Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. In 2005, the OECD estimated that annual TFP growth averaged 3.7% What about spillover gains tied to foreign direct investment, joint ventures, and other ties to developed countries? per annum during 1978-2003, but slowed to 2.8%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

To get everyone speaking the same spatial language, we created a Collaboration and Quiet index consisting of seven attributes that can more concretely enable people to match a desired way of working with a physical space: location, enclosure, exposure, technology, temporality, perspective, and size. courtesy of HLW International.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The first is technological, as the confluence of high-speed internet, mobile devices, and cloud computing has made it possible to start and scale digitally-enabled businesses at a fraction of the cost. We can point to three major factors driving these trends, though there are others. The third factor is political.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

They’re given state-of-the-art technology, $2,000 to build a home office, and a large travel budget so they can meet up with other team members twice a year in beautiful, exciting places such as La Paz, Mexico, and Amsterdam. grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Advances in technology are keeping pace.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In another example Innosight has researched, Xerox was forced to lay off nearly 40,000 of its 91,000 workers from 2000 to 2005 to return to profitability and make way for its transformation from a technology company into a services company. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

He’s a thoughtful, friendly, and caring person who genuinely wants to help people , not only by improving their web sites, but by improving the quality of their lives as well. The human qualities I felt these people possessed I think are sadly scarce but are the reasons for their success.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Larry Sullivan, from Ford, wrote an account of the visit he made to Japan in 1982 to “study quality systems at a variety of automotive suppliers.” Reference – Reducing Variability: A New Approach to Quality , L.P. Sullivan, Quality Progress, July 1984). – that it is in fact a totally different discipline.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

But, my friends, one of the best things I’ve done, in summer of 2005, was start painting the wall. ” But research indicates that our best measures of these qualities are unreliable predictors of performance in academics or employment. I had to develop the discipline to listen. ” I said, No.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

All that math training I got in high school finally paid off, because the mental image that flashed in my head was an equation of sorts: The first part of the equation summarized the qualities needed in every single employee. “Pr&# is Pride. “ Fc&# is Focus. ranked on a 1-10 scale.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Even as recently as 2005, European players were able to hold the ball for three seconds, on average, before passing; today, they can keep the ball for less than a second before being challenged. Studies however show that less than 10% of departmental managers develop visions that guide their staff.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

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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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Regulators would now decide how spectrum would be used, what technologies were permissible, and approve — or reject — the wireless services, networks, applications, and business models that might be introduced. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate.

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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. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Galvanized by the seminal publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System in 1999, the patient-safety movement has resulted in substantial improvements in the safety and quality of the care delivered by hospitals. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

The first involves cost reduction through improved data quality. In a nutshell, improving quality takes those costs out, largely by creating data correctly the first time. Improved data quality also lies at the root of the second strategy, which I call “ content is king. The sums can be enormous. Think Google.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users. In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Because it failed to remedy safety process and safety management failures detailed in reports following BP's 2005 plant explosion at Texas City, senior BP management off the rig — from the board of directors down — acted improperly. No criminal charges have been filed against the company.).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

Today digital technology is all the rage because after decades of development it has become incredibly useful. We need to start preparing for a new era of innovation in which different technologies, such as genomics, materials science, and robotics , rise to the fore. First is the technology itself.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Use new Disruptive Technology. When I started in political campaigns in the late 70s, the disruptive new technology was TV. This is the approach we used with Tony Blair while working on his 2005 re-election. It refreshed the Ford oval and made the company synonymous with new technology in the auto industry. In the U.K.

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