Seth Godin Blog

MAY 22, 2018

The existence of your product, service or innovation means that everything that compares to it is now treated differently. Of course, these are once-in-a-lifetime tech innovations. It changes our narrative. Once the fax existed, mail seemed slower. Once email was around, the fax seemed hopelessly analog.    

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Harvard Business

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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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Walker and Walker/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. But as with so many aspects of American economic ingenuity, high-tech startups have now truly gone global. Jakal Pan/Getty Images. ecosystems, such as Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York. A number of U.S.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The CEO overseeing Adidas's flourishing is Kasper Rørsted, a man who spent the first half of his career in the tech industry. Think high-profile consumer goods, and sports apparel comes quickly to mind. For the last few years, the world's fastest-growing major sports apparel enterprise has been Adidas.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

Based on a recent study by Global Industry Analysts , the global market for wearable medical devices is projected to eclipse $4.5 billion by 2020. 1 In the United States, the predominant market in this space, it is estimated that roughly 20% of Americans currently own a wearable fitness device. Potential Benefits.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2018

Currently engineers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and educators are working to create innovative ways to apply these immersive technologies in order to transform clinical teaching and practice. As far-fetched as these scenarios may seem, they are closer to reality than you might think. Medical Student and Resident Training.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

might lag behind in the race for AI technology for three reasons: AI remains off the high-level national agenda; there has been a reduction in national funding for science and technology; and strong regulations add barriers to innovation. The rise of AI has been compared to the Cold War space race. Pundits argue the U.S. How will that work?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm.

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Cheryl Cran

MARCH 19, 2018

The future of work needs teams with highly developed future ready skills – teams with these skills will be able to innovate at the speed of change as well as create real time solutions needed for customer and employee happiness. We are already seeing this with carebots, cobots and talk directed assistants such as Alexa, Siri and more.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

Help to increase tech literacy in Washington. This lack of knowledge — despite the millions of dollars that the tech industry spent on lobbying Washington in 2017 — shows that technology literacy among lawmakers still needs to be improved. Digital Service , and the Presidential Innovation Fellows.

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Confessions of a Consultant

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

We’ve been oversold on ‘tech’ so many times that it’s hard not to be skeptical. We all need to demonstrate curiosity and embrace innovation as a personal mission – rather than a corporate slogan. Technology Denier: I’ve always been a bit of an Ostrich around technology. Do a horizon scan. And it takes time to figure that out.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. “Maybe what you think is the best idea you’ve ever had actually isn’t.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2018

In my experience, startup and technical business leaders don’t tell their innovation stories well. From my vantage point at MaRS , the Toronto-based start-up innovation hub, I have the opportunity to meet, interview, and write about some of the remarkable people and discoveries emerging from Canadian institutes and startups.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The debate about superstar firms and superstar effects has been intensifying, partly in response to the rapid growth of global US tech companies. Contrary to popular perception, these superstar firms are not just Silicon Valley tech giants. and Chinese tech firms. Apexphotos/Getty Images. Wider dynamics may be at play.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Broadly, the cost of electric batteries has plummeted 80% in just six years , due to innovation and enormous investments in production capacity, largely in China. Last year Tesla announced it would produce an electric long-haul big rig. PepsiCo , Walmart , and UPS promptly committed to buying a few hundred. FedEx got there early in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

“Embrace cyborgs,” she calls out, as she clicks to a slide that raises eyebrows even in this tech-smitten crowd. Ming is a tech optimist, believing that all kinds of previously intractable problems will be able to be solved as the tool kit for addressing them is developed. Antonio Iacobelli/Getty Images. “ Really.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2018

To focus on businesses that are closer in spirit to the prototypical high-tech startup, we used a variety of indicators: whether the firm was granted a patent, received VC investment, or operated in an industry that employs a high fraction of STEM workers. It’s widely believed that the most successful entrepreneurs are young.

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Cheryl Cran

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Innovation and creativity are key future of work collateral AND you need a plan to create the future. Many tech start ups use storyboarding and design thinking to generate customer oriented innovations – the process is to walk through a planned product or service as a customer.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

As the Wall Street Journal noted, median compensation at many high-tech companies was astounding — $240,000 at Facebook, for example, and $253,000 at a biotech firm called Incyte. Earlier this spring, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos released his annual letter to shareholders. Even as I make it, part of me worries this critique is unfair.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The traditional drivers of brand premium are being joined (and to varying degrees supplanted) by newer, tech-enabled variables: software, interactive products, digital interactions, immersive experiences, and predictive services, to name a few. Product: mechanical vs. interactive. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 3, 2018

One of our high tech clients is laser-focused on being the market leader in their space with new products and services that are continuously beyond what exists today. While both departments can innovate in some areas, it is in the organization’s best interests that certain corporate subcultures exist and are purposefully misaligned.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Alfred Eisenstaedt/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. To start to answer that question, let’s tally up the score. There are three types of products today.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Forty years ago, two companies were known for aggressively recruiting minorities on college campuses: IBM and Xerox , both considered hot tech companies of that era. The job began my long career in the high-tech industry. An innovative model developed by the Ascend Foundation provides special insight. The Numbers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

A winning pitch starts with a winning logline — a valuable lesson for innovators in any field. The most valuable innovations offer novel solutions to challenging problems. But without the support of investors, even the best ideas might never get off the ground. What does your startup or product do? What’s your idea?

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SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Article Credit: CB Insights. High deductible plans and new technologies are turning patients into savvy healthcare consumers, with higher expectations around service and experience. Companies are positioning themselves to take advantage of this shift. In healthcare, that change has come more slowly. TABLE OF CONTENTS. MOBILE TAKES OFF.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2018

.’s “once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world.” ” “Our goal,” it stated, “must be to develop the talents of all to their fullest.” ” Unfortunately, this goal hasn’t been met.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. It’s not alone in trying to jump on the trend of shared workspaces, of which there are now around 19,000 worldwide.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

When PwC asked CEOs to name the most important ingredients for successful innovation, 31% said having the capability for creativity. How many times have you heard an executive assign familiar aphorisms to business challenges–and you just know it’s a means to justify bad behavior? Craft a Culture of Encouragement.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The obvious consequence from these trends is that the big tech firms will find it increasingly difficult to legally use the personal data they collect. One obvious possibility is that a few big tech companies — such as Apple, or maybe someone new — could become consumers’ data guardians. Mark Wilson/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities. We’ve all experienced some version of this problem: Ask “how many customers do we have?” Then people misunderstand the data and make mistakes.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. In STEM fields, the ideas that spark innovation are currency, markers of exceptional colleagues. How did they do it?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Newcomers like Harry’s still represent only a fraction of the overall market , but they’ve captured the majority of the growth in that time—a defining feature of disruptive innovation. It slashed digital ad expenditures by more than $200 million and issued an ultimatum for tech firms to become more transparent.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The good news is that AI is an opportunity to build technology with less human bias and built-in inequality than has been the case in previous innovations. The good news is that AI is an opportunity to build technology with less human bias and built-in inequality than has been the case in previous innovations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

And Uber is not alone among these companies in turning to market-level experiments to test new products and innovations. We are excited about the rise of experiments in organizations and have spent much of the past few years thinking about how to design and interpret them.

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