Innovation Excellence

MAY 27, 2017

Thankfully, advances in technology and the Internet have made it easier than ever to save. It’s safe to say that growing your business takes more than time and passion; it also requires a sizeable amount of capital to get it going. This can get pretty expensive, especially if you’re planning to move into a new country.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I was a panelist on a session on Reverse Innovation during the recently concluded World Economic Forum at Davos. The conventional wisdom is that innovations originate in rich countries and the resulting products are sold horizontally in other developed countries and then sent downhill to developing countries. Not really.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2011

Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World’s Fastest Growing Economies for Global Advantage Anil K.

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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. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms? For much of the 1980s and 1990s, many parts of the startup ecosystem focused on communications, technology, and health care. And companies like Google, Apple, and even telecommunications titans are eying the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Moreover, it forgot that it will continue to do well in China and India not just by keeping costs low but also by developing new technologies.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The problem, the court said, was that the FCC’s bans on blocking or discriminating against certain Internet traffic sounded like the kind of rules that would apply to a “telecommunications service,” yet the FCC has classified broadband internet as an “information service.” It’s been a great decade to be a telecommunications lawyer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

This infrastructure sits on top of a publicly available substructure of assets and resources — telecommunications and the Internet, for example. It embodies the long tail realities of major business and technology decisions, resulting in an IT department struggling to manage multiple costly and incompatible infrastructures.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. To get the most out of social technologies, known collectively as Enterprise 2.0,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. Google uses a different approach to working with multiple external parties.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Apple is certainly known for its strong preference for internal innovation. There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios. Is that fair?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. Nevertheless, we steadfastly supported the venture.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Important as the technology and expertise may be, we find that most companies should focus first on high-quality data, process, people, and culture. As a data-driven culture permeates more broadly, an enterprise's abilities to take bold, innovative, concerted action on increasingly larger challenges also grow. So where to begin?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

One software design firm we studied had a long-time partner that was trying to figure out how to hire and develop an "in house" group to manage network and technology hardware issues. But how often is this qualitative feedback seen as a sturdy platform for innovation and growth? Re-frame customer objections as new businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. Enter Henry Ford, who revolutionized the industry with his manufacturing innovations , lowering the price of cars from $2,000 in 1908 to just $260 by 1925 — an 87% reduction! But the most innovative Indian hospitals are doing much more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

based telecoms, technology companies and internet platforms such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo and even Dropbox. based technology companies is at stake here, as is the future of U.S./EU The utter disrespect with which U.S. government, or U.S.-based the Patriot Act , FISA courts , etc). no power, and no rights.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the case of an Asian telecommunications company that found 20 percent of its marketing budget was being squandered in markets with the lowest lifetime customer value. Create a technology engine that powers the front lines. But for all the potential technology provides, it’s important not to lose sight of what the point is.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Although well-intentioned, these programs often have the unintended consequences of benefiting the wrong businesses, favoring sub-optimal technology, and creating market distortion. Picture something like a rotational program for innovation. They do not decrease the cost to the entrepreneur if his venture fails.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2020

An ambitious new law is catalyzing innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. How can you build your organization’s ability to sense and respond to rapid improvements in technology?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

The technology community has become accustomed to Musk pushing the boundaries. The gap between Hyperloop and the state of infrastructure in the vast majority of developing countries is a demonstration of what economist William Janeway calls the Two Innovation Economies. There are exceptions, of course, like mobile technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

So the question is really whether the current, mostly hands-off regulatory regime for broadband has led to faster growth and more investment than if Powell, as chairman of the FCC, hadn’t decided in 2002 to classify cable broadband as a lightly regulated “information service” instead of a common-carrier “telecommunications service.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. One of us, Arvind Gupta, is head of technology for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party, and has been for the past seven years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In Mexico, in the innovative sectors that entrepreneurs usually enter — mobile technology, branchless banking, housing for rural or semi-urban areas, basic services such as water, telecommunications, education, etc. — there is either a lack of "roads" or lack of access to them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century.

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