Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. ” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). Gary Harpst is the direct opposite.” Most importantly this book is about execution.”

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CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

One way to do this is to look for "break technologies.". If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. In the 1990's, cellular technology eliminated the usefulness of physical phone lines in the telephone value chain.

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Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Michael Porter would approve. ” In Porter’s view, sustainable competitive advantage depends on trade-offs, including the fact that it’s difficult for one company to serve all customers across a wide range of needs. Hastings is betting that Porter’s rules haven’t been repealed.

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Porter Company Retail Competitive Advantage 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Michael Porter and Jim Heppelman explain how augmented reality will change how we work.

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Porter Organization Strategy Video 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy? . However, even in dynamic, technology-driven industries like social media, moats remain a powerful force.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 11

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 1, 2012

Here are a few insights provided during an interview of John Donovan, the chief technology officer at AT&T since 2008, who learned a lot about the subtleties of team-building earlier [.].

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Chief Technology Officer Team Building Technology Execution 75

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Consider Porter's value chain. But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive. However, with the availability of cheaper more accessible information technologies, that's all changing. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Then last year Michael Porter returned to apply the five forces framework to the next phase of the digital economy – the internet of things. It’s still worth a look now.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

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Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

My current favorite example comes from Net-a-Porter reaching out to my wife. Of course, it’s part of Net-a-Porter’s larger UX but, in the moment, what’s perceived and experienced is a value-added touchpoint. Put the battery one on the gaming console, and the Red Bull one on the mini fridge.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

We have identified how hospitals’ budgeting systems have erected three distinct barriers to the adoption of technology. These barriers, however, can be overcome by changing how hospitals acquire new technology and by providing incentives to units to use digital innovations to provide more effective and efficient care.

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Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Who has the best technology? But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Instead, Porter urges a different kind of competition: compete to be unique. With Cyber Monday, the tablet wars kicked into full swing. Which one is the best? Is it the iPad? The Kindle?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

From 697 to 1797 AD, Venice’s technological acumen, geographic position, and unconventionality were interlocking advantages that allowed the Most Serene Republic to flourish. Moreover, its Arsenal was no longer at the cutting edge of naval technology. This age of exploration triggered the beginning of Venice’s decline.

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Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. Audi helped spearhead a technology solution to this problem, which will enable excess renewable energy to be captured, stored, and used in its production processes.

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Porter and Mark R. Porter and Kramer give a classic example of ecosystem-supporting philanthropy: a company contributes to help improve area schools, which would eventually improve the labor pool from which they hire staff. In The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy , Michael E.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem. Again, Porter’s models frequently help in getting a perspective clearer.

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Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

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Consultative Porter Management Press Release 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In early 1990s, most new African banks used information technology as a SWATS tool to break the monopolies established during the colonial era. Eventually, some incumbents adapted and invested in technology as well. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology. They secured their flanks.

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Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

For $200 a month and in less than a year, students can receive online training that prepares them for immediate entry into technology jobs. Like Mr. Porter, I believe that education needs to be tied to real-life work experiences — especially if it is going to give low-income students a leg up.

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Skills Porter Education Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

That same year, in an article entitled “Computer Graphics for Decision Making,” IBM engineer Irvin Miller introduced HBR’s readers to a potent new computing technology that was part of the 360 — the interactive graphical display terminal. Technology' Intuition-support is, in fact, the point for Miller.

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Porter Price Technology Constraint 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success. trillion by 2020.

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Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. We are living in a time of amazing technologies, but that’s arguably been true of every period since the industrial revolution. The macro numbers tell a very different story. Just look at what’s happened to workers.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. How Netflix Reinvented HR.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 21

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And And finally, focusing on current relative positions discounts the importance of technological changewhich, over time, will make online models more competitive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The moment I loved most was during the Q&A when an older gentleman asked Jobs a challenging question about the mouse as user interface technology: did it really compare favorably to the traditional keystroke approach? I remember helping Mike Porter with his terrific 1996 HBR article What Is Strategy?

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First-mover Advantage Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. This photograph from the period, O home e o neno , shows a man and his son crying as some of their dearest relatives board the boat to Buenos Aires.

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

What’s different now is the volume of the data, the availability of efficient sensor technologies, and the prospect of application in every walk of life. Information & technology Internet' Sound familiar? The Internet of Things may already feel like an overused buzzword, but the value is real.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value.

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Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ). The authors are senior leaders at FSG, a global social impact strategy firm co-founded by Mr. Kramer and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do." Of course, modern technology businesses have some other unique strategic characteristics.

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Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

As Apple, Warby Parker, Net a Porter, and Shinola all know: Cool is perhaps the crucial factor in the success of new products. In short, technology hasn’t liberated people. Customers Branding Technology Technology' Google Glass’s failure was a story of a visionary product utterly failing to be cool.

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Fashion Advertorial Porter Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2012

But the ways some companies and technologies are aiding in the process gives me a glimmer of hope. Hassle-Free Gift Returns (Consumer Reports). I have a habit of refusing to return unwanted or duplicate gifts because of the hassle (and/or I'm lazy). Stuck in the '50s (Slate).

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