First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2011

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Clayton M. Christensen HarperCollins (2003) A brilliant analysis of a multi-dimensional paradox Having just re-read this “business classic,&# I admire it even more now than I did when it was first published.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Their daily in-person interactions are limited to the few people they live with and their other interactions are intermediated through digital technology. Consider these similarities: They are physically isolated for a long period of time from family, friends, and the majority of their work colleagues.

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Self-aware Stress Environment Long-term 332

Skip Prichard

MARCH 22, 2020

The term “social distancing” in this context apparently first appeared in 2003. The time for us to rely on our technology is now. Public space which is 12 to 25 feet or more away. Perhaps social distance refers to the social space measure in Proxemics. We are made for connecting, not distancing.” ” -Skip Prichard.

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Globalization Fashion Media Crisis 119

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That we’re still largely waiting for such an immersive world to take hold, despite much-hyped initiatives, such as Second Life, perhaps underlines the difficulties the technology has had in keeping pace with such a vision. Digital twins. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 Worth paying attention to?

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 86

CO2

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We’ll take the extra step in technology and training, finding new ways to be more effective and to develop the people that every other company wants. We’ll always take the extra step for our clients. We’ll treat them with uncommon courtesy and constantly look for ways to exceed their expectations and goals.

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Mission Statement Executive Coaching Goal Planning 89

The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” In 2003, it took over a year to achieve half this information with SARS. I began a search for reasons to be optimistic.

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Crisis Levitt Peer Review Sharpe 91

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tony Wagner that first appeared in Education Week (November 11, 2003). Don’t let the publication date fool you. If anything, his recommendations are even more urgently needed now than they were then. To read the complete article, please click here. © Tony Wagner * * [.].

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Education Article Simon System 75

HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Work-Life Balance Meaning According to Nancy Lockwood ’s 2003 Research Quarterly for SHRM , a work-life balance can be defined as “A state of equilibrium in which the demands of both a person’s job and personal life are equal.” The use of the term can be traced back as far as 1986, but its frequency has multiplied in recent years.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Stress Long-term 119

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2019

There are no shortage of breathless predictions about the impact new technologies are likely to have on the workplace, and many erstwhile reports have placed the poorly skilled firmly in the crosshairs of automated tools. The researchers assess young people who completed their GCSE exams between 2003 and 2008.

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Education Policies Career Learning-by-Doing 66

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2011

On the 4th of August at the Techonomy Conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated that “ Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. This humongous number is mainly due to user-generated content (pictures, messages, tweets etc.).

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Information Self-aware How To Learning-by-Doing 122

Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Supplied in both PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 formats for maximum compatibility. Technology Learning Model. Over the years as professionals we have used many of these in our practice. To brand them as your own just change the master slide. You can even change the theme colour to have all the elements match your brand. Managing Change.

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Download Tuckman Management Strategic Planning 47

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits?

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CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 287

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. Some firms are investing heavily in R&D to expand their technological capabilities, while others don’t make that investment and so fall further behind.

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Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. 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. After a slew of ideas like customized shampoo, dog food, and baseball bats, Randolph hit upon renting VHS tapes online.

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Learning-by-Doing Entrepreneur Wilde CEO 42

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Similar to the government’s existing ‘Help to Grow: Management’ scheme, the programme would subsidise leaders in small firms to undertake an intensive course covering everything from adopting digital technology to sourcing new potential markets.”

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

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. Maybe it was Nick Carr’s famous May 2003 HBR article “ IT Doesn’t Matter ” that did it. Economy Information & technology Internet'

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GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 14

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ A while ago, I read an interview with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, where he made a fascinating observation. And he nailed it with that statement. Because the changes around us are getting more and more intense.

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How To Open-book Learning-by-Doing Marketing 293

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

This is both because the resulting knowledge might walk out the door, as employees join other firms or start their own, and because you can acquire firms who have the needed technology. Although the setting was law firms, rather than technology firms, all the assets in those firms reside in human capital.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

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. This is attributable to China’s national technology strategy of “market access in exchange for technology.”

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GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

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.). All of which suggests that today’s breakthroughs in A.I.

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Productivity Products Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

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. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Ducati really personifies this strategy.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. What Guzman and Stern add is a method for identifying the firms that are trying to grow. “A doubling of entrepreneurial quality predicts an increase of 6.8%

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GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

But the team went beyond that, figuring that if they were having difficulty with certain technology infrastructure problems, it was highly likely that other companies were experiencing similar problems. Jassy and Amazon could have come up with a solution to this internal scaling problem and stopped there. And so Amazon Web Services was born.

Retail 9

Retail Core Competence Project Software 9

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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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

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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Competitive Advantage Collins Committee Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? in 2003, an all-time high. (Of Can we use the possibilities of these new digital technologies to drive innovation? Boards Technology' Not likely. years in 2013 from 60.3

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Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The idea that new technology transforms the way we communicate is not a new one — telephones, e-mails, text messages and tweets have all brought changes to how we express ourselves, how we gather information about others, even to how we think. We already talk through technology; inevitably, we'll be talking to technology.

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Dunning Engineering Long-term Content 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct. With a quick look at a smartphone, a traveler can easily find a great local store or restaurant option nearby.

Retail 14

Retail Mass Marketing Comparison Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

My recent paper , coauthored with Naoshi Ikeda and Sho Watanabe of Tokyo Institute of Technology, empirically tests this quiet life hypothesis with Japanese data. Do managers really work less hard without competition and monitoring? Left to their own devices, do managers really prefer the quiet life?

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Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

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. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology. When risk communication fails, people become vulnerable.

Engineering 14

Engineering Document Construction Reputation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” But fundamentals of innovation are not usually taught as part of science and technology training.

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Innovation Education Survey Training 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. By applying the solar technology he used at work, Poss envisioned how a new machine might better manage trash. The truck was idling at a pickup point, blocking traffic, with smoke pouring out of its exhaust. Employing cognitive ambidexterity.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Self-aware Efficiency Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Perhaps drawing on a national affinity for design, Italcementi has rediscovered cement as the raw material of architectural beauty, transforming a drab, gray powder into a technologically advanced and aesthetically sophisticated building material. Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project.

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Innovation Project Self-aware Fashion 8

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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Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

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.

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Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10