The Empowered Buisness

AUGUST 18, 2015

However, for many organizations, over-emphasis on accountability stifles creative thinking, innovation and visioning. As we mature as adults, we lose that creative spark. In a future article, I will address the process of modeling at greater length. That’s a good thing to a point. We lose our inquisitive thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Yet these technologies rarely share data, let alone leverage it to support better clinical care. An accelerated effort is needed to create mature standards and expand their adoption by manufacturers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Management knows it and so does Wall Street: The year-to-year viability of a company depends on its ability to innovate. Yet many companies have not yet learned to manage innovation strategically. One tool we've developed to help companies manage their innovation portfolio is the Innovation Ambition Matrix (see the chart below).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While consumers are free to pick and choose the technology they will buy, the information they will access, and the degree to which they will network and with whom, managers and employees within companies are more constrained by the processes, structures, functions, systems, and technology the company invests in and deploys over time.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. " In my humble opinion this statement is solid as a rock.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. It's not surprising that younger entrepreneurial firms are considered more innovative. So why doesn't innovation thrive in mature organizations?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Take the question that has lately been put on the political table because of the prosperity bind facing so many mature economies. Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

The chart below illustrates the range of big data initiatives that are underway at leading corporations, with expense reduction being the most mature, as measured by the number of initiatives that are underway, with nearly one-half of all executives indicating that they have decreased expenses as a direct result of their investments in big data.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are driven by advances in core technologies along with a new, open architecture — the Bitcoin blockchain. Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Diversity is both an issue of fairness and, some say, a driver of innovation and performance. To assess the latter claim, we undertook a large, cross-country study into the relationship between multiple aspects of managerial diversity, the presence of enabling conditions such as leadership support for diversity, and innovation outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We also analyzed the top 50 ranked HBR articles of all time (by reprint sales). The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Many of the technologies we now take for granted were quiet revolutions in their time. ” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. The fifth major innovation on the horizon is called blockchain scaling. This is slow.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But Apple’s technological innovativeness is not the full story. Think about it this way: Most health apps that you can find in the App Store are a technological marvel. Apple, Samsung, and the others are stuck in a battle of sustaining innovations, which is about classic competition on who makes a better phone.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is the context Tracy Goss, Richard Pascale, and Anthony Athos talk about in their article. But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. The case studies the authors outline in the article are familiar to me.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. All rights reserved.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Toward the end of last year, one of the first platishers, Say Media, announced it was selling off its publishing properties to focus on its technological platform. But these differences are largely cultural.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own. This is not to say that you don’t need people who understand AI technologies. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

When I argue that e-commerce isn’t likely to destroy innovative omnichannel retailers , I typically receive passionate responses. Still, market maturation often forces sustained expenditures just to hold ground. A common argument is that rapidly evolving digital technologies will increase e-commerce’s advantages.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. All rights reserved.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager. Here’s the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. The resulting Sanford Data Collaborative, now in its second year, has attracted regional and national partners and is already beginning to deliver data-driven innovations that are improving care delivery, patient engagement, and care access. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Health Care Short-term Maturity System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber. There are exceptions, however, such as Lowe’s, the home-improvement retailer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The first is interactive product placement, which is technology-driven and leverages the consumer desire for immediacy and relevance while watching a TV show. The second is reverse product placement, an innovative way of launching new brands that can protect the integrity of the show and respect the empowerment of the imaginative consumer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

As Todd Zenger wrote here earlier this week , many investors want to buy stock in a safer, maturing search advertising business without buying into Google’s riskier moonshots. Malone — also a technology visionary — feels similarly; he’ll bet against the market when he thinks that it is wrong.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. It’s true that different sectors and markets are at different stages of development and maturity. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. Innovate more effectively? reduced instances of teams playing four games in five days by 26%.

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