Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. This veritable Big Bang delivers a plethora of examples so great in number, only a computer could manage to learn from them. These predicaments matter. Introducing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online. No strategy is static.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. Bad news, right? But I'm not certain such surveys tell the whole story.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Today it's rare to find a CEO who won't acknowledge the impact digital technology is having on their business. In a digitally driven economy, the preferred way for everyone to interact with a company is through internet technologies, such as a company's website, mobile interface, or Twitter feed.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Deming Lecture at the 2012 ASA Joint – Quality Improvement: From Autos and Chips to Nano and Bio” by Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology. I discussed Deming and DoE a bit in a previous post: Statistical Techniques Allow Management to do a Better Job (about a paper Dr. Deming wrote).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Most companies have been slow to react.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early weeks we learn that our product won’t stand up to the sanitation requirements of the industry and we’re presented with real engineering problems in design and materials, but these are problems we know how to solve. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

was the joyous cry that rang out across the central quad at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the night of August 5, 2012. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. Morning Star is one of the world's leading processors of tomatoes and one of the most progressive models of a self-managed enterprise. Story by Jim Lavoie. Story by Frédéric Leconte.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era. Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. was designed to protect the company’s earlier K-Cup technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. The business media have had no shortage of these. And only 15% said digital was helping them to create new business models.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images. They are modeling scientists.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. In 2012, according to U.S. Redesign processes with sales tasks, not the technology, in mind. The role of data is not to make a manager sound "analytical."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% Some are skeptical about whether technology can continue to deliver the rapid productivity gains it did in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Tapping into this talent has implications for HR management, calling for new approaches to screening talent, including sourcing, selection, and role definition. Across the U.S., Sourcing for Commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In December 2012 and January of this year, Tata Consultancy Services surveyed 1,217 executives from large companies (revenue of more than $1 billion) in a dozen global industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The Big Data wars are hardly limited to the media industry. million apiece on it last year.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. While organizational culture issues took center-stage, the agency’s antiquated systems for personnel management, appointment booking, and medical histories probably made things worse. Before retiring in 2012, it was a balancing act he knew well.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. But Forus placed its bets on the lower cost CEMOS technology which the mobile phone industry embraced. In 2012, Dinesh Seemakurty, a bio-medical engineering student at University of Southern California was visiting India. His life was set.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

As a fresh graduate in engineering, I was on my way to Bangalore , which was fast becoming the Silicon Valley of India, to look for a job. The Indian job market was growing significantly because of an influx of positions in the technology sector. Now in 2012, almost ten years later, I have started a new job in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

On the morning of May 18, 2012, at precisely 11:05, Nasdaq planned to execute the first trade in in Facebook’s hotly anticipated initial public offering. With billions of dollars poised to change hands and the spotlight on, Nasdaq managers scrambled to diagnose the problem, dialing into an emergency conference call to troubleshoot.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

3M was awarded the US government''s highest award for innovation, the National Medal of Technology. Reporter Paul Lukas best expressed the resourcefulness of 3Mers: "A 3M customer identifies a problem, and a 3M engineer expresses confidence in being able to solve it. Richard Drew is just such an engineer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

When women start companies they quite naturally create more permeable and diverse management teams, having worked on gender diverse teams, or, conversely, having seen the pitfalls of being the token woman in a homogenous grouping. drop, from 2004 to 2009, in female engineers. There has also been a 5.2% It can be hired or bought.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

And 32 percent of employers reported they would be willing to pay to relocate new employees in 2012. Highly skilled workers — especially in health care, engineering, and IT — have fared the best during the recovery. Of workers who were laid off in 2011 and found new jobs, 20 percent relocated to a new city or state.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. For example, in 2012, Intel, TSMC, and Samsung — three large semiconductor manufacturers based in the U.S., Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

A worldwide scheme by thousands of business managers to manipulate public opinion seems far-fetched. The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure. They are even harder to manage. Why are skills sometimes hard to measure and to manage?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. Entrepreneurs and managers can actively seek to build such experiences by living abroad and systematically comparing what they observe in other markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. And is the key to success here the technology, or fundamental segmentation and buying-process criteria? are picking up steam.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Pre-sales Resources.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When his son, Hayden, was diagnosed with the disease, in 2009, Lane was a product manager at GE Energy. Like so many others living with diabetes care, he stayed awake late into the night managing his son’s blood sugar, checking and adjusting every few hours. That was enough for Lane. He left to pursue the ideas on his own.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Our 2012 survey, in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick & Struggles, of more than 1,000 corporate directors across the globe, found that only 48% of the boards had a formal process of determining the combination of skills and attributes required for their board and, therefore, for new directors.

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