Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Moving from a world in the 1960s and beyond to present day, we need to change our thinking from an individual basis to a community – or tribal approach So interestingly in a modern technological society, maybe we need to start to learn from our cave dwelling forefathers. Chapter 4 – Idendity and the market. Worth a Read?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

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Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. In the nineteenth century it was political activists and radical social theorists such as Marx who held out the promise that new technology was creating a new world. Its scribblers aren't in "a garret somewhere."

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. In dollar terms, small players—defined as those with sales less than $1 billion—grabbed approximately $15 billion in sales from their larger peers between 2012 and 2017. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Price competition hurts. P&G should follow suit.

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Brand Retail Incubator Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are.

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Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But recent technological advances and new business models are now allowing nimble players to compete and provide consumers with cost-saving alternatives. In the case of distributed energy, various financing options let consumers save in a number of ways. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Top-tier thinkers from data science, business, finance, and the digital world are coming together to find new solutions. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

On May 24, 2012, Goldman Sachs did something it had never done in its venerable 143-year history. For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. without any compliance process or technology in place.". Adopting technology that keeps pace with regulatory requirements is equally important.

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Could technology help? Alternatively, it could be that because of behavioral biases, management is not able to select effective directors as well as an algorithm.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. How did we get here?

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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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Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

But where we've lost the plot is that we only demand — and manage — a return on financial capital. We will also convene a forum for CEOs and accountants to discuss and develop large-scale solutions for finance and reporting and are exploring the possibility of developing a world-class training program for CFOs on sustainability.

Social Capital 12

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. It was co-hosted by the Minister of Technology and included ministers from the cabinet charged with meeting the Grand Challenges IBM identified. It also demands senior management and board involvement.

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Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

More people have mobile money accounts than bank accounts in at least nine African countries, up from four in 2012. And cellular technology is leading the way. Finance Global business Technology' And the continent as a whole leads the world in the adoption of financial services on the mobile platform.

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Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

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.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. First, as shown by a recent analysis of 32 technology firms, the personality of CEOs shapes the culture of the organization. million in severance. million.

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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. Workers in engineering, IT, business development, sales, finance, marketing, and legal services are most likely to receive compensation for moving. But if employers are willing to make (even pay for) distant hires, who are they hiring?

Health Care 13

Health Care Engineering Skills Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Such rules rest on the premise that if we can just structure the board properly, management misconduct can largely be prevented. GE states, “The primary role of GE’s Board of Directors is to oversee how management serves the interests of shareowners and other stakeholders.”

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Company Committee CEO Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become. But I haven’t.

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Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. We should also question the assumption that investor preference for quick returns limits managers’ ability to invest in the future.

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Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In 2012 only about 21% (420,000) of the 2,000,000 stay-at-home fathers in the U.S. It is impossible to overstate how these technological developments have expanded the choices available to many working couples. I got used to my husband managing an awesome array of details at home. It’s a small club.

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Rogers Career Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The examples below seem to suggest that a company must stay true to its DNA, but has a lot of room to express that DNA in new ways whether in external strategy or internal management. ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. The women we coach who manage to sustain and fuel their ambition amid so many mixed messages use two tools.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In a 2012 poll of 1,600 sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts, 81% saw activists as central to further progress in the environmental agenda. Breakthrough Finance. "Biology must move from the design table to the Board table," we were told by Janine Benyus, co-founder of consultancy Biomimicry 3.8.

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EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. After the recession, for instance, one large lender made a practice of looking for “rehab” customers whose credit suffered in the downturn but who had since managed to achieve more stable incomes.

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Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. hospitals from treating Medicare patients escalated sharply in 2012, when Congress included Medicare in its budget sequester, and they have remained high since. Tighten the purchase and use of medical technology. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. The result : by late March 2012, Draw Something had 15 million daily players and was the Apple AppStore's #1 word game in 84 countries. The Invisible Children, Inc. Emergent, yes.

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