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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017

by Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Adam Grant, Vijay Govindarajan, Thomas H. Davenport
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 7m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Engineering Reverse Innovations

by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan

SLOWLY BUT STEADILY, IT’S dawning on Western multinationals that it may be a good idea to design products and services in developing economies and, after adding some global tweaks, export them to developed countries.

This process, called “reverse innovation” because it’s the opposite of the traditional approach of creating products for advanced economies first, allows companies to enjoy the best of both worlds. It was first described six years ago in an HBR article cowritten by one of the authors of this article, Vijay Govindarajan.

But despite the inexorable logic of reverse innovation, only a few multinationals—notably Coca-Cola, GE, Harmon, Microsoft, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Procter ...

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ISBN: 9781633692107