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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess

Harvard Business Review

Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.

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A Brief History of Blockchain

Harvard Business Review

.” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. The fourth major innovation, the current cutting edge of blockchain thinking, is called “proof of stake.” Proof-of-work systems are expected to go live later this year.

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The companies thriving today are operating by a new set of rules — Social Era rules. And to them, notions like distributing power to everyone, working in extended community to get things done, or allowing innovation to happen anywhere and everywhere are, well, ridiculously obvious. They live it.

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Why AOL Should Double Down on Patch

Harvard Business Review

The startup is trying to build a platform that could replace a disaggregated network of local news sources. Almost all of these disruptive businesses are ridiculed or ignored in their initial years of operations by existing players. Patch has the potential to be a truly disruptive business. Consider the market.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities.

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The Human Element in Digital Prototyping

Harvard Business Review

As the cost of operating online (i.e., Disaggregate the drivers. Innovation Marketing Research' Ease of testing. development, bandwidth, fulfillment, etc.) decreases exponentially, companies are able to launch solutions and conduct testing (A/B testing, cohort analysis, funnel analysis, etc.)