Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Historic innovation often comes during times of historic difficulty, as these breakdowns create the demand for something new to emerge. Suppressing Innovation. Not Listening.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Self-driving vehicles, once a science fiction technology, are rapidly becoming a reality that promises to transform our lives – making it safer and more efficient to move people and goods, while reinventing our thinking about transportation. Arizona startup Local Motors developed “Ollie,” the self-driving bus here.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders. To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. They believe big companies are weighed down by their own success, too invested in the past to create and execute new ideas. Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Here's an uncomfortable truth about innovation: No matter how great your idea, you can't deliver breakthrough innovation without breakthrough organizational design. But even if you get all of that right, your effort will fall apart if you build the wrong team to execute. You have to innovate from scratch.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The inability of established firms to come up with breakthrough innovations is a truism today. Joseph Schumpeter, the 20 th century economist known for heralding the role of innovation in the evolution of society, argued that established firms were best positioned to innovate because of the resources available to them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Waymo’s Director of Operations Shaun Stewart said that one of the reasons they chose Trov is that innovative technology needs innovative partners. ” Founder and CEO of Trov Scott Walchek said that “ this partnership highlights the convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

At the recent INNOVEIT event in Brussels, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology launched its Deep Tech Talent Initiative , which aims to provide a million people across the EU with the skills required to function in the deep tech sector in the coming years.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

We couldn’t agree more about the need for innovation. The response to Ebola has largely relied on public health strategies established over a century ago and technology that has been around for decades. The unique character, scale, and persistence of this epidemic demand innovation in how Ebola is tackled.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Clearly, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technologies are finding their way into most everything that we touch and use in everyday life, including consumer products, financial services and healthcare delivery. ” In October, Samsung Electronics unveiled Bixby 2.0, Like this column?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Our research showed that it is possible for business executives to assess how susceptible their industry is to disruption and why, and to do the same at a more granular level for their company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The beneficiaries will be small businesses that provide innovative products, services and solutions. There is no week in big cities when a technology event is not happening. We have also observed more funding opportunities for technology companies. Technology hubs are emerging and Silicon Valley continues to inspire.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?” Yet those very weaknesses give startups an overwhelming advantage in innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber, like all transportation services, has never and will never offer a product that’s composed purely of digital “bits,” as companies do in media (Netflix and YouTube), music (Spotify), or advertisements (Facebook and Google). Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. The carriers blamed poor execution.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

You don’t have to be a programmer in Silicon Valley or a gene splicer in biotech to unleash exciting innovations and create huge value. Yet little did I know that some of the most extraordinary innovations I’ve seen would take place in the pizza business. The scale of the changes at Domino’s are remarkable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

I have seen stagecraft applied successfully in recent projects at Continuum Innovation, a Boston-based firm with which I am affiliated. One was a recent project for the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. In the past, the agency’s attempts to design gear around emerging technology had missed the mark.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

But let's take a step back and consider the nature of the controversy, which I think is rooted in the way many inventors approach innovation. Other executives have similarly impressive backgrounds at Apple and in the aerospace and automotive industries. Many would-be innovators suffer the same problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

There are two kinds of health-care innovation: more-for-more and more-for-less. is the place to take advantage of the latest innovations such as proton-beam cancer-radiation therapy, for which the equipment and facilities cost about $1 billion. just has not been desperate enough to foster Indian-style health-care innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It won't be global middle class level with incomes of over $70,000, but still above subsistence living, buying health care, food, education, transportation, and entertainment. C ommitting to systematic execution: Turning ideas into action and executing relentlessly. One such is General Electric.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse. And that's because some of the best paths to encourage innovation are surprisingly simple. But I think the declinism is overwrought. Take a walk.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Yet the large organizations in which we work are often inflexible and incapable of adaptation and true innovation. Through random interactions, the location of this new information spreads quickly Very soon, thousands of ants converge on this food source and begin transporting bits of it back to the colony.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future. Knowing that today’s operations will almost always win the lion’s share of resources, you need to consciously create a protected class of innovative ideas to invest in, even if money is tight.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

In February, President Obama issued an executive order aimed at protecting critical infrastructure, adding the administration''s voice to those of Congressional members and corporate leaders in the national conversation on cybersecurity. Every C-level executive has a role in stemming the tide of cyber-attacks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

When I presented that thesis to a room of executives, including in the automotive industry, four years ago, most of them said that this scenario is at best 20 years away, that “Tesla would never be able to produce a solid car,” and that “Lyft and Uber are just for Millennials.” Tesla’s future is uncertain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

And even though executives in the industry know all this, it’s still hard for them to break away from the NBC-vs.-ABC-vs.-CBS This concept of getting the right business definition and relevant competitive set is certainly not new , and it’s not limited to industries being disrupted by new technologies. Customers Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And with today’s technologies, companies now have the ability to see and act on these fluctuations in the moment. As a yogurt executive at General Mills noted, “The simplicity of this idea, that this is a French method, coming from a French brand, with a French name — that’s authenticity.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Combining deep expertise in both digital technology and industrial machines is not easy. Both fields require complex and sophisticated domain expertise, and are experiencing fast-paced innovation. Software development must be guided by the industrial machines’ purpose, potential and limitations—and vice versa.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” At most Fortune 1000 firms, executives who’d “walk out the door and come back in” fully recognize their status quo is both inadequate and unsustainable. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities. Delightful user experiences are delightful.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Just two World Cups ago, matches were won — and lost — by opportunistic passes and breakaway attacks that resulted in thundering goals; today, smart attacks consist of a multitude of passes, executed so quickly and by so many players that they take defenses apart.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Honda as a company had a strong entrepreneurial spirit that sprang from its namesake founder, Soichiro Honda, who restlessly experimented with new technologies and products, willing to take risks in order to grow his fledgling company. Everything was done seat of the pants and with minimal budget.

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