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How the Meaning of Digital Transformation Has Evolved

Harvard Business

Think back to 2007. In 2007, companies lacked a mobile strategy, let alone a mobile presence for engaging with their customers or for helping employees collaborate. So one would expect that today’s companies have a much better Digital IQ than they did way back in 2007, right? A young U.S. Apple released the first iPhone.

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

The capacity of HHI is superior to its competitors — a four-kilometer Ulsan shipyard with nine huge “Goliath Cranes,” 16,000 well-trained and experienced people in production, R&D, management, and administration, and the ability to manufacture any ship of any size with superb quality and the highest deadweight tonnage in the world.

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Is Tesla Really a Disruptor? (And Why the Answer Matters)

Harvard Business

billion to escape what Musk calls the “manufacturing hell” the company is now experiencing in its transition from small batch car making to mass production. Both companies were led by visionaries, both offer high-end versions of commodity products, and both enjoy fierce loyalty from customers.

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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business

Most innovation investments, such as product improvement, technological innovation, and research and development (R&D) traditionally aim at strengthening the innovation capacity of the organization. Nokia during 2007-2010 was an example of a corporation with great innovation capacity. ” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015.

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How Gatorade Invented New Products by Revisiting Old Ones

Harvard Business

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. What’s more, legacy products seem to be at a natural disadvantage.

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Research: When the Economy Is Good, Employers Demand Fewer Credentials

Harvard Business

Using a new database from Burning Glass Technologies containing 83 million online job postings between 2007 and 2014, across all U.S. For example, only 15% of physician assistant jobs required a Bachelor’s degree or higher in 2007. industries, we indeed found strong evidence of this upskilling. Adobe Dreamweaver) as well.

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Does It Pay to Hire Consultants? Evidence from the Bordeaux Wine Industry

Harvard Business

From 1963 to 2007, wines were made by Jean-Claude Berrouet, an in-house winemaker. When he retired, in 2007, his son Olivier took over as the in-house winemaker. And what I found was that on those years there had been a lot of sun and low production. We just want to make great products.” Very simple, very obvious.

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