Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software. But I’ve found that they’re less cognizant of how software has transformed other fields that we traditionally think of as hardware-based. That would be really hard to do with analog controls, but with software? Insight Center.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

We became involved with the company, which produces inventory software, in 2004 when one of us (David) was sent by the prior majority investor to shut the fledgling company down. By the end of 2006 we had created the #1 most requested inventory software for use with QuickBooks and were solidly profitable.

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Team Leadership COO Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. However, the new handset, its software, and the available applications all failed to excite critics and customers. A second accelerant of IT delivery is the iterative software development philosophy known as "agile development."

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The China head of the packaging business, Li Xin, spent 13 years working in Sealed Air's American and Canadian operations before taking up the China assignment in 2004. LG equips its washing machines with software that recognizes simple commands, so that illiterate servants, who perform much of the household work in India, can operate them.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Then, between 2004 and 2014, Nordstrom made an extraordinary series of investments, each aimed squarely at that same purpose of providing a fabulous customer experience. First came a new point-of-sale system that included personal book software so that salespeople could track individual customer requests and needs online.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

For example, building open source software, like we do at Red Hat, involves collaborating with people outside of the company who volunteer their efforts. That’s why at Red Hat we’ve developed a simpler, more flexible approach to performance reviews, one that doesn’t limit us to narrow measures of performance.

Management 8

Management Performance Review Review Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. It issued numerous upgrades that increased the speed and throughput of its routers and improved the accompanying software platform. Research & development Financial management' It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example. Drawing on data from the U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation.

Motivation 8

Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” Cox explained that the newbies start by working on actual Facebook software code knowing that their changes will be pushed live right away: “We tell them, put your hand on it. Today is Facebook’s 10 th anniversary. Now bend it.”

Engineering 12

Engineering Class Software Mentor 12

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public. Intuit cuts through that complexity with software that simplifies. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees. Something had to be done.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They haven't learned the lesson of Comair , whose legacy crew-scheduling software failed on Christmas Eve 2004, costing the company $20 million and stranding 200,000 passengers when 3,900 flights were delayed or canceled. Avoid the temptation to develop "what if" scenarios on the fly. Don't improvise. Insist on immediate action.

System 15

System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Compare the loyalty of the BaB you just hired from another company versus someone who your company helped develop into a BaB. In 2004, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled, The Risky Business of Hiring Rock Stars. That’s a fear isn’t it, with hiring a BaB – the fear of their mobility. It’s worth reading.

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Short-term Long-term Wiseman System 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software). Nor have they understood the need to continually improve processes.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. about six years ago, and the emphasis was on the on software tools and platforms that increase information flow.

Media 9

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Not only does the planning help you develop the necessary skills and leadership presence, it also increases your chances of getting the promotion because people will already recognize you as a leader. In 2004, he started a nonprofit in Baltimore. "It The key is to take on opportunities now, regardless of your tenure or role.

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CTO Case Study Career Project 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. The result was that Apple struggled to create a robust platform connecting Apple customers and software producers. Failure to engage developers. Yet platforms can become too open.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

After a year-long analysis of seven developed countries and six sectors , we have concluded that demand matters for productivity growth and that increasing demand is key to restarting growth across advanced economies. in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% in 2014 to 2020.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Intermountain Healthcare, a system that serves patients in Utah and Idaho, has developed many such guides and is working to embed them into EMR workflows. When blood thinners or insulin are ordered at Virginia Mason, an internally developed program automatically orders the essential lab tests necessary to safely adjust these medications.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Working with an Israeli software development company, AppFront, we invested six months and more capital than we ever thought possible on it. Last month, I visited all of our U.S. restaurants to introduce our new ordering app to employees. The app was a big technology project for us.

Franchising 8

Franchising Loyalty Download Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

One of the most significant came in early 2004 when we decided to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas. We also lost some good people: Our star software developer loved San Francisco and decided not to leave. In the years since Zappos was founded, we’ve had to make some big decisions.

CEO 8

CEO Call Center Real Estate Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Unicorns are: Small in size. Until 2014, Uber had fewer than 500 employees; today their headcount is around 3,000 people.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Microsoft and Intel, as is well known, have long sought alternatives to their being fused at the hip — Microsoft seeking alternative chip platforms for its software, and Intel supporting additional operating systems.

Management 11

Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. If, on the other hand, you’re older and have financial and personal commitments, you need to develop a process so that others in your life can help you make the decision.”

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. Beyond EHRs, digital health tools — apps, wearable devices, and other hardware and software that measures and monitors health — are becoming common in consumers’ lives. Today nearly nine in 10 physicians regularly employ EHRs.

Health Care 9

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 9

Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

Dice was actually launched in 1990, initially as a bulletin board service for recruiters – and by the late 1990’s had ascended to prominence as the go-to site for finding software developers in Silicon Valley. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Two developments bear noting. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Because more people used PCs, and wrote software for them, they became the default choice for nearly everyone. First, and most obvious, traditional media is no longer the only way to spread the word. Apple learned this the hard way.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11