Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. Well, you’re not alone. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. Are all of these great teachers?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Using analytics, the city found a non-obvious systemic relationship—one where the dots may never have been connected otherwise—with costly unintended consequences: In fiscal year 2010, the budget allocated to the Parks and Recreation department for tree pruning was sharply reduced. Decision making Information & technology Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. 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. Such investments might not be sustainable in the long term.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In 2010 the computer worm Stuxnet was discovered and implicated in the attack that caused physical damage to centrifuges at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. These technologies also isolate different parts of the system from one another in the event of a security breach. Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

A revolution in information technology has transformed businesses around the globe over the past two decades. More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. And innovative technology soon will extend its reach without increasing its size.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

The situation is such that if a physician from the 1950s were magically brought back to life today, he would recognize none of the technology that a contemporary doctor uses, but he would feel quite at home in the settings in which the technology is used. Medicare payment policy favors doing more, not doing better.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not. Job growth has slowed significantly in the financial- and business-services sectors due to technology-driven service industrialization (automation, outsourcing, off-shoring, process re-engineering, and self-service).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. Moreover, it forgot that it will continue to do well in China and India not just by keeping costs low but also by developing new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. And on and on. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Bradley Manning , the presumptive leaker, might have been a low-ranking member of the armed forces ( he was demoted from Specialist to Private First Class in May 2010 after assaulting another soldier), but he was an intelligence analyst supporting a brigade in Iraq. But technology is not the culprit here; a misguided person is.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. A digitally-skilled workforce is vital to help deploy advanced digital technologies that can streamline and automate grid operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Between January 2008 and February 2010, 8.8 Ask for help reducing your low-value work from your company’s productivity unit or information technology gurus. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. That kind of thinking ended during the recession of 2007-2009.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. All over the world, automakers are mastering new drive train technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

In my 2010 HBR piece , I reviewed some of the ways in which firms are doing this, and the story continues. New technologies, industry standards, and approaches to tagging and labeling are enhancing the ability of consumers to trace the origin of goods.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. It's telling us that software as a service just blinked into being mainstream in 2010. The feature? Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. If we listen to "undo", what is it telling us now?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 for Spain's financial sector.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 11, 2019

That’s beginning to shift however, with R&D hubs emerging in countries like China, India and Israel, and a recent study argues that the role played by information technology in innovation is a major driver behind this change. Shifting R&D overseas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

We're all worried about the costs of information overload and we typically associate these problems with new digital technologies. She is the author of Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age (Yale UP 2010).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

In China, we calculate that the rural population will fall from 53 percent of the total in 2010 to 45 percent in 2020, with rural households' share of the country's disposable income falling to about 15 percent, down from 25 percent today. Greater use of information technology and mobile communications to empower farmers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In 2010, one large Asian information technology services company decided to run an experiment to see if rewards could actually improve and encourage employee ideas. People could already submit suggestions through an internal system, but the company wanted to test whether rewards would lead to better ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

In 2010, Tim Hwang and a few friends in Cambridge found themselves questioning the costs associated with raising a few thousand dollars to launch an online project. When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010 they had a ready-made network of project managers and techies in cities all over the world.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

In cardiology alone, for example, the country spent $273 billion in total direct costs in 2010 and will spend an expected $818 billion in 2030. Computerized clinical decision support with embedded evidence-based practice guidelines can fill in information gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6% As Ari Hoffman and Ezekiel Emanuel argue in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reengineering is very different from implementing new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In 2010, when MD Anderson decided to introduce time-driven activity-based costing , a method for measuring costs of treating a patient’s medical condition across a cycle of care, the ICCI provided the leadership and resources to develop the capabilities for a pilot project and then to scale the approach across the institution.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Complexity stemming from globalization or technology rank much lower in the list of causes. Businesses are focusing on technological solutions to tackle complexity. As a source of complexity, though, technology comes in only at seventh place in the survey.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. Over the next few months, well each be authoring posts in this blog to test-drive ideas and invite input as the research progresses.) All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

When we over-automate big-data tools, we get Target's faux pas of sending baby coupons to a teenager who hadn't yet told her parents she was pregnant, or the Flash Crash on Thursday May 6, 2010 , in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged about 1000 points — or about nine percent.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

An effort under way at the Mayo Clinic shows how such technology can be used to improve outcomes and lower costs in health care. Customer service Customers Health Information & technology Technology' Defining the care a patient can expect to receive and what the road to recovery will look like is crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

At their most fundamental level, all organizations can be thought of as “information processors” that rely on the technologies of hierarchy, specialization, and human perception to collect, disseminate, and act on insights. manufacturing nearly tripled between 2005 and 2010, from 11% to 30% of plants.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

As a 2010 study by the Center for College Affordability , a non-profit research center, expressed it: "With a tenure system, colleges are not able to reduce the number of medieval history professors in order to increase the number of information technology and business professors.". For example, a 2011 UCLA study of 6,768 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Currently, modern technology — fueled by software, the internet, and the cloud — makes it possible for a challenger to enter the market at minimal cost. From around 1990 to 2010 Microsoft arguably ruled the information-technology industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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