Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

As technology develops, what customers expect from their companies develops too. There was a time when companies could operate without corporate websites or email contacts; now websites are the centerpiece of marketing and branding. According to Gartner, there were 2 billion mobile handsets in 2005; today, it's 5 billion.

Brand 8

Brand Budgeting Media Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

percent since 2005. Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S.-based Bad tools hurt productivity.

Tools 8

Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

.” Following pathbreakers such as Caesar’s CEO Gary Loveman – who attributes his firm’s success to the use of databases and cutting-edge analytical tools – managers at many levels are now consuming data and analytical output in unprecedented ways. This should come as no surprise.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology Objective Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A number of techniques and process-improvement tools from inside and outside the industry have been brought to bear: lean engineering to simplify and standardize care, Crew Resource Management to improve teamwork, checklists to help teams focus and improve reliability, and so on. Six sigma — or no more than 3.4

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Six Sigma System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology. It’s a budget decision, which depends on what the principle operation is.

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But thanks to social and mobile technologies, consumers are now "hyper-connected and super-empowered," to use Thomas Friedman's memorable phrase. We normally think of insurgency in a political context, but today's digital technologies are creating a similar dynamic in business. Level 2: Engage and Dissipate.

Brand 15

Brand PR Strategy Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Just one in three diagnostic mistakes result from physicians’ mental mistakes, according to a 2005 analysis by the Archives of Internal Medicine. Second, embrace technology. Third, support research to create better diagnostic tools. Together, they immediately considered the most important questions—Is there a fracture?

Cost 8

Cost Health Care System Software 8

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. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Document Travel Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of Internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy. Of course, the shuttered stores, depressed execs, and tanking stocks suggest otherwise.

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Digital, social, and mobile technologies are still new enough that there’s a lot that’s measured as a binary (a checkbox for responsive design, for example) or subjectively (that new app looks great). Experimentation is essential — a digital team operating within the bounds of tried and true will not advance your goals.

Team 8

Team Management Software Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Smart companies understand that workspaces are a business tool. Adobe’s New York office had been growing due to its acquisitions of smaller technology companies. Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees. And people wanted more meeting spaces that could be used quickly and informally.

Maturity 8

Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. Such leaders understand that a push to undertake a new strategy or to redirect operational performance depends pivotally on how well they communicate with employees.

Company 8

Company Video CEO Crisis 8

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. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. ” I said, But they don’t look good, we need to do something about it. ” I said, No.

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

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.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs. All kinds of companies had failed at operational flexibility. Hardly a desirable position. Optimization through cross-training.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 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. Financial tools. There are considerable hurdles to scaling any health service in resource-constrained settings.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

To address the realities of climate change and other ways in which we are increasingly overrunning planetary boundaries, we must now shift our mindsets, technologies, and business models from left to right, and from bottom to top. In 2005, I visited Wired magazine’s founding editor Kevin Kelly at his home in California.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Long-term Business Model Bottom-up 9

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.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8