Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. At the heart of every employee is talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Gerd Gigerenzer , director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, has been making the case for decades that heuristics often outperform statistical models.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. 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 Washington, business as usual.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

We don’t declare victory when a great model or application is developed – only when it’s being used to improve business performance and create new value. 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

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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. These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. Large-scale data on management has been virtually nonexistent, at least until recently. Companies with higher management scores were also more likely to expand and less likely to go out of business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. The custom IT solution developed for us takes into account the way we provide care to expectant mothers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. 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

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The latest statistics from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show a 54% drop in reported incidents during the first half of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011, some of which is certainly attributable to improved analytics. We're starting to develop genuine predictive models. Visualization is key.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The latest statistics from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) show a 54% drop in reported incidents during the first half of 2012 as compared to the same period in 2011, some of which is certainly attributable to improved analytics. We're starting to develop genuine predictive models. Visualization is key.

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Trends Tactics Document Travel 16

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. It’s an unrelenting focus on developing the best leaders at every level of your enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We could easily fit Enterprise 2.0 , cloud computing , and lots of other recent developments into the network phase, but I think we'd be missing something if we did so. It became clear to me as I watched the digital economy in 2010 that we had passed a tipping point and moved into a new age of technology use. Technology Delight.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

A number of people noted that Nobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman’s work, nicely summarized in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow , influenced their thinking a great deal. What’s really interesting, though, is that the two of them ended up in complete agreement about the conditions required for good intuition to develop.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 The BHDP system has allowed the Army to develop new ways of examining patients and improving the quality of care for key diseases such as PTSD and major depressive disorder. Data on outcomes can be used to develop a comprehensive picture of a health system’s performance. million to 3.3

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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. These moves mean that there will be an emphasis on developing killer apps, as opposed to lame phones fielded to eke out incremental revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. As the Mayo Clinic Care Network was developed, we decided to include only those knowledge-sharing tools and clinical services that were tried and tested internally at Mayo Clinic. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Even what appears to be a small investment risk can turn into a big one, especially when information technology comes into play. Martig was a seasoned CFO with years of forecasting experience in technology firms. By 2011, the company revenues were $86 million, and it filed for its own public stock offering.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. Here’s where the problem has become especially acute for information technology inventions such as smartphones and tablets. On the sped-up clock of technological innovation, even a decade of smartphone patent crusades could prove devastating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Unfortunately, existing methods of facilitating patient decision-making fail to give patients all the information they need. Since 2011, we have worked with a large IT vendor and others to build a tool that is more advanced than the SPORT tool, which we intend to make available globally, not just to our own patients.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

So far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. Because economic data simply don't support the view that we live in a flat, connected world, even if we are technologically connected with everyone, everywhere, all of the time. Global Prosperity and How to Achieve it (HBR Press, 2011). But I prefer to think of it as globaloney.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

million Medicare beneficiaries who filled at least two opioid prescriptions in 2011, 34% received prescriptions from two providers, 14% from three providers, and 12% from four or more providers. The most notable effort to date has been the widespread development of PDMPs, which are now in place in 49 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

That's the moment — and we have them more frequently as innovative technologies accelerate their entry into the market — when the creepy factor comes into play. When consumers objected to how these services were perceived to be using information, the companies modified their practices or canceled the service altogether.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

In 2011 the John S and James L Knight Foundation invested $500,000 to expand the Awesome Foundation's model to Detroit. For years, a small group of crisis responders from nonprofits and the federal government had been meeting for coffee in Washington, DC and talking about how technology could facilitate disaster response.

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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. Option #1: Uphold the status quo. It's about protecting intellectual property.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Organizations such as Amazon, IBM, Salesforce.com, Facebook, and Google, have all engaged in substantial API “releases” that permit developers to access information so they can build new applications or businesses. APIs are programming routines or protocols that allow software applications to share data.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Designing a real system of care will require a combination of technology, process, and people. Information technology will be the great enabler of change - connecting multiple care givers, providing a portable health care record, and eventually providing the information required to link treatments to outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

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. Customers Information & technology Marketing' Starbucks, on the other hand, has turned it into a hub for competitive advantage. Will you be a loser, laggard, or leader?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

A 2011 study of teaching practices at the University of Texas at Austin indicated that UT Austin alone potentially could save $266 million a year if it could get half its professors to be as productive in teaching as the top 20%, fire its least productive faculty, and shift their small workload to other professors.

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

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

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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. The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Photo courtesy of Apple.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Last year, we established a values-based care team, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary practice variation by developing evidence-based care paths across diseases and to improve comprehensive care coordination so that patients move seamlessly through the system, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits. percent in 1960.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. Clearly, most of these tools won’t survive.

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