Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2010

WikiLeaks, the swashbuckling new-media organization whose motto is “We open governments,” relies on a technology of extreme reticence called Tor Hidden Services — a part of the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated not to light and clarity but to shadows and opacity, to the increasingly difficult art of keeping secrets online.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission. Brown-Nosers constantly check in with their leaders and operate by seeking permission, rather than forgiveness.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

Distraction…A Challenge to Good Leadership → January 5, 2010 · 1:37 am ↓ Jump to Comments When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master My son has been helping me learn more about Social Media. For instance, people of my generation are grappling with the wonders of technology with varying degrees of success.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. And that’s just what we find.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. Pitfall #9: Developing your own social software and analytics solutions.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. It was far easier to create the technology than to get the management agreement to use it across functions and country units.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). As we've found so many times before, data and software can play a critical role in making operations more efficient and sustainable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. Social Media is not about technology – it’s about communication. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

AT&T was the only telephone operator in the United States; telephony was just one of many high-impact industries that were highly regulated and protected from competition. Along came Apple's iPad (introduced in April 2010), and those projections immediately dropped for the second and all-important third quarters.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Translation software? That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? points in October 2010 to 737.3

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2011

Perhaps the best example of such a complementary supplier is the app developer that provides software programs that you might download on an iPhone or iPad, just like Coke and Huggies supply products that make supermarkets valuable. This is not so for many of our current technological platforms. We know how that ended up.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. That’s just a sampling.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I spent the last 18 months researching and writing a book on how organizations and leaders can do extraordinary things, even if they operate in pretty ordinary fields. Doyle’s talk was titled, “How to Transform a Legacy Company into a Technology-Enabled, Nimble, Category-Disrupting Machine” — and it delivered.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations. Getting to 1.5 Embrace renewable energy.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Thanks for a wonderful 2010. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Great professional achievements are tarnished against a backdrop of personal failure. You've helped me a great deal in this area Mike. Thanks for the great reminder. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Now this strategy/brand hybrid has evolved into an umbrella idea to cover everything from operational improvements — such as eco-efficiency "Treasure Hunt" events that have saved GE a whopping $150 million in energy costs — to innovation initiatives, both internal and external. VC money isn't going to take these ideas far enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. Firms are failing faster than they used to , for instance, and there is substantial evidence that the gap between winning and losing firms is partly driven by technology adoption. Firms concentrate on what they’re good at, adopt new technology, and deliver products and services more efficiently.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Missing Link In Building The Perfect Team by Starbucker on March 15, 2010 They are often thrown into their jobs head first. Mark Silver March 17, 2010 at 8:43 am Yes and yes. Sound familiar? Popularity: 2% [ ?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Instead, ideas, technologies, capabilities, and resources somehow organize themselves to meet the human and financial needs of new ventures. Innocentive is a network that brings together "seekers" with technology challenges with "solvers" all over the world. FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

You can read about it in recent issues of The Economist , The New York Times , and in the book The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 4 million people earned their living working with computers in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. These new ventures would operate separately from the core hospital assets and would compete in new ways in the health care marketplace.

Strategy 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

They seek to rally a formidable ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and/or complementors to their cause by defining attractive new markets, standards, technology platforms, and business practices through marketing, lobbying, and savvy partnerships.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It came by great gas mileage on the back of a scam: The car’s supposedly low emissions were fraud — perpetrated by VW engineers who designed the car’s software to lower emissions during testing, only to let them bump back up in real life use. Now we know that vehicle wasn’t green. It arguably started with BP.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

That is, rather than employ a new technology to disrupt a company’s business model, an upstart disrupts the entire breadth of an entrenched value chain by wresting control of a critical asset. So, at the moment Apple TV is a $1 billion line of hardware that is so small, relatively speaking, that Jobs dismissed it as a hobby.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 6, 2010

At Performance Support Systems, we took an outside-the-box approach to this technology. The software came with a huge library of generic straw-man assessment sets and allowed easy do-it-yourself customization so organizations could align surveys with their local competency models. Copyright 2010. The service was very expensive.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Implement and update the model Using analytical software such as SAS, build and implement the model.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). Dozens of software companies were acquired so that those industry-focused teams could leverage their efforts profitably and repeatedly.

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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. In addition to software development, we converted hundreds of pages of patient instructions and educational materials into videos, voice-over slideshows, and text modules that the software could deliver.

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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.

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