First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2011

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That we’re still largely waiting for such an immersive world to take hold, despite much-hyped initiatives, such as Second Life, perhaps underlines the difficulties the technology has had in keeping pace with such a vision. Digital twins. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 Worth paying attention to?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. Some firms are investing heavily in R&D to expand their technological capabilities, while others don’t make that investment and so fall further behind.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tony Wagner that first appeared in Education Week (November 11, 2003). Don’t let the publication date fool you. If anything, his recommendations are even more urgently needed now than they were then. To read the complete article, please click here. © Tony Wagner * * [.].

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits? But hey, what do I know?

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2019

There are no shortage of breathless predictions about the impact new technologies are likely to have on the workplace, and many erstwhile reports have placed the poorly skilled firmly in the crosshairs of automated tools. The researchers assess young people who completed their GCSE exams between 2003 and 2008.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. And creating an innovative culture: Real innovation comes not from top-down pronouncements and narrowly defined tasks. His self-knowledge made is easier for him to know when it was time to go as he eventually did in 2003 not long after Netflix went public.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO used indigenous components and technologies that are far cheaper than foreign imports. Converting these non-consumers into consumers will require breakthrough innovations — quality products at affordable prices. The starting point for such innovations is a big idea, a big dream. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

Björk is the Icelandic singer-songwriter who, by 2003, had sold 15 millions albums. But they've given us cultural innovations of some interest. The accidents of industry, technology, and the marketplace gave us the 3-minute song bundled in multiples of 6 or 8 or 10 songs. Her current album is Biophilia. No idle reference, this.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

It is one that I tell in my book, The Coming Prosperity ) When he started building the mobile phone company Roshan in 2003, he faced some singular challenges. Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way.

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. If everyone followed that logic, however, there’d be little innovation to walk out the door or to acquire! Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Similar to the government’s existing ‘Help to Grow: Management’ scheme, the programme would subsidise leaders in small firms to undertake an intensive course covering everything from adopting digital technology to sourcing new potential markets.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. Maybe it was Nick Carr’s famous May 2003 HBR article “ IT Doesn’t Matter ” that did it. Economy Information & technology Internet'

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

percentage points in 2003-2012. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level. China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

And where there is differentiation, there can be innovation. Perhaps drawing on a national affinity for design, Italcementi has rediscovered cement as the raw material of architectural beauty, transforming a drab, gray powder into a technologically advanced and aesthetically sophisticated building material.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." Bharti, on the other hand, has little expertise in technology. In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But the team went beyond that, figuring that if they were having difficulty with certain technology infrastructure problems, it was highly likely that other companies were experiencing similar problems. Innovation Internet' Jassy and Amazon could have come up with a solution to this internal scaling problem and stopped there.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S., Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is delivered to patients. So where is the link to health care?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? in 2003, an all-time high. (Of First, with the rise of the digital economy, we are entering a new era of managerial innovation with both opportunities and major risks. Boards Technology' Not likely.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the language of social innovation, it must have a well-thought-out "theory of change" (or "logic model"). If you have an innovative job-training program, for example, it must be clear why participants stay in the program, how it helps them acquire jobs upon graduating, and what promise it holds for improving the quality of their lives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out of the Innovation Box" was not the title I had wanted, but it worked.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. By applying the solar technology he used at work, Poss envisioned how a new machine might better manage trash. The truck was idling at a pickup point, blocking traffic, with smoke pouring out of its exhaust. Employing cognitive ambidexterity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8% to 1% per year if not for joint ventures that allowed for transfers of knowledge and technology, as opposed to domestic innovation. It implies that TFP driven by innovation and technological progress (independent of foreign investment) accounts for about 5 to 14% of GDP growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Without such data it is simply too easy for competitors to let you do the hard work of innovation, then copy your insights and erode your competitive advantage. I use the term "proprietary data" after the 2003 HBR classic, "IT Doesn't Matter," by Nicholas Carr. This logic applies directly to data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. And delayed intervention means fewer treatment options and poorer outcomes. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The reality today is that businesses, governments, and nonprofits are so complex and often must move so quickly that in many cases, finding answers to difficult questions requires tapping experts, service providers, and innovators scattered all over the world. Collaboration Leadership'

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It may well be that some Self-Starters lack the equipment, technology, or funding needed to perform well and have simply given up. Prior to starting his own business in 2003, Gordy was a Vice President and General Manager for Personnel Decisions International and an Associate Professor at the USAF Academy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

A 2003 U.S. Going forward, we must remember that in our time of revolutionary technological progress, almost any innovation brings minor risks along with its benefits. A few innovations impose major risks, or even worse.

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