Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This webcast shows Bjarne Wig’s presentation, The Transformation of Learning, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. … Faced with these fabulous opportunities that have opened up thanks to new technology, we are seeing many educational institutions being hopelessly left behind. Guest post by John Hunter.

Deming 31

Deming Education Seminar System 31

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Related: Deming Podcast with Fred Wambier and Kelly Allan On Applying Deming’s Ideas at Finishing Technology – Paula Marshall’s Presentation at Our 2015 Conference on Using Deming’s Ideas at The Bama Companies – Deming Podcast with Dick Steele, Chairman of Peaker Services.

Deming 28

Deming Engineering CEO System 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? What People Are Really Doing When They’re on a Conference Call. Leadership & Managing people Information & technology' How Old Are Silicon Valley’s Top Founders?

Management 10

Management Retail Information Technology Advice 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. In radiology such technology will augment human competence in image recognition.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Health Care Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

One of the big reasons is that security businesses tend to look for people with traditional technology credentials — college degrees in tech fields, for example. hiring in cybersecurity since 2015 has consisted of new collar professionals. Of course, cutting-edge technology is going to be at the center of these new collar jobs.

Education 12

Education How To Industry Career 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

days of vacation in 2015. In 2015 the unemployment rate was 5.3% (it was 9.7% in 1982), and yet 2015 had one of the lowest averages of time off taken in the past 30 years: 16.2 (A 24-month moving average was used to eliminate short-term fluctuations in the data.) days) in 2000, but they took only 16.2 days of vacation.

Stress 8

Stress ROI Short-term Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

National Infrastructure Week, May 11-15, should mark the acceleration of giving entrepreneurs and innovators a prominent seat at the table, adding technology opportunities to solve America’s infrastructure problems. In the case of the FAA and mobile technology, the slow-moving agency is trying its best to be nimbler.

Transportation 8

Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Most conference evaluation forms are lightweight and ask for surface rankings.rather than for nuggets of knowledge learned. They embrace technology, rather than ideas and concepts. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. That It's Supposed to Be Popular. Workplace literacy. Understand and celebrate diversity.

Education 50

Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. Essential Experts.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

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). Although the CTA produces the world’s largest trade show, drawing more than 170,000 people in 2015, its new name has attracted little comment.

Brand 8

Brand Industry Health Care Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Tyson (Kaiser Permanente, healthcare), Omar Ishrak (Medtronic, medical technology), Sallie Krawcheck (Ellevest, investing), Kathryn Maher (Wikimedia, encyclopedia), John Rogers (Ariel Investments, financial services). Many of the leaders I interviewed also speak at conferences about diversity and write openly about its importance.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2013

SAP has refocused its large and growing inside sales team towards working with channel partners, rather than directly with customers, as part of a strategic initiative aimed at increasing channel sales to 40% of the company''s total sales by 2015. For field salespeople, this means developing new technology and communication competencies.

B2B 8

B2B Power Market Segmentation Customer Intimacy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C

Efficiency 11

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) “Things will not stay the same at GE.”

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

The technological advances of the digital age have allowed the global workforce to be better connected, more collaborative, and have greater personal impact than ever before. Last month, I attended ATD’s global conference in Orlando, Fla., Clearly, workplaces are now optimized for high levels of workforce engagement. Or are they?

Management 8

Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. Reminiscent of a Starbucks, the storefront includes a coffee bar, a conference table in an open area, and a couple of meeting rooms. That’s an enormous mistake.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

According to the new 2015 Work-Life Fit survey , nine out of 10 U.S. Yet, even though the technology has been steadily improving, we’re still stuck in the 1990s when it comes to some outdated practices. Make it a practice for the conference lines to be open 10 minutes early.

Participative 8

Participative Fashion Team Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The American climate activists who have flocked to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week tend to have one thing in common: many own the “it” car for their tribe, the VW Jetta Wagon TDI. At 49 MPG, the Jetta does better than many hybrids, and drives German, too.

PPM 8

PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

While a digital fast may be useful in identifying where you want less technology in your life, it’s less likely to show you where technology is working well for you — or where it could work even better.

Review 8

Review Media Software Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Your CHRO thinks of email as modern technology. Already 35% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, born after 1977, and they will comprise nearly 50% of the workforce by 2015. Last year I was at an HR conference where someone asked "What is YouTube?") Does your CHRO use a smart phone?

Metrics 14

Metrics Human Resources Attrition CEO 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Standing on stage on September 9, 2014 at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook announced, “We’ve created an entirely new payment process, and we called it Apple Pay.” Each of these mobile payment schemes relied on technology that only worked at merchants that had NFC terminals.

Retail 8

Retail Business Model Press Release Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Sites like Delicious, Flickr and 43Things were ushering in the new phenomenon of “user-generated content,” and technologies like RSS and tagging were providing new ways for regular web users to organize and share content. Is that still the right advice in 2015?

Fashion 8

Fashion Blog Audience Real Estate 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2002 to 7.2

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

Twenty years later, as an executive coach, work-life sustainability is a prominent issue that my clients grapple with, as they face the ever-higher work demands that have come with advances in technology. One client in San Francisco who works with a fast-growing tech company shared that she gets up at 4 a.m. “Is this normal?

Team 11

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Additionally, there’s a close correlation between a country’s English proficiency and its high-technology exports, such as computers and scientific instruments. We see a similar pattern when we run the English proficiency scores against the 2015 Global Innovation Index.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Globalization Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The idea for this research germinated when I spoke at the WorkHuman conference in 2015 alongside Adam Grant , Arianna Huffington and Rob Lowe , who despite being experts in different fields, had a consistent message: We need to find effective, scalable solutions to create a positive and engaged workforce. Insight Center.

ROI 8

ROI Customer Loyalty Loyalty Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In particular, we see several interesting developments: Technology-supported peer learning is disrupting the old paradigm. Training magazine reported that 2015 training expenditures were approximately $70 billion dollars , a 14% increase from 2014. A growing percentage of this investment supports peer learning.

Agility 8

Agility Development Workshop Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Does this create pressure to adopt the same technology or the same processes? We had a conference here yesterday of 250 technical people from the various divisions around Disney. Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015.

Creativity 9

Creativity Film Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. between 2011 and 2015 found that most were confined to the wealthiest 20% of zip codes in the country. In the U.S.,

Class 9

Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. JC Penney spent no money on television advertising during the 2015 Super Bowl, yet its “mittens” campaign was one of the most watched. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 10

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When Kellogg’s CEO, John Bryant, spoke at the Paris meeting, in December 2015, he told the assembled executives and diplomats that addressing climate change was “mission critical” for the company. (I I mean actual extreme weather and climate change. These things are not theoretical and are costing business and society today.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8