Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The system must connect the dots horizontally. A system cannot respond effectively when information has to flow up and down hierarchical lines: it is slow, and superiors often suppress the information because they do not see its importance or relevance or don't have time to respond. just passed on), and if not, to act themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. The underlying technology behind all of the advances in robotic technology mentioned above is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). And one of the principle goals of A.I.

Productivity 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

All three of those essential components of precision medicine are now being addressed in the Army, using a system called the Behavioral Health Data Portal (BHDP). Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 million to 3.3

Health Care 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." Bharti, on the other hand, has little expertise in technology. In the U.S., The trend is spreading.

Outsourcing 9

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

The manufacturer of DVDs was featured in a book on front-line suggestion system, All You Gotta Do Is Ask by Norman Bodek and Chuck Yorke (which I mentioned in a previous post on Toyota's approach to front line improvement). The top management team learned how to structure their time on the factory floor and how to listen.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Here’s a review of the five core components of resilient systems, which I pulled together for my new book, The Big Pivot , based in part on two other important works: Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder and Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back , by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy. billion hit to earnings).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Amazon Go store allows a customer to simply swipe their phone over a sensor upon entry and then relies on an array of sensor technologies to distinguish between the consumer actions of picking up a product, placing it in a cart, or returning it to a shelf. Data analytics. Turning itself inside out.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Management and leadership skills. The program conducts regular field visits and testing to monitor quality.

Development 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. That’s why so many countries are moving ahead with ambitious plans in this sector.

Energy 8

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. By reversing the normal process, we can build standardized systems on a factory-floor with rapid on-site erection. The Use of Available Technology. Achieving Global, Low-Cost, Class-A Construction.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

” Our reasoning is that the present system fails miserably at distinguishing between large and small risks. The problem with our present warning system is that it shouts “Danger!” Such a system is of little value; people quickly learn to ignore warnings since they encounter vastly more puppies than wolves.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

For mission critical systems deployed in nuclear, aerospace, and medical device industries, how we communicate and understand risk could make a lot of difference on planning. In 2003, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan explained that the chance of a radiation related fatality in a Japanese nuclear plant is one per one million years.

Engineering 13

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And this factor is likely to loom even larger in the future because many of the benefits of new technologies increase as more people join in. Each person who joins becomes a “human node” in the system, and a potential point of vulnerability. You cannot afford defenses that will fully protect you.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. Allow time and persevere.

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

And in addition to tangible assets, one has to think about investments in people, systems, brands, and intangibles. A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003. So even in the world of platforms there are speed limits.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. Or must it be managed to build better bonds and relationships throughout the enterprise?

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

Yet for each Radio Shack and Barnes and Noble fighting for its life, there are still those beloved corner stores and discount chains that manage to thrive. If you can create a data system to give employees quick access to information about products and customers, you can equip them to advise as experts.

Retail 8

Retail Reis Price Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In fact, veterans of some of the world’s most successful tech companies often look with skepticism, even disdain, on efforts to build strong management skills. But neglecting the art of people management has significant costs for any company that aspires to be around for a while. Rule 1: Know your audience. Rule 2: Simplify.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. The women we coach who manage to sustain and fuel their ambition amid so many mixed messages use two tools.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

Instead, why not build a far more distributed energy system? Former CIA director Jim Woolsey likes to point out that a tree branch in Ohio brought the entire Northeast grid down in the summer of 2003. The other major argument for a big distributed energy push is security. Traditional energy is getting harder and more dangerous to find.

Energy 14

Energy Transportation Offshoring Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

The Department of Defense, which had originally opposed the deal, reversed course when it finally occurred to government officials that if we did not sell the Rumanians this technology, others in Western Europe would. Crisis management Global business Government' The Rumanians awarded the contract to Firestone.

Licensing 8

Licensing Politics Crisis Management Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

And a former Fama PhD student, hedge fund manager Cliff Asness, argued at the time that even if his professor was right about the dot-coms, there clearly was a bubble in the equity of already established, already profitable tech companies. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' Asness sure seems to have nailed that bubble, huh?

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Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Using microtargeting — a system of gathering and analyzing enormous amounts of data on behavior and opinions — both the Obama and Romney camps are drilling down on which voters matter, how to best reach them, and with what message. The underlying technology is still largely the same. Predict faster. and neural networks.

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