Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

Sandy fed me some support data from their recently published IBM’s 2014 Business Tech Trends Report. The report reveals that previously emerging trends like Big Data and analytics, cloud, mobile, and social are now being implemented across corporate enterprise beyond just experimentation and wait-and-see.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

This means a leader must be well informed about emerging trends and developments in multiple areas that affect the business. Taking the same set of facts available to IBM, he constructed a vastly different narrative anticipating that technological advances would continuously drive down the cost of hardware. Evoking a Mood.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2014

One of the major STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) debates currently underway today in the United States revolves around whether or not there is, in fact, a STEM workforce shortage in the country. Several trends emerged in the survey. Companies Recognize the Need for Programs to Develop and Attract STEM Talent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In many ways, app developers, like popular consumer brands in a supermarket, are locked in a fight for two scarce resources: consumer attention and shelf space. Overall, over 20,000 app developers and companies will have made over $100,000 in revenues — or $8,333 per month — from their apps in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. Some firms are investing heavily in R&D to expand their technological capabilities, while others don’t make that investment and so fall further behind.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

The resulting lessons will be critical to life science companies worldwide as the aging trend prevalent in Japan expands to other nations. percent of the 2014 global medical device market—behind the U.S. These and other trends are combining with specific law changes that speed regulatory approval in Japan.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

We examined their automation potential today — what’s possible by adapting demonstrated technologies — as well as the potential similarities and differences in how automation could take hold in the future. trillion in wages are associated with activities that are automatable with current technology. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. ” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This plot suggests that the first quarter is pretty mundane; except for 2014, performance is tightly contained in a 91 to 93 band. There were several huge snowstorms last year, so 2014 was an anomaly.” 2014 is the new normal. We started a new trend in 2014 and should expect to see similar gains in 1Q15.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using our robust data archive system which captures electronic health record, medical and prescription claims, and other information, we create dashboard displays for use by leadership, operational teams, and clinicians to reveal population-level trends and identify patients and clinicians for targeted interventions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe. ” When in Doubt, Go Modular.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Since mid-2014, against the U.S. Since mid-2014, against the U.S. However, today’s events are not necessarily a good guide to longer-term trends. First, look at developments in the global economy. This means that, even in 2015, emerging markets will grow at twice the pace of developed markets. While the U.S.

Marketing 8

Marketing Depreciation Globalization Analysis 8

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. Of course, these national aggregate trends could be misleading, so we use the richness of the job posting data to analyze the relationship at the state and county levels.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Books, online courses, MOOCs, professional development programs, podcasts, and other resources have never been more abundant or accessible, making it easier than ever to make a habit of lifelong learning. Every day, each of us is offered the opportunity to pursue intellectual development in ways that are tailored to our learning style.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

This globality phenomenon is itself surprisingly global: the Berlin and Beijing startup scenes, for example, appear almost as technologically transnational as Boston’s and the Bay Area’s. from 2012 to 2014. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Does this frighten IP attorneys?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2014 the Medicare fee-for-service program spent $173 billion on 9.7 But the value of these technologies remains poorly understood. The relentless pace of technology has produced numerous products and services to monitor patients at home, but few have been tightly integrated with alternative care models.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. But from 2000 to 2014, the population grew 2.4 Indeed, there are simply fewer jobs to go around these days.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

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Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

While working as a director of learning and organization development at Google, eBay and J.P. of all emotional health cases in Employee Assistance Programs in 2014, up from 55.2% So how can we develop resilience and stay motivated in the face of chronic negative stress and constantly increasing demands, complexity and change?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2016

You might be surprised to learn that the Consumer Electronics Association is now called the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). This understated-but-safe approach was also used by the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD) when it rebranded to the Association for Talent Development (ATD) in 2014.

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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. But before distributed energy can make a greater impact, more comprehensive energy management platforms must be developed. from 2012 through 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Soon after, when Khan began tutoring his niece in mathematics while working at a hedge fund, he hit upon the idea of developing short video tutorials on YouTube.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Research has shown that executives with social CEOs say their CEOs’ social media presence makes them feel inspired (52%), technologically advanced (46%), and proud (41%). This represents a two-fold surge in CEO website visibility since 2010 (32%), reflecting the larger trend of companies becoming self-publishers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

But technology makes it easier and simpler for more organizations to try to get away with profitable but irritating little nicks and customer scrapes. Last year it began boosting the rank of ‘mobile friendly’ websites , and in 2014, it began boosting the rank of sites with encryption as well.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Between 2000 and 2014, the TELUS brand grew in value from a few hundred million dollars to $4.3 But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products. billion, and its revenues increased from $6.4 billion to $11.7 Read the rest of the series here.

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Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The transition to a global digital economy in 2014 was sporadic – brisk in some countries, choppy in others. To understand more about these types of changes around the world, we developed an “index” to identify how a group of countries stack up against each other in terms of readiness for a digital economy.

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Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In fact, today’s oil prices that we think of as low are actually near the real average price of a barrel of oil for the last 150 years: $35 (2014 US dollar reference year). And it would take them as long as 5 to 10 years to explore, develop, and then bring production to market after investing billions of dollars into new fields.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

And cellular technology is leading the way. These trends are not limited to customers. And South African start-up Nomanini has developed a small portable PoS terminal specifically designed for the micropayments – such as to buy a bus ticket – prevalent in the informal economy. Finance Global business Technology'

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Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Three trends characterize the environment within which global businesses must contend: rising trade protectionism and a concomitant fall in global trade volumes, declining cross border capital flows, and mounting regulatory requirements. And in 2014, Pfizer, the U.S. This year, for example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. The move scared away foreign investors, starving Zimbabwe of much-needed capital – a trend that was exacerbated by U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. The same goes for technology.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

When it comes to understanding the pace of global digital evolution , the digital growth of developed countries usually has little to tell us about the digital future of developing ones. While other ASEAN countries have online users, they aren’t using that technology to shop or do business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

High-profile cyberattacks — ranging from the one suffered by Sony Pictures in 2014 to the global ransomware attacks that occurred last May and June — highlight the huge financial and reputational stakes. Outside cybersecurity experts can help develop the plan.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Gamification takes the essence of games — attributes such as fun, play, transparency, design and competition — and applies these to a range of real-world processes inside an organization, including learning & development. The technology research firm Gartner , Inc. Deloitte is well on its way to staying ahead of the trend.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The core project team, which meets bimonthly, comprises clinical (RN, PA, physician), administrative, research, and quality representatives from plastic and oral surgery, as well as representatives from otolaryngology, and information technology. To date, that investment has largely been in IT development.

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