Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

IT management risks losing control over enterprise technologies because in a fast-paced business world, teams — unwilling to wait for IT to rollout official solutions — solve their own needs quickly by resorting to cloud-based, consumer tools to manage projects and share information.

Company 8

Company ROI Resistance Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

As I described in my 2014 and 2015 reports, for two years running, BYOD existed in over half the 300 companies surveyed: 35% of organizations officially allowed it and 20% did not officially allow it but acknowledged its existence. It’s also more common among the high performers in that category.

Trends 8

Trends Telecommunications Survey Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Their number one answer: employee resistance. Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. About half of the firms that accepted this offer adopted the technology in the next six months. We asked owners why not.

Policies 8

Policies Technology Bottom-up Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Other research suggests, however, that Millennials seem to find technology stressful. Surveys have shown that technology is causing us all — Millennials, Gen Xers, Boomers — more stress. But in technology’s absence, we tend to feel afraid. What is the cause of this stress?

Stress 8

Stress Short-term Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

All that is true, or least should be so, but companies are also forever having to reinvent themselves — IBM, Nucor, and Wipro bear only the faintest resemblance to their founding forms — and boards ought to be at the forefront of those transformations, not rearguard or resistant. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

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. A couple of years ago, an Indian data science start-up approached me to hire them for my academic research.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

Consider the 2014 attack on Target, which caused an estimated $162 million in damages. Attackers will take the path of least resistance to the biggest possible payoff. According to our research , over 60% of reported attacks on publicly traded U.S. The supplier was a small, privately held HVAC company called Fazio.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Management Metrics Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

When people sign up for Omada’s offering, they receive a wireless, digital bathroom scale, pedometer, resistance band, and tape measure. Customers are also paired with health coaches through a smartphone app who help guide them through health and wellness decisions throughout their day.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

And cellular technology is leading the way. Adoption of these services is still unevenly distributed, as people resist switching from the familiar and flexible interpersonal transactions to electronic ones. Finance Global business Technology' “Transparency and consistency in transaction costs have a lot to do with this.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Danaher designs, manufactures, and markets industrial and consumer products in industries including dental, industrial technologies, environmental, and life science and diagnostics, and has distinguished itself by its outstanding shareholder return and its focus on continual improvement, across all its businesses.

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. One area of focus: how technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality will be able help consumers visualize the end result of their home improvement projects. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Though none of these tweaks can be claimed to be a technological breakthrough, they have collectively helped Grab win over local consumers. Historically, some platforms haven’t embraced localization because the allure of quick scaling was too much to resist. But network effects don’t negate the importance of customization.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Satya Nadella, for instance, joined Microsoft in 1992 and worked his way up to running its cloud computing effort, building that business unit into a viable new growth platform before becoming CEO, in 2014. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. That doesn’t work for a host of practical reasons.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” Consider some of the most significant ones we found when we analyzed the 2014 landscape.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. One of us, Arvind Gupta, is head of technology for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party, and has been for the past seven years.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. You want to get as close to perfection in some of these technologies as possible, but the goal also has to be progress, not just perfection.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. But international mergers are not without resistance, as PPG found this year in its failed bid for Akzo Nobel , and as the Chinese government pulled up barriers this year to acquisitions abroad by Chinese firms.

Automotive 8

Automotive Retail Restructuring Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

In June 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX, its new online education initiative. When students asked a question on the platform, we resisted the urge to jump in, instead leaving it to peers to do so. Collaboration Technology Business education' Social learning was one the major bets we made at HBX. But it should.

Participative 8

Participative Education Learning-by-Doing Course 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

In 2014, are we witnessing a trickle-down effect? Last year, Germany had a slight increase in the number of female executives among its top compani es , which are fiercely resisting the fast-spreading EU quota legislation (from 6% to 9%). Yet we’re told the pipeline is getting stronger. Germany: Still tough for a working gal.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Diversity Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

resistance to the AIIB is founded on rational principles. China Business Council report that they anticipate double-digit revenue expansion in China, when the study was done in 2014. technology and communications companies. After having failed to stop its allies from joining the AIIB, the U.S. The argument for U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015. There are a lot of people that try to resist it, but the underlying economics will basically overpower the resistance.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

” In the book, I warned that technology might actually destroy more jobs than it was creating. It appears that the biggest culprit is digital technologies themselves. Technology is also the foundation of new species of businesses that are capable of wiping out entire industries. Young workers are taking the biggest hit.

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) The technology sector takes the lead. The technology sector has been the front-runner in terms of speaking out on these five issues. When governmental policy undercuts such values, companies feel obligated to speak up.

CEO 8

CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Advisory firm IDC predicts that by 2014 there will have been over 76 billion mobile apps downloaded resulting in an app economy worth an estimated thirty five billion in the same year. But mobility changes with context: cultures incorporate mobile technologies differently.

Download 17

Download Content Follow-up Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Advisory firm IDC predicts that by 2014 there will have been over 76 billion mobile apps downloaded resulting in an app economy worth an estimated thirty five billion in the same year. But mobility changes with context: cultures incorporate mobile technologies differently.

Download 15

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