The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

” The authors argue that many waterproof garments on the market today can be uncomfortable to wear for prolonged periods, not least due to their reduced breathability. It’s a problem they believe they’ve overcome.

Wireless 130

Wireless Technology Resistance Power 130

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 The growth in digital twins has been driven by technological improvements in areas such as the internet of things and wireless connectivity. “With 5G, you get fast upload speeds, up to 100Gbsp on many public networks.

Stephenson 114

Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 114

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 omnichannel approach to e-commerce gaining ground, there is a major need for distribution centers to be located near urban markets. Operation Costs Have to Be Reduced.

Transportation 50

Transportation Parcell Supply Chain Management 50

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.

Education 16

Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 16

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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Wireless Discount Budgeting 15

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.

Marketing 15

Marketing Wireless Survey Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

And everywhere you go in this gathering of the smartest people in the most exciting business category on the planet, there are marketing mistakes being made. The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. You don't make wireless Airplay speakers. Be bold, be shameless.

Marketing 15

Marketing Press Release Wireless Industry 15

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

Wireless 16

Wireless Health Care Pharmaceuticals Business Model 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself.

Innovation 13

Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 13

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.

Cost 10

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 10

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.

Wireless 15

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 15

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.

Innovation 11

Innovation Engineering Wireless Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Hiring and grooming local talent in key markets makes plenty of sense, but as IESE Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat explains in McKinsey Quarterly, firms that rely so heavily on localization that they no longer groom expatriates are being shortsighted. "And The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton).

Wireless 14

Wireless How To McKinsey Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. For example, AT&T had to spend almost $18 billion in a single year to upgrade its wireless networks to handle the onslaught of new traffic. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity.

Outsourcing 14

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. The record labels grumbled that Apple sucked the lion’s share of the profits out of the industry, but it was too late. for three years.

Industry 11

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 11

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.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. The visual, social, virtual, and mobile transformations that are already happening are creating a new golden era of technology-enabled innovation, and the CIO needs to be leading the charge.

CIO 10

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012. As unit economics enable ever cheaper smart phones (the lowest price in the market is now $65), their penetration will rise. Indian entrepreneurs are feeling bullish about global markets. This expansion isn't just domestic.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 17

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." Barriers to entry be damned.

Rogers 16

Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 16

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.”

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Definition Innovation Christensen 8

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.

Technology 11

Technology Wireless PR Innovation 11

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.

Marketing 8

Marketing Supply Chain Banking Wireless 8

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.

Strategy 10

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or “churn” in marketing parlance, often involves offering incentives such as discounts to individuals identified as likely to defect. Lost customers lead to untapped dollars.

Education 10

Education Execution Wireless Content 10

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

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.

Armstrong 9

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

These include: Vastly improved information systems: While electronic medical records are getting most of the media attention, the bigger breakthrough will be wireless and seamless information management of all facets of the hospital — medication, staff utilization and location, equipment availability, and more.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Health Care Transportation Wireless 15

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. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

Christensen 9

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Wireless 9

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

She proudly began to talk about how she had a prepaid wireless broadband card that allowed him to access education via the family mobile phone. There’s an important lesson in this for innovators seeking to create new growth among customer segments that don’t constitute the core of today’s markets: If you don’t go, you can’t know.

Wireless 8

Wireless Class Hotels Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While India remains a formidably challenging market, there are at least three reasons why global firms cannot overlook India without consequences. Similarly, when Renault entered India and introduced Kwid in 2015, Maruti and Hyundai had almost 70% of India’s large and fast-growing sub-compact car market.

Globalization 9

Globalization CAGR Class Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

The champions I’ve known have been motivated by a host of related factors – generating personal visibility, drawing attention and resources to their domain, or being perceived as innovators. The ask: invest $35 million for exclusive bundling rights to the US market. Entrepreneurship Innovation Sales'

Stephenson 10

Stephenson Due Diligence Finance Wireless 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Now it’s time for the law to play serious catch-up with a market that has continued moving quickly in unexpected directions.

Technology 10

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum.

Products 10

Products Productivity Company Engineering 10

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Marketing. With leading companies such as American Apparel, Bloomingdale’s, Verizon Wireless, Swatch, and London City Airport already onboard with location analytics, it will become commonplace in venues — especially for major brands — over the next several years and a major competitive gap for those that don’t adopt the practice.

Retail 11

Retail Customer Intimacy Apparel Wireless 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. consumers are just being introduced to Apple Pay, mobile money services like MPesa and MTN Money have been flourishing in African markets. But the possibilities for ecommerce and consumer marketing are enormous.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8