Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Leading companies such as IBM, Ford, and Avery Dennison are making major improvements in key processes by creating online communities to share deep knowledge. Here's what they're doing: Collaborating vertically to create and implement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

Even though it's what keeps companies operationally in shape, front-line process improvement is hard to sustain. They described how each Technicolor employee had a target of suggesting two process improvements per month. That sounded like a great way to keep a process improvement program going. Consider the story of Technicolor.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. Randolph takes us through the whole process from idea to launch day. His self-knowledge made is easier for him to know when it was time to go as he eventually did in 2003 not long after Netflix went public. Then the game was on. It worked, and they had their idea.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

After the dot-com bubble, investment in software and information processing equipment in the U.S. job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. tumbled, and stayed down. ” Got that?

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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.).

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? The ever-growing digital wave is washing over just about every facet of our personal and organizational lives, our consumer experiences, and across every industry and sector in its impact on business models and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

The one certain outcome of these two strategies, of course, is to accelerate the commoditization process itself. Italcementi has achieved this through a co-innovation process with great contemporary architects. Through the co-innovation process, architects get an essential raw material tailored to the needs of their projects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Technology has undoubtedly ushered in progress in a myriad of ways. In 2010, Eric Schmidt, then the CEO of Google, shared a concern with the world : “Every two days, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization until 2003.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

In 2003 a doctor with SARS unknowingly infected several guests while staying at a Hong Kong hotel, and overnight the virus reached across the globe. With the advent of genome-editing technologies, bioterrorists could artificially engineer new plagues, a threat that Ashton Carter, the former U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. Sepsis can be such a process. Clinicians need predictions to be meaningful and receive them early in the deterioration process. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Health Care System Information Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

In the process, more than 600 million people have escaped poverty. percentage points in 2003-2012. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization. China, too, needs more technological innovation. It contributed 1.4

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. Through discussions with diverse stakeholders, he turned the problem upside down: the answer might not be about developing a more efficient collection process, but about reducing the need for frequent trash collection.

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Efficiency Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development. But ignoring talent processes and strategies can have unintended consequences and stall one’s scaling efforts. Recruiting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

” The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring, and training and development. But ignoring talent processes and strategies can have unintended consequences and stall one’s scaling efforts. Recruiting.

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Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

New process improvement initiatives tend to start with some hype. Finally: "This may sound like process improvement programs that failed here before, but believe me, this is much better. Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

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. For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S., will also be pivotal in that process.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently? One of them has clearly been information technology. The Productivity Gap Is Causing a Wage Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

I use the term "proprietary data" after the 2003 HBR classic, "IT Doesn't Matter," by Nicholas Carr. There, he introduced the contrasting notions of "infrastructure" and "proprietary" technologies. An infrastructure technology diffuses throughout the economy in support of numerous industries and, in time, becomes available to all.

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Competitive Advantage Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Retail 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It may well be that some Self-Starters lack the equipment, technology, or funding needed to perform well and have simply given up. Fifth, organizations having decent selection processes are more likely to hire Brown-Nosers and Self-Starters than Criticizers and Slackers. Storage Technology Corporation (“StorageTek”) and U S WEST Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

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 Previous efforts at consistent patient screening employed a manual process. Such a manual process is labor-intensive and potentially error prone. million to 3.3

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Basic challenges associated with parking, waiting, and missed time at work cause many patients to either dread the process of receiving care or to forgo it entirely. To the extent that the technology Amazon developed for Amazon Go can be turned to services beyond grocery shopping, health care may be one of the early beneficiaries.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible. Social enterprise Venture capital'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Directness. He's personable, but blunt. Microsoft's enterprise services stagnated.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

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. That is 6 million lives – 100 football stadiums of children – that could be saved each year.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Its structures and processes have been reengineered to maximize value. The first clinical specialties started adopting ProvenCare in 2003, and the organization has been working through the rest for the past 12 years. Making these changes required skill, will, and time underpinned by rigorous process. million people.

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Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2016

A cautionary tale from the past: After acquiring EachNet.com, eBay controlled 80% of the Chinese e-commerce market in 2003. Instead, they seem to be yet another manifestation of what I call technotrances : a belief in technology as an irresistible force for integrating the world.

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Network Economy Globalization Discount Constraint 8

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

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Allow time and persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

Roughly 30 to 40 applications for new plants or expansions to existing facilities are moving through the process with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). 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. That's where we have to go now.

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Energy Transportation Offshoring Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Between 1984 and 2003, this once-popular software application went from 40 features to more than 1500, with 35 tool bars! The classic example of using data to achieve product success is the multi-step e-commerce checkout process. This process of relationship-building takes more time, but those moments of the day are well-spent.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

By 2003 I could no longer speak intelligibly or walk, and any muscle control became more difficult as the disease progressed. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. In the process, I learn what they think about one another. Marion Barraud for HBR. Manage the feedback flow.

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Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. The underlying technology is still largely the same. It's a world where hundredths of a percentage point matter. Predict faster.

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