Information technology and telecom sector

Three mindsets that lead to "nondisruptive creation."

Are you in control of your content experience?

Consumers are hanging up on BlackBerry in droves as they are lured to sexier and sleeker smartphones and tablets. The depth of the challenges facing BlackBerry’s maker, Research in Motion (RIM), are illustrated by its stock price free-fall of more than 80% during the past two years and lower-than-expected BlackBerry sales. BlackBerry’s rise and fall […]

In most companies, strategic planning isn’t about making decisions. It’s about documenting choices that have already been made, often haphazardly. Leading firms are rethinking their approach to strategy development so they can make more, better, and faster decisions.

Enter iPad. The proponents call it a radical new dominant design for computing. Don’t buy the hype, say the detractors: the iPad’s just another land-grabbing walled garden. Both sides are right — and wrong. The iPad is a revolution waiting to happen. But the revolution’s biggest roadblock is Apple itself. Here’s what’s really going on. […]

Midcareer employees and managers, who should be at their peak of productivity, are the most disaffected segment of the workforce. Companies need to find ways to rekindle the fires of this vast, neglected group of people—or risk losing them altogether.

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall...

Questions to ask and processes to follow.

Research shows they do, but how health care providers should use them isn’t quite so clear.

It's possible, but the challenges facing the new CEO are systemic.

They are two separate processes.

Sixty percent of maternal deaths in the United States are preventable.

And what they could mean for the Internet of Things.

The intersection of technology and the physical economy is about to ramp up.

The most dubious business plan can look solid—even smart—if it’s cast as a virtuous circle. “See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy—which generate profits that we invest in innovation!” Who could argue with that? Indeed, the merit of self-reinforcing systems seems so obvious that businesspeople instinctively describe their […]

A study of physicians in the UK identified four reasons.

Many economists argue that monopolies stifle innovation. But before the breakup, AT&T and its R&D units constituted probably the most potent innovation...

It will take the right laws.

On June 12, 2005, in his commencement address to Stanford's graduating class, Steve Jobs revealed: "When I was 17, I read a quote that went something...

A big bank headquartered in New York had to make a decision about its information technology. The bank was expanding its London operations and needed a new computer system there. Technical specialists in London were certain that only one particular vendor could meet the requirements. The information-systems people in New York were equally certain that […]