Back in July 2020, I examined c’s PhD thesis, looking at how incumbent firms can leverage big data. This PhD was really pleasant to read and easy to examine. So, it was with some pleasure that, last week, I came across the paper “Leveraging big data for strategic marketing: A dynamic capabilities model for incumbent … Continue reading Moving fast, without breaking things – leveraging big data in incumbent organisations
Tag: Innovation
Online groceries shopping – not such a novelty, after all
A couple of weeks ago, while I was putting away the groceries that I had ordered online earlier that week, and which had just been delivered to my house, Child 2 asked something to the effect of “When you were my age, did you ever imagine that you could order groceries from the comfort of … Continue reading Online groceries shopping – not such a novelty, after all
Diffusion of Innovations
In the summer of 2000, I did my MBA internship with a management consultancy company based in Barcelona – level of 34 of this building, actually. I was part of a multi-national team advising a major telecommunications company bidding for third-generation (3G) mobile-phone licenses across Europe. That year, several governments had been auctioning 3G licences … Continue reading Diffusion of Innovations
The case of the ‘unbreakable’ phone
A few weeks ago I delivered a guest talk on ‘Innovation’. Among other things, we looked at what turns great ideas into successful products. Many inventors believe that products which are faster / smaller / lighter… than their predecessors, or have features that make them technically superior along some dimensions, will sell themselves and quickly … Continue reading The case of the ‘unbreakable’ phone
Ana Canhoto 