Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. Franz, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, McGraw-Hill, 2011, pp.

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Quality P&L Deming Education 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% Many governments have been focused on both making themselves more efficient through digital technology (such as making it easier to renew passports through online portals) and making their countries more attractive to digital technology companies (by reducing the cost of doing business within their borders).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Since 2011, Geisinger pharmacists specializing in pain management have worked closely with patients and the rest of the healthcare team to reduce patients’ dependence on opioids while still managing their pain. Pharmacist-supported pain management.

System 10

System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Using a new database from Burning Glass Technologies containing 83 million online job postings between 2007 and 2014, across all U.S. Others have argued that the rise in skill requirements during this period was driven by changes in technology or outsourcing. industries, we indeed found strong evidence of this upskilling.

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

tax authorities in 2014 received electronic tax returns from almost 50 million people who had relied on online tax-preparation software rather than human tax professionals. In 2011 the Vatican granted the first digital imprimatur to an app called “Confession” which helps people prepare for confession. court system.

System 8

System Creativity Health Care Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

This emphasis on organizational structure comes up again in a 2014 piece by Linda Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback that looks at Google as an example of innovating continually over time. ” In 2011, Rita McGrath echoed another one of Iver and Davenport’s points: the importance of failure.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. About half of the firms that accepted this offer adopted the technology in the next six months. The second surprise was an exception to this general rule.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

I blogged about my experience in healthcare back in 2011 and described how my “hope level” for improvement in healthcare has gone up and down like a sine-wave pattern over the last 20-30 years. I described this as “I can’t tell you that there’s hope, but I can tell you that there’s hope that there’s hope.” Here’s a simple example.

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Deming Influence System Seminar 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In stark contrast, the last four years have seen continued improvement in drone technology, much of which cannot be put to use. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Could technology help? corporations between 2000 and 2011. We used a machine learning method called gradient boosting , and then evaluated the results using a separate test dataset of directors who joined firms between 2012 to 2014 who the algorithm did not observe during this “training period.”

Company 9

Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. In 2014, more than 740,000 visitors toured the historic brewery. The Coca-Cola Company has seen similar success with its World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

The company’s 2014 acquisition of Nokia’s mobile phone assets was intended to create added value by combining these hardware assets with Microsoft’s software and services. In this strategy, the company acquires businesses or technologies that have promise but are still risky, and it nurtures them to see where they lead.

Software 8

Software Price Marketing Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

” Known more politely as “patent assertion entities,” these companies buy up unused and often weak patents, and then strategically sue technology companies large and small, claiming ownership of basic components of products that have long been in the market. Kraft , delivered a blow to so-called “patent trolls.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. To date, clinical collaboration is delivered via information-sharing technology that includes: eConsults to allow network physicians to connect electronically with Mayo specialists and subspecialists when they want additional input regarding a patient’s care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Frustrated by these limitations, the global information-technology service provider Atos, headquartered in France, sought an internal collaboration system that would do away with email’s “closed” form of communication. By this year, 80,000 individuals were connected. The investment is paying off.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Tools Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Despite having 200 million internet users at the end of 2014, India is not even among the top 10 e-commerce markets in the world, according to a recent eMarketer report. In fact, as the next graphic indicates, a market such as India has been among the top destinations for private equity investments in the space since 2011.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8

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).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. But the mistake he made was preferable to waiting too long.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

Between 1997 and 2014, the number of women-owned businesses in the U.S. They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. Goldin’s research finds the smallest gender pay gap for women in technology, pharmacies, and tax preparation. rose by 68 percent. Why are women starting businesses so fast?

Middle Management 11

Middle Management Metrics Entrepreneur Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 So during initial rollout from May 2012 through February 2014, we examined 80,000 BHDP surveys in four military-treatment facilities. This combination of clear policy, well-designed technology, and redesigned workflows can come together to enable precision mental healthcare. million to 3.3

Health Care 8

Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. And more are joining every day.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Unfortunately, both questions frame the debate as if America’s jobs and income will automatically rebound, regardless of our interdependence on a global economy and the increasingly fast pace of technological change. And who creates more value than entrepreneurs? At the same time, entrepreneurship in the U.S. This must change.

Education 9

Education Long-term Learning-by-Doing Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. Amply rewarded for their activism, Icahn and his allies exited the boardroom, but a new activist investor soon came knocking.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2015

The technology doesn’t quite work as planned. In a December 2014 HBR article , we argued that these kinds of zombie amnesties are a vital component of a systematic approach to innovation. Its financial projections, while always uncertain, look reasonable. Market assumptions seem plausible. Customers react in an unexpected way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. Some 62.4%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Kate had had a taste of entrepreneurial life — she was on the management team of ArtusLabs, the North Carolina-based software company that was bought by PerkinElmer in 2011 — and knew how “exciting it was to work at a start-up.” “I knew I wanted to be free to make these big decisions.” I have no regrets.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. There have also been changes in the framework agreement around the ownership of Alipay in both 2011 and 2012, as well as a buyback of almost half of the Yahoo stake in May of 2012 for $7 billion.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

This program provided financial incentives to adopt certified EHR technology systems and includes requirements that specific providers “meaningfully use” these systems. As a result of this program, 97% of reported hospitals had certified EHR technology in 2014, up from 72% in 2011.

Health Care 8

Health Care Incentives Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. AT&T was blocked from acquiring T-Mobile back in 2011 and Sprint and T-Mobile talked but couldn’t get a deal done this year. Carson Jimi Filipovski/Unsplash. What we watch. The remix in media took a similar path.

Automotive 8

Automotive Retail Restructuring Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

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. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011. This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8