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White Papers
Opportunities In Alternative Energy
Nov 2009
In an event held at Columbia Business School, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates spoke on opportunities in alternative energy. Gates identified energy - including renewable sources, like solar -...
Provided by Columbia University
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Finding And Grooming Breakthrough Innovators
Jan 2009
Just 5% - 10% of your high-potential managers have the skills to become breakthrough innovators. If you don't find and groom these rarities, some other company will mastermind the next big thing....
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Imitation Is More Valuable Than Innovation
Mar 2010
Imitation is underappreciated. It can be more important to business growth than innovation is. Imitation is not mindless repetition; It's and intelligent search for cause and effect. The author...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Off Season Training
Jun 2009
Running a seasonal business may seem like an entrepreneur's dream: Work hard for part of the year and earn enough for the whole of it. But running a seasonal business, just like any other kind, is...
Provided by Bank of America
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Investing To Sustain High Performance Examining The Two Sides Of The Innovation Coin
Feb 2009
With an uncertain economy, now is the time to examine both sides of the innovation coin. Whether your organization selects heads for cost efficiencies, tails for customer retention and acquisition...
Provided by Accenture
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An Innovative And Market Tested Approach To Migrating To An IP-Based Intelligent Network Environment
Nov 2009
Intelligent networks are critical to the cost-effective provisioning of network services by today's global communications operators. The Intelligent Network (IN) is a service-independent...
Provided by Accenture
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Prize-Winning Thinking
Dec 2009
In the midst of a struggling economy, a disturbing flu pandemic, and an ongoing national debate over health insurance reform, most small business owners can be forgiven if they didn't pay much...
Provided by Bank of America
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Marketing Malpractice: The Cause And The Cure
Mar 2007
Thirty thousand new consumer products hit store shelves each year. Ninety percent of them fail. Why? We're using misguided market-segmentation practices. For instance, we slice markets based on...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Strategic Parts Pricing For Original Equipment Manufacturers
Jan 2010
Reduced capital spending and tight money conditions have created a difficult business environment for original equipment manufacturers. Facing a dramatic drop in demand, many Original Equipment...
Provided by Accenture
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Strategic Competition in Social Entrepreneurship
Dec 2008
This post on the challenges facing social entrepreneurship is drawn from remarks made on October. 23, 2008 at "Leadership for the 21st Century," an interactive training session held at the U.S....
Provided by Columbia University
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Managing New Product Development And Innovation In Challenging Times Driving High Performance Through Profitable Innovation
Mar 2009
During challenging economic times, communications and high-tech companies may be tempted to scale back on product development. Yet such a decision risks cutting off the lifeblood of innovation...
Provided by Accenture
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Driving Growth And Innovation In China?s Telecommunications Marketplace
Nov 2009
Customer-centricity is critical to achieving high performance for today's communications, high-tech and media companies. Organizations now must compete more than ever on how well they understand...
Provided by Accenture
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Small Business Innovation
Dec 2009
In order for Small Businesses to compete in the Global Competitive Business Marketplace, Innovation is imperative. One factor affecting Innovation is Pressure. Pressure from the Competition urges...
Provided by ABC Business Consulting
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The New Wave Of Growth And Innovation: The Communications Industry Retools Itself For High Performance
Feb 2010
The tide is turning. A sense of cautious optimism is now increasingly being expressed by communications industry executives. The past couple of years have been tough, to say the least. And the...
Provided by Accenture
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Product Development Mastery Achieving High Performance In Product Development Through Superior Innovation And Execution
Sep 2009
Beyond excelling at the basics, masters in product development leverage the broader ecosystem (suppliers, academia, customers and partners) for product innovation, and optimize their global...
Provided by Accenture
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Strategic Parts Pricing: Insights And Innovations For Original Equipment Manufacturers For High Performance
Jan 2010
Reduced capital spending and tight money conditions have created a difficult business environment for original equipment manufacturers. The objective of this Accenture point of view is to...
Provided by Accenture
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Enhancing The Open Model Through The Use Of Community
Aug 2009
Often firms are unsure of where to start when it comes to creating an open innovation community, particularly when it comes to determining the amount of time and resources to invest. However,...
Provided by Decision Analyst
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The Innovator's Guide To Growth
May 2008
Trees don't grow to the sky forever." With that sentence, the CEO of a multibillion dollar media company urged a cross-functional group of senior managers to develop innovative ideas. It was 2005....
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
12 Essential Characteristics Of An Entrepreneur
Aug 2008
An entrepreneur is a businessperson who not only conceives and organizes ventures but also frequently takes risks in doing so. Not all independent business people are true entrepreneurs, and not...
Provided by ActionCOACH
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White Papers
Smartphones and Emerging Markets: A New Technology Revolution?
Jun 2009
It is no secret that the mobile phone industry is thriving in emerging markets, and that this growth has helped make cell phones the fastest spreading technology in human history. Less known, but...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Investing In The IT That Makes A Competitive Difference
Jun 2008
It's not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Since the midl990s, competition in the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. The engine behind this hyper...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Creating And Measuring The WOM-Worthiness Of New Products: A Case Study
Aug 2007
Most Word-Of-Mouth (WOM) marketers would agree that having a great product is a major key to the success of a word-of-mouth campaign. However, coming up with and developing great product ideas...
Provided by Decision Analyst
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White Papers
The Basics Of Packaging Research
Nov 2007
The market is changing, and the time has come to redesign the package of that old established brand. This will revitalize the brand, the marketing manager supposes. Or, a new product with great...
Provided by Decision Analyst
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White Papers
Breaking Out Of The Innovation Box
May 2007
In the late-1990s economic boom, corporations embarked on an innovation binge - enthusiastically transforming hot ideas and technologies into commercial opportunities. But when the economy cooled,...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Does AMD Spur Intel To Innovate More?
Jul 2009
The authors of this paper estimate a model of dynamic oligopoly with durable goods and endogenous innovation to examine the effect of competition on innovation in the PC microprocessor industry....
Provided by Columbia University
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Case Studies
How Technology Innovation Can Transform Physical Assets Into Value-Added Services
Feb 2009
One of world's leading manufacturers of industrial equipment was facing trouble in managing its sprawling product line due to critical lack of visibility through the product line. Even getting...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Making Innovation Work In Telecom
May 2010
The decline in print directories due to the growth of online options led a company to lose many of its local advertisers. To counter this, it decided to launch an innovative performance-based...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
What Being In Business Really Means
Mar 2008
Ever thought you'd like to be in business? Lots of people do! Many of these same people perceive that being in business really means 1) making the big bucks; 2) working fewer hours; 3) building up...
Provided by Planned Growth Business Development Solutions
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White Papers
Innovation: Target Practice
Dec 2008
Consumer product innovation is often a hit-or-miss affair - but it doesn't have to be. By letting customers and employees tell them what works and by aggressively culling what doesn't, the...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?
Nov 2007
Incremental innovations (small, safe changes to your firm's offerings) make up 8596-90% of companies' development portfolios. But "little i" projects rarely produce competitive advantage. For...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Teaming Up To Crack Innovation And Enterprise Integration
Aug 2009
Your company is continuously creating new generations of products, services, and business processes. These innovations require seamless collaboration across your firm's different parts. But in...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
The Prescription For Research & Development: Can Lean Six Sigma Revitalize Pharmaceutical Innovation For High Performance?
Sep 2009
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is derived from two workflow methodologies, Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, that began in manufacturing and have expanded to many other nonmanufacturing industries. Lean...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Pole Positioning
Jan 2009
The high performers in this industry are exceptionally lean and customer-centric enterprises. It boasts some of the great global brands, and the influence of its innovations is felt worldwide....
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Staying Ahead Of The "Redshift" Curve: Lean Enterprises Rely On Speed And Flexibility In Changing Markets
Feb 2009
The Accenture Process & Innovation Performance service line takes an end-to-end, process-based approach to address key business challenges such as complexity reduction, lean manufacturing and...
Provided by Accenture
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Case Studies
From Ice Cream Van To Dragon's Den - Duncan Bannatyne
Dec 2008
Every year thousands of entrepreneurs decide to set up their own business, anticipating great financial rewards. However, over half of new business start-ups fail in their first year. So what...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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White Papers
Business Clusters And Government Policy: How Labor Re-organizes Itself
Jan 2010
At a time when employment concerns are high from the financial crisis fall-out, entrepreneurship seems a logical focus. Can government control anything about how this manifests with stimulus...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
How Active Collaboration Affects Innovation Adoption By Weaker And Stronger Firms
Jul 2009
Existing research fails to explain why firms with weaker capabilities sometimes reach innovation adoption levels similar to those of their stronger competitors, even for competence enhancing...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Can Institutional Forces Create Competitive Advantage? An Empirical Examination Of Environmental Innovation
Nov 2007
This paper examines institutional pressures as antecedents of environmental innovation. Drawing on institutional theory and a resourced-based view of the company, this paper puts forth an argument...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Spillover Asymmetry And Why It Matters
Apr 2008
While spillovers are a crucial factor in determining the optimal environment for innovation, there is no consensus regarding their impact on firm behavior. One reason for this may be that models...
Provided by Washington University Olin
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White Papers
Innovation And Performance Of European Banks Adopting Internet
Mar 2010
Ebanking has been a bit of a fad. Virtual banks were believed to challenge traditional banks. The burst of the internet bubble brought down this first generation of internet banks. Traditional...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Webcasts
Relentless Pursuit Of Innovation
Feb 2011
In this webcast, the presenter shares insights from her career in biotechnology and academia on leading teams, managing risks against rewards, and innovative product development. The presenter...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
The Power Of Curiosity And Inspiration
Feb 2011
In this webcast, the presenter is an entrepreneur driven by an innate curiosity to create amazing products and services. In this insightful lecture, the presenter describes his early background...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Live For The Future And Survive Success
Feb 2011
In this webcast, the presenter guides the company's continuing efforts to successfully deliver innovative medical technologies to market. In this webcast, the presenter shares entrepreneurial...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
A Devotion To New Ideas
Feb 2011
The presenter thrives on turning innovative ideas into pioneering companies. The presenter serves as founder and CEO of Idealab, which started over 75 companies since 1996. In this webcast, the...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
How To Build Instant Connections
Apr 2011
In this webcast, the presenter explores subtle drivers that can help you spark immediate work, life, and romantic connections. Based on insights from the presenter's latest book, Click: The Magic...
Provided by Stanford University
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Webcasts
Innovate For America
May 2011
The presenter focuses on advancing technology and innovation to unlock national economic growth and prosperity. In this webcast, the presenter challenges students and entrepreneurs to take action...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Small Business Endpoint Protection Performance Benchmarks - July 2011
Jul 2011
New independent research from performance testing company, PassMark, ranked Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition #1 in overall performance. Test results show that Symantec's small...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Microinsurance Innovations In Rural Finance
Jul 2010
Poor people in developing countries are vulnerable to a broad range of shocks that affect their livelihoods, including illness, accidents, and death as well as loss of assets such as animals,...
Provided by International Food Policy Research Institute
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White Papers
Innovating Development Finance - From Financing Sources To Financial Solutions
Nov 2009
As early as 2000, development partners embarked on a decade-long search for "Innovative" or alternative sources of Official Development Assistance to help finance achievement of the Millennium...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Should you invest in GRC Tools?
Aug 2011
An organization's GRC strategy is only as good as the tools used to implement it. Home grown GRC tools, perceived by many as a quick fix to undertake complex compliance requirements, often fail to...
Provided by ANXeBusiness Corp
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Webcasts
eSolar, Aptera And Keeping The Money Flowing To Cleantech
Mar 2009
In this economy, money is probably the single biggest worry for any company; whether you're a multi-billion-dollar financial institution or a garage-based cleantech startup, keeping the lights on...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Case Studies
Regional Leader Spearheads Innovation Excellence And Diversity
May 2009
Since its flotation in the mid-nineties, the client has maintained a leadership position in the fixed line, mobile, Internet and data transfer markets in its country in Eastern Europe. As a...
Provided by Capgemini
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Case Studies
Apec Innovates In Challenging Times
Jul 2011
Apec (Management Jobs Association) was founded in 1966 to promote openness and efficiency in the management jobs market in France and is now the leading organization in its field. It has 46...
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
Greener By Design: Meet The Designers
Jan 2011
In this webcast, the presenter sat down with designers from four innovative firms to talk about how green design has changed their jobs, their interactions with clients, and what the future of...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Greener By Design Highlights
Jan 2011
Whether it's the leader of Nike's considered products explaining how their designers make green ideas happen, young innovators discussing the ways to build a green product from the ground up, or...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Greener By Design: Transformations
Feb 2009
In this final highlight webcast from the green design conference; sustainability leaders from three large and innovative companies discuss the ways thinking green has transformed their products.
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Greener By Design 2009: The New Drivers
Jun 2009
What's driving your company to pursue green product design? It might be customers, but it could be others, from retailers to regulations, standards to stockholders. In this webcast, learn from...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Greener By Design 2009: The New Metrics Of Design
Jun 2009
Today, the challenge of marketplace success hinges less on what you can say, but on what you can prove. Toward that end, companies are developing sophisticated metrics - for both themselves and...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
State Of The Great Lakes Green Economy
Mar 2010
How can the Great Lakes region seize the opportunities of the growing green economy? This webcast discusses about the efforts being undertaken to attract manufacturers and entrepreneurs to the...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Innovisionaries In conversation: Janine Benyus And John Warner
Oct 2010
From the World Wide Web to the web of life: The presenters would discuss their paradigm-shifting disciplines, including their key challenges and opportunities for sustainable innovation.
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Experiencing Innovation: Tom Wujec
Oct 2010
In this webcast,the presenters conducts "The Marshmallow Challenge," a fun, hands-on design exercise that encourages teams to experience simple but profound lessons in collaboration, innovation...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
How Innovation Happens: Consumer Products
Oct 2010
The presenter in conversation with Procter & Gamble's sustainability and innovation leaders, Len Sauers and Stephen Meller, on the consumer product giant's quest for sustainable products, from the...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Innovation At The Base Of The Pyramid
Oct 2010
In this webcast, the presenters discusses about how companies are creating new products and business models for - and learning from - emerging economies, from the 2010 GreenBiz Innovation Forum.
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
The Power Of Disruptive Upstarts
Oct 2010
In this webcast, the presenter leads a discussion with two venture capitalists and an innovative upstart on what it takes to succeed - and how big companies are looking outside their walls to...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Innovisionary: Tim O'Reilly
Oct 2010
The father of Web 2.0 talks about the imperative to innovate, the parallels of the current state of sustainability to the Web movement, and how open innovation and transparency will be key drivers...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
One Great Idea: Tools & Open Innovation Solutions For Sustainable Product Innovation - Lorrie Vogel
Feb 2011
Nike has embarked on a journey in recent years to identify and develop tools that place the power in the hands of those making sustainable choices within the company. The result has been...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
One Great Idea: Growing Your Own Packaging - Eben Bayer
Feb 2011
Environmentally benign substitutes for plastic packaging have been expensive or ineffective. But one company has found an innovative solution by growing packaging made from mushroom roots and...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
How A Futuristic Environmental Design Idea Became A Reality - Jim Kor
Mar 2011
What vehicle architecture is most appropriate for global markets in the 21st century? This webcast discusses how one great idea for an idealistic car is becoming a commercialized reality that...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Introducing VERGE
Jun 2011
There is a coming convergence of four technology platforms: Vehicles, Information, Buildings and Energy. VERGE will fundamentally transform cities, companies, communities, and households. Its...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Mike Barry: What's In Store For VERGE
Jun 2011
In this webcast, Marks & Spencer's chief sustainability officer talks about the opportunities and challenges of bringing together technologies and people in the name of sustainability, and the...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Rodrigo Prudencio: The Open Electron: Why Energy Connectivity Matters
Jun 2011
The presenter provides insights into how the world of energy is transforming - into what the presenter calls "The open electron" - and the implications for the convergence of energy, information,...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Stephan Dolezalek: "We Know How This Movie Ends. We Just Don't Know The Plot."
Jun 2011
In this webcast, the presenter discusses about the VERGE 11 San Francisco Roundtable with an overview of how the convergence of VERGE technologies mirrors - and is different from - the Internet...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Don Reed: The Road From Here To VERGE
Jun 2011
In this webcast, the presenter explains how the convergence of technologies demands that companies adopt new strategies and programs to capitalize on the new opportunities for innovation, from the...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Innovation As A Green Strategy
Mar 2009
In this webcast, the presenters discusses how companies are harnessing environmental thinking to create new products, services, and sources of business value.
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Greener By Design 2009: Innovation Matters
May 2009
At its core, green product design is less about "Greening up" than rethinking product design, manufacturing, and delivery systems. In this webcast, the presenters discuss how to integrate...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
One Great Idea: Creative Sourcing For Green Innovation - Alexis Ringwald
Feb 2011
In this webcast, the presenter discusses how social media, youth, and new forms of entrepreneurship are revolutionizing the way companies source innovations in cleantech, climate and sustainability.
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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White Papers
Gearing Up for Rapid Telecom Innovation with Flexible Billing and Services
Jul 2011
Today, communications service providers (CSPs) face a business environment that is radically different from the business environment of five years ago.
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Strategies for Evolving into a Multisided Business
Jul 2011
Discover how telecom companies like yours can take advantage of profitable new multisided business models that require changes in how you collaborate with partners, price offerings, and service...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers - Video
SAP Portfolio and Project Management Rapid-Deployment Solution for Portfolio Monitoring
Jul 2011
See how this rapid-deployment solution brings together software and services to help you prioritize projects and run them more effectively through preconfigured software that supports project and...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Out Of Equilibrium Profit And Innovation
Dec 2008
Innovation is the result of intentional decision-making that takes place in out-of-equilibrium conditions. The farther is profitability from the average and the deeper the out-of-equilibrium...
Provided by Universita degli Studi di Torino
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White Papers
12 Essential Characteristics Of An Entrepreneur
Aug 2008
An entrepreneur is a businessperson who not only conceives and organizes ventures but also frequently takes risks in doing so. Not all independent business people are true entrepreneurs, and not...
Provided by ActionCOACH
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White Papers
Smartphones and Emerging Markets: A New Technology Revolution?
Jun 2009
It is no secret that the mobile phone industry is thriving in emerging markets, and that this growth has helped make cell phones the fastest spreading technology in human history. Less known, but...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Investing In The IT That Makes A Competitive Difference
Jun 2008
It's not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Since the midl990s, competition in the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. The engine behind this hyper...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Creating And Measuring The WOM-Worthiness Of New Products: A Case Study
Aug 2007
Most Word-Of-Mouth (WOM) marketers would agree that having a great product is a major key to the success of a word-of-mouth campaign. However, coming up with and developing great product ideas...
Provided by Decision Analyst
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White Papers
The Basics Of Packaging Research
Nov 2007
The market is changing, and the time has come to redesign the package of that old established brand. This will revitalize the brand, the marketing manager supposes. Or, a new product with great...
Provided by Decision Analyst
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White Papers
Breaking Out Of The Innovation Box
May 2007
In the late-1990s economic boom, corporations embarked on an innovation binge - enthusiastically transforming hot ideas and technologies into commercial opportunities. But when the economy cooled,...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Does AMD Spur Intel To Innovate More?
Jul 2009
The authors of this paper estimate a model of dynamic oligopoly with durable goods and endogenous innovation to examine the effect of competition on innovation in the PC microprocessor industry....
Provided by Columbia University
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Case Studies
How Technology Innovation Can Transform Physical Assets Into Value-Added Services
Feb 2009
One of world's leading manufacturers of industrial equipment was facing trouble in managing its sprawling product line due to critical lack of visibility through the product line. Even getting...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Making Innovation Work In Telecom
May 2010
The decline in print directories due to the growth of online options led a company to lose many of its local advertisers. To counter this, it decided to launch an innovative performance-based...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
What Being In Business Really Means
Mar 2008
Ever thought you'd like to be in business? Lots of people do! Many of these same people perceive that being in business really means 1) making the big bucks; 2) working fewer hours; 3) building up...
Provided by Planned Growth Business Development Solutions
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White Papers
Innovation: Target Practice
Dec 2008
Consumer product innovation is often a hit-or-miss affair - but it doesn't have to be. By letting customers and employees tell them what works and by aggressively culling what doesn't, the...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?
Nov 2007
Incremental innovations (small, safe changes to your firm's offerings) make up 8596-90% of companies' development portfolios. But "little i" projects rarely produce competitive advantage. For...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Teaming Up To Crack Innovation And Enterprise Integration
Aug 2009
Your company is continuously creating new generations of products, services, and business processes. These innovations require seamless collaboration across your firm's different parts. But in...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
The Prescription For Research & Development: Can Lean Six Sigma Revitalize Pharmaceutical Innovation For High Performance?
Sep 2009
Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is derived from two workflow methodologies, Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma, that began in manufacturing and have expanded to many other nonmanufacturing industries. Lean...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Pole Positioning
Jan 2009
The high performers in this industry are exceptionally lean and customer-centric enterprises. It boasts some of the great global brands, and the influence of its innovations is felt worldwide....
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Staying Ahead Of The "Redshift" Curve: Lean Enterprises Rely On Speed And Flexibility In Changing Markets
Feb 2009
The Accenture Process & Innovation Performance service line takes an end-to-end, process-based approach to address key business challenges such as complexity reduction, lean manufacturing and...
Provided by Accenture
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Case Studies
From Ice Cream Van To Dragon's Den - Duncan Bannatyne
Dec 2008
Every year thousands of entrepreneurs decide to set up their own business, anticipating great financial rewards. However, over half of new business start-ups fail in their first year. So what...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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White Papers
Business Clusters And Government Policy: How Labor Re-organizes Itself
Jan 2010
At a time when employment concerns are high from the financial crisis fall-out, entrepreneurship seems a logical focus. Can government control anything about how this manifests with stimulus...
Provided by Southern Methodist University
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White Papers
How Active Collaboration Affects Innovation Adoption By Weaker And Stronger Firms
Jul 2009
Existing research fails to explain why firms with weaker capabilities sometimes reach innovation adoption levels similar to those of their stronger competitors, even for competence enhancing...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Can Institutional Forces Create Competitive Advantage? An Empirical Examination Of Environmental Innovation
Nov 2007
This paper examines institutional pressures as antecedents of environmental innovation. Drawing on institutional theory and a resourced-based view of the company, this paper puts forth an argument...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Spillover Asymmetry And Why It Matters
Apr 2008
While spillovers are a crucial factor in determining the optimal environment for innovation, there is no consensus regarding their impact on firm behavior. One reason for this may be that models...
Provided by Washington University Olin
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White Papers
Innovation And Performance Of European Banks Adopting Internet
Mar 2010
Ebanking has been a bit of a fad. Virtual banks were believed to challenge traditional banks. The burst of the internet bubble brought down this first generation of internet banks. Traditional...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Do National Patent Laws Stimulate Domestic Innovation In A Global Patenting Environment?
Jul 2007
This paper evaluates the effects of patent protection on pharmaceutical innovations for 26 countries that established pharmaceutical patent laws during 1978 - 2002. Controlling for country...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Innovative Conduct In Computing And Internet Markets
Oct 2009
How has innovative and competitive behavior in computing and internet markets evolved over the past half century? This paper discusses these questions in light of six topics: the limited role for...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
New Equipment Enhances Accenture Information Technology Management Lab
Oct 2009
Among improvements is increased network capability. Along the perimeter of the classroom, assistant professor John D'Arcy can set up four networks, each with five personal computers and a server....
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
IT Management Lab Gets New Microsoft Surface Unit: Hands-On Computer Aids In Group Projects
Aug 2009
A new computer at the Mendoza College of Business brings a fresh meaning to the phrase "hands-on learning." The Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch computer that responds via infrared cameras and...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
Keeping The Founders' Spirit Alive
Jan 2009
According to the economist Joseph Schumpeter, the entrepreneurial spirit is a process of constant reinvention through innovation. Entrepreneurship has also been described as the art of creating...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
CSR Managers In Front Of The Mirror
Jan 2008
According to the European Commission, "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Innovative Companies Rethink Pricing Metrics
Oct 2008
When General Electric entered the jet engine market, the Ohio-based company took an innovative approach to pricing policy. Instead of selling jet engines for a one-time fixed cost, GE decided to...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Think Like An Entrepreneur For Corporate Success
Apr 2009
Corporate leaders looking for guidance in the prolonged economic crisis should check their rearview mirrors for fast-approaching global entrepreneurs, Thunderbird Professor Robert Hisrich, Ph.D.,...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Book Bonus: Selecting The Right Foreign Market
Apr 2009
With so many prospective countries available for expansion, one critical issue for the global entrepreneur is foreign market selection. Thunderbird Professor Robert D. Hisrich, Ph.D., shares a...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Success Comes As 'unintended' Result For Entrepreneur Of The Year
Jun 2009
Success has come as an unintended side effect for Trevor Stansbury, Thunderbird's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year and a 1992 graduate of the business school in Glendale, Ariz. Supply Dynamics helps...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Whitepapers
Sustainable energy innovation at the base of the economic pyramid
Apr 2010
Dickinson noted that in Asia the innovation is coming from within the region. "I don't think the developed world has a lot to offer the base of the pyramid in terms of products," he noted. "In...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Can´t Compete With Costs? Use Culture Instead
Jan 2008
Competing in quality and innovation is the strategy of the future for industries affected by outsourcing and growing competition from surrounding countries, says IESE Prof. Xavier Vives in his...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Do Innovations Really Payoff? Total Stock Market Returns To Innovation
Mar 2008
Critics often decry an earnings-focused short-term orientation of management that eschews spending on risky, long term projects such as innovation in order to boost a firm's stock price. The...
Provided by Emory University (Goizueta)
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Innovation Does Pay Off: If You Measure Correctly
Jul 2009
Innovation is probably one of the most important forces fueling the growth of new products, sustaining incumbents, creating new markets, transforming industries, and promoting the global...
Provided by Emory University (Goizueta)
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Business Evolution In China
Oct 2009
Extensive study on industry evolution has produced fairly set models on the ways in which technical innovation drives success and determines winners and losers in the market. A few large,...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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And In This Corner, Google
Jul 2009
Google fired another salvo in its ongoing battle with Microsoft recently when it announced plans to offer an operating system based on its Chrome software. The two giants already face off in the...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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New Game Strategies To Create And Capture Value
Jun 2009
In his book Strategic Innovation (Routledge, 2009), professor Allan Afuah demonstrates the value of "New game" strategies in the face of rapid technological change and increasing globalization....
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Mixed Backgrounds Improve Organizational Innovation, Creativity
Jun 2008
Like Barack Obama and millions of Americans, Ross School professor Fiona Lee comes from a mixed cultural background. She is an Asian American who was born in Europe, grew up in Hong Kong and...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
