Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Rather than improving software in one large batch, updates are made continuously, piece-by-piece, enabling software code to be delivered to customers as soon as it is completed and tested. Fix errors faster.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

But what about the kinds of jobs where measuring someone’s “output” isn’t about counting the number of widgets they produced, but rather it’s about how they managed a team or influenced others or helped people collaborate better? Second, managers focus on opportunities, not score-keeping.

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Management Performance Review Review Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Here's a case in point: In 2004, my HBS colleague Gary Pisano and I conducted a project at a leading manufacturer of highly sophisticated production equipment for the electronics industry, which I'll call "Exotech." So the company assumed the software team would, too. But the results were much different on the software side.

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Team Software Project Tools 12

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 create leadership teams not only for our top jobs, but for every management position in the company. 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. A lot of people thought we were crazy.

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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.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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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."

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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." Which aspiring manager would want to deal with the disaster that was Apple at the time? How do I know?

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Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Sealed Air China has been successful not only because its senior managers understand the local market, but also because they are knowledgeable about the parent company's value proposition and technical strengths. That long stint earned him the trust of the global CEO, Bill Hickey, and his top management team.

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Globalization CEO Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). 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).

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. After all, the fixed overheads are already in place.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

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. Change management Getting buy-in Informal leadership'

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Engineering Class Software Mentor 11

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.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Change management Leadership' With renewed solidarity and determination, the beard-wearing Sox went on to win the division, the playoffs, and the big prize.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. Zone Labs was an upstart internet security software developer aspiring to disrupt established giants such as Symantec, McAfee, Check Point Software, and Cisco.

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Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The number of workers allowed via the scheme was capped in 2004, and the researchers wanted to focus on what they perceived to be an overlooked aspect of the immigration debate. The researchers tested this hypothesis using the 2004 policy change that saw H-1B visas heavily restricted as the focal point.

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Offshoring Policies Innovation Organizational Behavior 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. And that question is likely to be answered in the affirmative if the directors have managed to avoid the Peter Principle. Great at mid-level, the managers were not game-ready for the next level.

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CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management.

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System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

It’s interesting that there’s a book designed to teach managers how to keep the BaBs that they hired. In 2004, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled, The Risky Business of Hiring Rock Stars. “For That’s a fear isn’t it, with hiring a BaB – the fear of their mobility.

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Short-term Long-term Wiseman System 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Find out what keeps your manager up at night and propose solutions to those problems. It''s appropriate to raise your ambitions with your manager if you have a trusting, solid relationship, but frame them in a way that focuses on what''s best for the company. "Show her that you''re willing to pick up the baton on important projects."

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CTO Case Study Career Project 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

I’ve been writing about this problem since 2004 , and doing my best to help advertisers avoid it. They were, for a time, eBay’s largest two affiliates, and they report that eBay wooed them with dedicated account managers, chartered jets, and more. The Way Forward: Aligning Incentives for Marketing Managers.

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Marketing Affiliate Marketing Advertising Dunning 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. For the convenience of using an online service that we don''t have to manage, we trade our privacy and risk the confidentiality of our data.

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Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Global airlines manage their multi-partner alliances carefully to avoid duplicating routes. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings.

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Management Airlines How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Failure to engage developers.

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Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% Investment, in turn, is critical for productivity growth, as it equips workers with more – and with more recent and innovative – equipment, software, and structures. In fact, about half of the slowdown in productivity growth — from an average of 2.4%

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Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 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. Some teams decided to hoist their general manager in the air for the picture; others formed human pyramids. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. Insight Center.

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Franchising Loyalty Download Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. 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. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2004, large Seattle employers came to our medical center seeking more affordable health care. The first is establishing explicit, best-practice standards to reduce needless variation in the management of medical conditions. A uniquely disruptive application of the EMR is its use to block costly and unnecessary care.

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Health Care Innovation Creativity Guidelines 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.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

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. “I was quite happy running a marketing organization within a larger software company,” Steve recalls.

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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 was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume.

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Price IPO Content Marketing 101

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

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. Apple learned this the hard way. For 20 years, starting in 1984, the Macintosh was superior to any PC. Apple had a great product, but Microsoft had a network of connected users.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11