Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

My good friend, Sandy Carter, is one of IBM’s General Managers, and their social selling evangelist. Sandy fed me some support data from their recently published IBM’s 2014 Business Tech Trends Report. In short, pacesetters use technology for the competitive advantage and the results are more profitable business outcomes.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Those numbers are up from 47% in 2014 and 48% in 2015. This growing trend has some retailers with heavy in-store business models shaking in their boots. Of more than 5,000 consumers surveyed, 51% shared that their purchases are predominately completed through an e-commerce site as opposed to a physical location.

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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

JUNE 19, 2015

My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. The Port of Houston, 100th in 2014. The Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key, 200th in 2014. Discern the differences between trends and fads. Technology is but one tool of the trade.

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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. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. One project is a remote intensive-care patient management program. By country, Japan had 9.1 and ahead of Germany.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. ” For a little more nuance on the insourcing trend, read Brad Power on GE. Manufacturing and Insourcing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? There were several huge snowstorms last year, so 2014 was an anomaly.”

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

By combining data-driven assessments, targeted engagement of high prescribers, EHR-based interventions, and pharmacist support in care management, Geisinger has dramatically reduced opioid prescribing. In addition to developing programs on pain-management for our broad clinician population, we targeted a focused group of high prescribers.

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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. Keurig’s founders started from scratch when they created their proprietary coffeemaker and K-cup technology. was designed to protect the company’s earlier K-Cup technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

They may undergo tests and procedures that are designed to better characterize and manage complications of chronic conditions rather than prevent or treat them. In 2014 the Medicare fee-for-service program spent $173 billion on 9.7 But the value of these technologies remains poorly understood. million Medicare hospitalizations.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Stop playing catch-up with technology. I’ve worked to keep up with changes in technology, specifically sales technology, by talking with my peers and always being open to trying new things that others recommend. But the date on it was from 2014. But Morgan takes a different approach. Get with the times.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. And so Harry’s has been growing 35% year-on-year between 2014 to 2016, three times faster than the industry average , commanding 9% of all online razor sales. Penney, and Barnes & Noble. Maxx and Marshalls—which compete aggressively on price.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Field Sales Revenue Trends.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

million flight bookings in 2014. Some of these trends can be explained. Typical technology usage patterns could be another explanation. But what about when planning travel? Do gender differences show up there, and if so, how? To answer these questions, we examined a database of 6.4 About two days, to be exact.

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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. New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. But back to the insurers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. But sometimes, executives manage to overcome all of these structural challenges and push the right types of ideas regardless of the barriers. Many of the reasons for this are well documented.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The results of the 2014 survey — to which 89 U.S.-based Another indication that near-shoring is accelerating is the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology). While 33.6% companies responded that they were “definitively” planning to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Projects not directly related to those activities never got serious resource or management attention. Yet in five years the only new thing Apple managed to get out the door is the Watch.

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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. New energy management software can also help identify consumption inefficiency and automate electricity usage when necessary by collecting site-specific energy data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Factors that lead to resilience include optimism; the ability to stay balanced and manage strong or difficult emotions; a sense of safety and a strong social support system. It’s important to understand and manage some of the factors that cause us to feel so overwhelmed and stressed at work. Sponsored by SoFi.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. Today, managers add value by brokering with people, not by presiding over empires.”. Between 2000 and 2014, the TELUS brand grew in value from a few hundred million dollars to $4.3

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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

JUNE 26, 2015

Coinciding with this is recent discussion in the business media that since “work” no longer adheres to the traditional 9-5, and technology allows us to be connected anywhere and everywhere, perhaps those longer work hours should be reconciled with more time off. People are usually still expected to be available.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Outside of universities, ongoing learning and skill development is essential to surviving economic and technological disruption. In 2014 a CBRE report estimated that 50% of jobs would be redundant by 2025 due to technological innovation. Trends including AI, robotics, and offshoring mean constant shifts in the nature of work.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses. For example, one celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached $4 billion in revenues.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

And cellular technology is leading the way. These trends are not limited to customers. They set up a digital payment network and mechanism for a merchant to accept digital payment, and then they offer Business OS tools to manage everything from analytics to credit to marketing to supplier payments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

trillion in 2014 alone. Corporations generate a large share of internet traffic through private networks used to share information and manage their international operations. But now digital technologies allow companies to globalize in a leaner and less capital-intensive way.

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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. The regulatory landscape is increasingly shifting and, at times, conflicting at local, national, and international levels.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2015

These include such superstars on Fortune’s 2014 list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in global business as Chandra Kochbar of India’s ICICI Bank, Chua Sock Koong of Singapore Telecommunications, and Zhang Xin of SOHO China. “Even in rural India, women manage the households and pay the bills,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

"Training is a funny thing," James Sanders, Manager of Innovation at Deloitte Consulting, told me recently. "No The technology research firm Gartner , Inc. billion business by 2016, and 70 percent of Global 2000 businesses will be managing at least one "gamified" application or system by 2014. How will you track success?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The move scared away foreign investors, starving Zimbabwe of much-needed capital – a trend that was exacerbated by U.S. For example, after opening its first store in 2014, fast-food chain KFC recently opened its fifth branch in the country. and EU sanctions in response to the government’s mounting human rights abuses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

For starters, be empirical and always be sure you’re working with the fullest data set possible when making judgments and discerning trends. The rhymes may be about social patterns, the impact of technology, or how nations tend to adapt. 2014 is nearly upon us. Managing uncertainty Strategy The Future of Management'

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