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What's Your Google Strategy? (Spanish version)
Hagiu, Andrei; Yoffie, David B.Article HBS-R0904FStrategy(1) Whether to play with existing MSPs, build their own platform, or do both; (2) once they've concluded that at least one third-party MSP can benefit their business, deciding how many to join; and (3) figuring out how to play - that is, which features or services they should adopt and which they should reject in order to maintain their company's competitive advantage. Some companies that lack the power to influence an MSP's actions may have few...Starting at €8.20
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La última guerra por el formato DVD
Hagiu, AndreiCase HBS-713S20StrategyProporciona una visión general breve de la batalla entre los estándares HD-DVD y Blu-ray, centrándose en los acontecimientos que precipitaron la victoria de Blu-ray a principios de 2008.Starting at €8.20
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Design and Meanings: Innovating by Making Sense of Things--The Advantage of Design-Driven Innovation
Verganti, RobertoBook Chapter HBS-3680BC-EEvery product has a meaning. Yet many companies do not think about how meanings change or how to innovate meanings. They strive to understand how people currently give meaning to things--only to discover that this meaning has been suggested by a new product designed by a competitor. But like technologies, meanings may be subject to an R&D process. And the process through which a company can innovate product meanings is design. This chapter illust...Starting at €8.20
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Radical Pushes: Placing Design-Driven Innovation in the Strategy of a Firm
Verganti, RobertoBook Chapter HBS-3681BC-EMost analysts hold that the innovation strategy of firms consists of two domains: incremental and radical. According to these theories, radical innovation is the realm of technological breakthroughs. The meanings behind products are supposed to be part of the first domain: companies can understand them better only by scrutinizing user behavior and using the resulting insights to improve their products. In this chapter, however, noted innovation e...Starting at €8.20
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The Value and the Challenges: Why Companies Do or Do Not Invest in Design-Driven Innovation
Verganti, RobertoBook Chapter HBS-3683BC-EIn the current innovation race, products tend to survive for a very short time, and firms are unwilling to waste resources in constant redesign. Design-driven innovation, or radically altering the meanings of products and services, can produce innovations with a life cycle significantly longer than that of the competition. But how do you convince the right people to invest in design-driven innovation? In this chapter, noted innovation expert Robe...Starting at €8.20
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The Interpreters: Doing Research with the Design Discourse--Move Away from Users to Innovate with the Help of a Circle of External Research Partners
Verganti, RobertoBook Chapter HBS-3684BC-EEvery company would love to be the one that changes the paradigm, that radically redefines the meaning of things. Companies that master design-driven innovation have a distinct advantage over competitors because they repeatedly develop and release products or services that customers didn't even know they wanted, but now can't live without. Their innovations aren't flukes--these firms have a process and capabilities, built and led by entrepreneurs...Starting at €8.20
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Businesspeople: The Key Role of Top Executives and Their Culture--Design-Driven Innovation Requires Inspiring and Invested Leaders
Verganti, RobertoBook Chapter HBS-3690BC-EIt is widely known that Steve Jobs has an intense devotion to radical innovation projects. The iPod--a design-driven innovation--was no exception. He set the direction and defined the requirements for a product for which there was no reference in the market. And look at the results. There is no radical innovation without inspiring leaders, and this chapter delves into the crucial role executives play in the success of design-driven innovation. Th...Starting at €8.20
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What's Your Google Strategy
Hagiu, Andrei; Yoffie, David B.Article HBS-R0904F-EStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Multisided platforms can lower your transaction costs and increase customer reach. But powerful MSPs like Microsoft, Google, and Apple have also tended to extract most of the value from their platforms, mainly because companies that played with them didn't adequate...Starting at €8.20
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The Innovative Power of Criticism
Verganti, RobertoArticle HBS-R1601G-EThanks to powerful ideation approaches such as design thinking and crowdsourcing, it has become incredibly easy and relatively inexpensive for companies to obtain a vast number of novel concepts, from both insiders and outsiders such as customers, designers, and scientists. Yet many organizations still struggle to identify and seize big opportunities. That's because major changes in society and technology fundamentally challenge the conventional ...Starting at €8.20
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Finding the Platform in Your Product
Hagiu, Andrei; Altman, Elizabeth J.Article HBS-R1704G-EStrategyFive of the 10 most valuable companies in the world today--Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft--derive much of their worth from their multisided platforms, which facilitate interactions or transactions between parties. Many MSPs are more valuable than companies in the same industries that provide only products or services: For instance, Airbnb is now worth more than Marriott, the world's largest hotel chain. However, companies that w...Starting at €8.20