Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. When the market tanked, however, all of the sudden its culture came to be seen as “cocksure” and “naive.”. So what they really examine is the current zeitgeist, which may or may not reflect current market reality.

Strategy 56

Strategy Case Study Survey Politics 56

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world. .

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Content 68

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. Cloud Computing. hours a day.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Stage-Gate Content 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it.

Technology 9

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO.

IPO 18

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. Effective execution became harder and harder, creating a vicious cycle of falling behind in the market, losing money, cancelling projects and shedding staff, all of which further damaged its ability to execute.

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? A core insight provides forward-looking understanding of customer needs, behaviors, and market trends.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

CEO 17

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Goldman used its power to scale to get to market quickly, assembling a pipeline of services, investing in sophisticated measurement systems and developing a global core curriculum. Early results are encouraging.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct. Yelp has expanded rapidly since it was founded in 2004 in San Francisco. As this trend gains momentum, businesses that rely on traditional marketing will be forced to adapt.

Retail 15

Retail Mass Marketing Comparison Advertising 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. After four years, systems had been tinkered with so much that new product launches became not only prohibitively expensive but also needed a very long time to market. IT management Information & technology Technology'

Technology 9

Technology CIO Agility Software 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Regardless of which number is right, there is no doubt that a lot of time and energy go into marketing products that will no longer exist in a year. The term was coined by the late Harvard Business School marketing professor, Theodore Levitt, in a 1960 article by the same name (republished in 2004). What is marketing myopia?

Levitt 8

Levitt Marketing Transportation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Cloud-based gaming poses a higher risk to the casual end of the market because it allows relatively complex games to be played on simpler, cheaper devices.

Strategy 15

Strategy Price Case Study Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. We found Mr. Yergin's dismissal of these risks premature and repetitive.

Price 11

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

in incremental market capitalization for every $1.00 in incremental market capitalization for $1.00 Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 of revenue growth.

B2C 14

B2C B2B Strategy Waterman 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

Company 18

Company Survey Finance Engineering 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. That was the case with Toys 'R Us and Amazon.com a few years ago.

Management 13

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

I synthesized Innosight's writing, notably Seeing What's Next (my 2004 book with Clayton Christensen) and a 2009 Harvard Business Review article about transformation in clean-tech , with my own field experience to highlight three areas to asses. Assessment area: Market fit. I ended my remarks with two quotes.

Trends 15

Trends Christensen Business Model Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 12

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about.

Media 12

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. In 2004, Michael Dell left the company, replaced by Kevin Rollins, a former Bain consultant who joined the company in 1996. For more background on the potential deal, click here.) Dell returned as CEO in 2007.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system. Rackspace went public in 2008 — shortly before the financial markets went belly up. In short, it is their primary management system.

Customer Loyalty 16

Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. Of course it would be ideal to hire a manager who is equally adept in Peoria and Pune, but there is a paucity of such talent in a growing emerging market. ’s branded generic-medicine unit in India for $3.7

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The gap is growing between traditional sales-and-marketing-driven behemoths with their "customer-centric" approach and the new breed of organizations like Square and Zipcar, who have a "UX-centric" culture. All of it.".

Leadership 14

Leadership Ries CEO Products 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, women pursuing undergraduate computer science degrees have dropped from 37% to 18%, from 1987 to 2012 , respectively. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. For many of the very largest market opportunities, technology is merely an enabler.

Attrition 11

Attrition Diversity Sports CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Others need a course correction while still profitable (Microsoft), or a momentum shift because of disruptive new technologies (newspaper companies).

How To 13

How To Airlines Open-book Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. Access to mature global markets. The acquisition was a huge success. So determine what you have to offer in these areas.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Entrepreneurship Finance Technology'

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Finance Hedge Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

It is rare to find an American company that is not developing a market strategy to benefit from the rapid growth of emerging markets such as Brazil, India, and China. These include, among others, access to foreign markets for investments, protecting intellectual property, or visas for skilled, temporary staff. Instead, U.S.

Strategy 10

Strategy Globalization Politics Telecommunications 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

While searching for other people using Delicious to organize their professional networks, I discovered Marnie Webb, who had introduced the use of the nptech tag into the community of nonprofit technology users; Marnie became a client and a friend. I stored my first bookmark on October 14, 2004, on the day I wrote my very first blog post.

Media 15

Media Software Competitive Advantage Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

EPS 14

EPS Incentives Innovation Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. A Rise Fueled by Subsidies.

Price 8

Price Bond Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors. But guess what?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. They pointed out that we were a very young company, but our market value was $45 billion—more than the entire U.S. At that point we were a single technology company. billion in revenue, and before the bust we’d projected that by 2004, we’d be at $5 billion.

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8