Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2014

Determining those managerial, behavioral, environmental, programmatic, and technological factors driving overall outcomes is both an art and a science. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Identifying Precursor Indicators.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. And many diversity programs fail. I asked three questions: Why do you care about diversity?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity. The numbers were grim.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Digital technology is full of paradox, yet we often tend to under-emphasize or even ignore the paradoxes — often looking at either technology’s problems or its promises, rarely examining both at the same time. But it’s only when we explore both that we gain new insight into what will truly help us harness technology’s economic value.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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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. Diversion of STEM degree holders away from traditional STEM jobs is a real problem for STEM companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. So in this quarterly-earnings-obsessed world, it’s a brave and unusual move. And it’s also good business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012. But as wearable and mobile technology becomes more attuned to our moods, will that still be true?

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

In 2014 I presented a paper at the 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar on the topic of “ Understanding and Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare.” The cycle continues as diversity of ideas starts a new formation phase. I’m still hopeful, now more than ever. Here’s a simple example.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

As organizations collect increasingly large and diverse data sets, the demand for skilled data scientists will continue to rise. In traditional data warehousing environments, IT teams structure data and design schemas when the data is loaded into the warehouse,and are then largely responsible for ensuring strict data quality rules.

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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. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Innovation Centers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

While most of us were still re-winding the tapes in our VCRs, brilliant minds were coming up with today’s technological advances. The private sector also has plenty of skin in the game, especially when profit depends on secure technology, and many have chosen to set up shop in Arizona. After leasing the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

That’s changing, as architects and health care organizations come together to incorporate principles of social design into the built health care environment. In 2014, Murphy made a presentation on the history of hospital design at Ariadne Labs. Previous studies looked only at room scale, not unit scale.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a business environment that is changing faster and becoming more uncertain and complex almost by the day, it’s never been more important to choose the right approach to strategy. Five Strategy Environments. Your environment dictates your approach to strategy. Should you aim to be big or fast?

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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. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. The first mistake executives can make in the current environment is to try to sustain historic levels of revenue growth and profitability.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

Before the 2014 graduates embark on their collective journey into workplaces still struggling to adapt to changing demographics, senior generations would benefit by heeding advice from the Millennials’ perspective. Do not expect this exceptionally large, diverse, and educated young generation to walk into your workplace and assimilate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

And we counted 10 local exits in 2014. A hospitable environment. Ultimately dubbed the Technology Incubation Scheme (in Singapore, a scheme is a good thing), the program helped bring a flood of diverse investors into the country by offering to put up 85% of the capital in a start-up when investors put in 15%.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

In June 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX, its new online education initiative. Online collaboration can overcome certain biases and behaviors that arise in face-to-face environments. Collaboration Technology Business education' Let an expert intervene, and you could undermine collaboration itself. But it should.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

By now, we’ve all heard about the low numbers of American women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). A 2014 study found that both men and women were twice as likely to hire a man for a job that required math. Gender Race Diversity' But that’s not convincing. Phillips and Erika V.

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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. Site visit teams were diverse and representative of major Partners institutions and stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The unpredictability of our current political environment, in the U.S. Some of the insights we learned offer guidelines for how CEOs should act to preserve their companies’ reputations in today’s highly politicized environment. In today’s environment, CEOs may find themselves under pressure to speak out on an issue.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Second, many companies have invested substantial time and money in establishing uncompromising core values such as diversity and inclusion. For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) The technology sector takes the lead. CEOs (usually) do the talking themselves.

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