequently became an innovator in supply chain accountability and promulgated a rigorous supplier code of conducts, accompanied by third-party factory inspections. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. .” Protests and calls for boycotts put Nike in the center of battles around globalization. When William Clay Ford Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

The decision needs to be made as to which of the current patents and copyrights you own should be deliberately spun off to others, preferably with a revenue-generating asset attached that only you possess, as illustrated by Coke's secret syrup formula and Microsoft's source code.

Entrepreneurship 15

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Agile development laid the intellectual groundwork for the Lean movement in entrepreneurship, which further pushed business leaders to organize their business model and product development work around a series of experiments, testing critical hypothesis along the way. Continuous Development is a growing trend in the software industry.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Because of the direct and experiential way this non-numeric data is generated, these opportunities are appealing because they're unpredictable and unknowable to rivals, unlike the even playing fields generated by quantitative competition. Tags: Entrepreneurship Getting buy-in Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

Consider Kaggle , Innocentive and other global competitions designed to bring global talent to bear on provocative problems. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. But speed and agility matter measurably more for many innovators than proprietary software development and patent filings. Their winners are typically worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. IBM had a near death experience in the early 1990s due a series of bad business decisions. They abandoned the HP Way and replaced decentralized entrepreneurship with centralized control. Does biology inform business?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. Are they out-competing their rivals, or are they using their size and influence to avoid competition altogether? But why is IT leading to winner-take-all competition?

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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. and EBITDA margins are 47%. Think about that.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

We observed Q&A interactions between 140 prominent venture capitalists (40% of them female) and 189 entrepreneurs (12% female) that took place at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, an annual startup funding competition. Our study then tracked all funding rounds for the startups that launched at the competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Let me note just four of particular importance to California’s tech sector, all dealing with capital—whether human or financial: Non-compete clauses – California is the only jurisdiction in the world that flatly refuses to enforce non-compete clauses, a policy codified in Section 16600 of the Business and Professions Code.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Go out and interview 10 companies in this space before tomorrow and tell us if they really have any interest in buying this software,’” Tilton told me. “In our very naive early entrepreneurship days, we thought we were going to be able to sell math,” Tilton remembers. This is Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

You’ve heard of software as a service? Hiring the best people is the easiest way to build a high functioning, competitive organization. Entrepreneurship Managing people' Be aware, there’s a risk here that the pendulum swings too far, and companies end up under-managed. This is management as a service.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

While there is no doubt an intent to strengthen India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, its state support is more limited and less sophisticated than China’s in addressing the voids that impede innovation and entrepreneurship. Leverage local government policy efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The crisis we speak of has even more severe consequences for Europe’s global competitiveness. Europe’s gap is concentrated heavily in electronics, software, and internet services. This has nothing to do with an influx of refugees, or Greek debt, or even the future of the European Union. in Sub-Saharan Africa and 27.7%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development. city that’s less competitive than Silicon Valley. Among the advantages: less competition for talent. Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Most believe that founder depression is caused by an increasingly complex and competitive world. Not everyone has the personality to be a founder, but more and more people are choosing to start their own companies because entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as an attractive and prestigious career path. Failure is common.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

We found those qualities in abundance — and are delighted, along with our partners at Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Company, to announce 24 finalists (in alphabetical order): Don't Use Your New Innovation Project to Change Your Business Model — Build On What You Do Well and Ensure Your Success.

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