Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If you know your audience well enough, you can get very accurate information by simply asking them. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. In too many companies, IT leaders, relegated to their cost centers, are subordinate to other C-level executives. In other, more forward-looking companies, the situation is radically different.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

An executive in a power company who was presenting to an important sales prospect opened his talk with a story about a company employee who cut short his vacation and drove 300 miles to help restore power after a hurricane. The executive used the story to illustrate that the company prides itself on serving its customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management. Census to collect data on a large number of companies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Data scientists are very much in demand as companies grapple with the challenge of making valuable discoveries from Big Data. As recently as 2011, there were next to no formal training programs. Meanwhile, companies like IBM are partnering with universities to close the Big Data skills gap. It’s turning into a mixed bag.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

A May 2011 McKinsey Global Institute study on big data analytics predicted a coming shortfall of around 150,000 people with deep analytical skills – and a shortfall of 1.5 How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster. Information & technology Talent management' From Data to Action An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

We deliver 21st century medicine using 19th century practices — and this contradiction between the new and the old, is most obvious in the information systems doctors and hospitals use to care for their patients and communicate with each other. Healthcare costs are out of control, bankrupting companies and governments alike.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

CEOs of midsized companies who make big bets can lose the farm. The executives of Fortune 500 companies might be able to lose the same bet with impunity, and the founders of venture capital-funded startups are only renting the farm (with the VC’s money) anyway. The project budget paid for the software and not a lot more.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. The company received much acclaim for its transformation in the press (including some from us). Ford invested heavily in digital initiatives only to see its stock price lag due to cost and quality issues elsewhere in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In our survey research , a mere 7% of executives said that their company’s digital initiatives were helping them to launch new businesses. A puzzling customer insight bothered the company’s executives. The company’s existing sales methods couldn’t handle these special requests. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. While the Constellation study is careful to say that companies rise and fall for many reasons, digital disruption is clearly responsible for a large share. The value of the digital economy continues to grow in size and importance in every company in every industry.

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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. Information & technology Innovation' In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

So far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. If so, you're in good company. Of all the capital being invested around the world, how much would you think is foreign direct investment by companies outside of their home countries? Global Prosperity and How to Achieve it (HBR Press, 2011). For example, take foreign investment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 BHDP requires the use of an additional information system because the electronic health record (EHR) system used by the U.S. Between 2003, when the Iraq war began and the conflict in Afghanistan was two years old, the Army’s volume of mental health care visits tripled, from 1.1 million to 3.3

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

In 1968 an investor named Arthur Rock backed executives from Fairchild Semiconductor to start a new company, which would become known as Intel. Stanford provost Frederick Terman, as well as existing companies such as Hewlett-Packard, also devoted resources to broadening and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Between 2006 and 2012, the company was involved, sometimes as plaintiff and sometimes as defendant, in nearly 150 patent lawsuits around the world over various features of its iPhone — including hardware, software, and product design. Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. And so Apple has.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

The company seemed to be an actual person, and a creepy one at that. As we record more information in digital form in hopes of sharing it with our intimate contacts and less enthusiastically with advertisers who pay for the services we love, it's inevitable that more of these visceral responses will occur.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Groupon, a 2 year old company, turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer. I'm not worried that computers are going to become self-aware and rise up against us, but I would be worried about a company whose leaders thought that their deep experience and keen intuition were better guides than any box programmed by pencil-necked geeks.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

At the end of 2011, there were one billion smartphone subscriptions activated worldwide (out of a total of more than six billion phone subscriptions), and the market was growing at 37% annually. If the rumors are true, and Apple is about to try to reinvent television, it could become even stronger as a company.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

While Congress is considering the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), there is a philosophical divide regarding the best way to deal with online piracy. Any measure to minimize piracy for a company such as Google would increase operating costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

The latest evidence is the recent news that healthcare companies are experimenting with “hospitals at home” for patients – not surprising, given that the cost of adding a new in-hospital bed now averages well above $1.5 Even health care is harking back to the days of the house call.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The report also explains the wide range of measures companies are adopting to tackle the complexity; from cutting down management layers to simplifying product portfolios and processes. Businesses are focusing on technological solutions to tackle complexity. More information is available at www.eiu.com. About the Research.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

But what she viewed as a trivial act was in fact a serious data security threat that created massive liability for her company. The HITECH Act enacted in 2009 extended provisions surrounding information handling and increased penalties for HIPAA violations. Make sure the way they obtain them doesn''t cost your company billions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

In fact, CEO Howard Schultz considered the combination of mobile payments and social networking as central to the company''s "blueprint for growth.". In 2011, Starbucks launched Android and iPhone apps that enabled customers to mobilize and easily reload their plastic cards or purchase new digital gift cards.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

When multiple physicians, clinics, hospitals - and insurance companies - are involved in the care of a patient, the complexity can be overwhelming, both for the patient and clinicians. Designing a real system of care will require a combination of technology, process, and people. Jim Champy is a consultant and author.

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Health Care Champy Information Technology Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change.

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Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

And one look at the trade deficit ($558 billion in 2011) clearly indicates we don't have as much as our foreign competitors to sell in return. Sure, with improvements in information technology and communication, some services are becoming more tradable and that creates opportunities for the U.S. But let's not kid ourselves.

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Health Care Biotechnology Industry Policies 9

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.

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Health Care Incentives Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In the December 18, 2011 edition of the New York Times , Thomas L. Friedman wrote about the great unraveling of traditional leadership across the globe: The main driver, I believe, is the merger of globalization and the Information Technology revolution. of LRN and the author of the book “ How.”

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Leadership Information Technology Bottom-up Globalization 106

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. The leading companies in online search, social media, and e-commerce are all based in one or the other of these two regions. Winner-take-all economics favored the companies in the U.S. Insight Center.

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