LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The BoP markets are a hotbed for innovation and companies that are able to mold their business models to fit within this paradigm can truly alter traditional business models. The services are provided via agents with wireless tablets who travel to remote regions in mobile vans. Innovation Sandbox” was the term coined by C.K.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

By championing people who have been treated with injustice or undeserved and by fighting for ideas worth developing, a leader develops clout. In a world of rapid innovation, it’s easy for a new company to become a market leader. Good leaders are knowledgeable and experienced.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

The solution is machine learning —computers automatically discovering patterns and developing new knowledge by furiously feeding on modern society's greatest and most potent unnatural resource : data. Student essay grade prediction has been developed for automatic grading. Data can seem like such dry, uninteresting stuff.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 13, 2011

Yeah…when reception desk staff wanted a wireless printer.” Well the reception staff wanted a wireless printer, I made an appointment with Steve to talk about this, see what model and set-up systems would work best for the area and needs…and then when I introduced the idea in an operations team meeting. Tell me about that.”

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The growth in digital twins has been driven by technological improvements in areas such as the internet of things and wireless connectivity. Digital twins have been at the forefront of this move, with Ericsson developing a digital version of cities to explore how 5G networks might best be rolled out.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

Smart devices and wireless connections are now nearly everywhere and have already contributed immensely to the growth of the e-commerce industry. With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

that focuses on customers and innovation. It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. The HP Board of Directors has to be focused on prevention and good business practices to build a long term strategy. HP Has Decreasing Product Quality.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Although it's far too soon to tell whether that program will lead to a major new line of business, Whole Foods should be commended for continuing to innovate during the current economic doldrums when many companies have instead retrenched by making across-the-board cutbacks, even in product R&D. Wireless carriers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.” Uber doesn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

As generations-old business models are upended by innovations in retail, financial services, bookselling, and a host of other industries, companies must continually adjust their strategic positioning to edge out rivals. But then it recovered by innovating — fast. When Innovation Is Strategy. An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What is needed is sophisticated advocacy and communication — from personal to wireless — to advance vaccine literacy. This means that nearly 23.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

In three recent blog posts we looked at the innovation mindset in individuals, profiling game changers Jerry Buss , Peter Jackson , and Shantha Ragunathan. Innovators maintain a laser focus on outcomes , avoid getting caught in the activity trap , and proactively "expand the pie" to make an impact. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal. There are now more than 5.3

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies. Research & development Financial management'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

Editor's Note: This blog was co-authored with Tang Wang, doctoral student at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Missouri, Kansas City. Smart phones will be the occasion for significant " reverse innovation " in the coming months and years, we believe. This is exactly the pattern of reverse innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. What has escaped attention is that the device burst into a sector long insulated from the slightest threat of disruptive innovation. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. Armstrong’s Killer App. Then he paused.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. Novel subtlety and nuance can be wonderful but my innovation heart belongs to obvious. or "How can we push the innovation envelope?" This was obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider. It stiffed Cellairis and the wireless providers whose services it resold. Nothing more than a tweak, they thought.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

A McKinsey report estimated that reducing churn could increase earnings of a typical US wireless carrier by as much as 9.9 Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service. Developing the Global Leader. Lost customers lead to untapped dollars. Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. Innovation comes from courageous people with an entrepreneurial spirit. But to get change means encouraging innovators. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough. Look at the skies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

After all, the conventional wisdom holds that patents are essential to keep competitors from imitating innovations, especially for small startup companies. If rivals imitate, they will drive down prices, wiping out the potential profits on innovation, thus making it difficult or impossible to earn a return on R&D investments.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

They were first to experience a wireless, connected world, and according to a PwC report , they “expect the technologies that empower their personal lives to also drive communication and innovation in the workplace.” These enhance opportunities for both innovation and Millennial engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos and Renault’s CEO Carlos Ghosn are in India for the long-term, as a hub for middle-of-the–pyramid innovations that can serve all emerging and even developed markets. Second, they build strong local teams in India and shift resources and decision-making authority to India.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

As companies struggle to develop a new generation of internationally competent leaders, many are turning to localization instead. The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton). UPWARDLY MOBILE. You'd think these would be a mobile company's salad days.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Take the case of Safaricom , Kenya’s largest cell phone company and creator with Vodafone of the popular wireless banking product, M-Pesa. Kroton started by developing innovative curricula for K-12 education in one province, and then grew to become a national leader in online higher education.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. We studied Omada’s program as part of our Harvard Medical School initiative to identify and share knowledge about innovative approaches to major health challenges that primary care providers play the lead in treating.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." The ecosystem will develop. Bundling good.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

You don't make wireless Airplay speakers. If you're not asking customers all about this before you invest significant resources in the development of your product and marketing, then you are just guessing from a conference room. For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology. Be bold, be shameless. Billions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. Steve Jobs, influenced by Christensen, was keenly aware of the innovator's dilemma. Perhaps the greatest example of a user innovation at Apple was the iPhone itself.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Silicon Valley, with its proximity to Stanford and University of California, Berkeley, has long been the paradigm for innovation ecosystems. Soon thereafter a project with multi-year funding was developed to focus on a question of fundamental science in personalized medicine. Cultivate institutions, not just individuals.

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