Next Level Blog

JUNE 20, 2016

I’ll ask her out for lunch tomorrow, how about that?” Today, June 20, 2016, is our 29th wedding anniversary. People often ask us how we have such a great marriage and run a business together at the same time. ” Before I’d even thought it, I heard myself saying, “Bull$&!@!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 17, 2016

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” ” In order to chart the best way forward, you must understand emerging trends: what they are, what they aren’t, and how they operate.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

First in December 2016 in Phoenix where they learned from Alan Mulally as well as me. Doug Winnie – ActionCOACH #1 small business coach 2016. Magazine nominee, founder and CEO, Corent Technologies, author The 10x Innovation Revolution: Inspiring a Culture of Disruption and Entrepreneurship Within Any Organization.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 14, 2016

Know how to take appropriate action, or negotiate creatively? and how to supersede our brain to hear accurately (2 free chapters of What? Seller: I’d love to stop by and show you some of the features of our new CRM technology. We’ve got a pretty efficient technology that might work for you, but obviously now isn’t the time.

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Succession CRM Case Study Efficiency 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. Digital transformation transcends technology. How can companies thrive on these changes? No industry is immune.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. reduced instances of teams playing four games in five days by 26%. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency?

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Twitter replaced most-recent with most-important tweets when they introduced their algorithmic timeline in 2016. Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. Fourth, consciously decide how much human influence you want.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. ” Aim for the golden mean.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. It is shaping the new game of industrial businesses on a worldwide basis and showing other companies, regardless of their size, complexity, and history, how to proceed. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Voice-powered technologies such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana, are changing the way people shop, drive cars, and manage their homes. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Based on this event, IDHA began introducing voice technology with three discrete pilots: The intensive care unit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Read more from Korn Ferry: How to Develop Leaders Who Can Drive Strategic Change. November 2016).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In a landmark 2016 study Johns Hopkins researchers estimated that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from treatment-related mistakes, making medical error the third-leading cause of death in the United States. Though health care is still in the early stages of adopting AI and digital technologies, it is already making great strides.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. We need to be more like Oracle.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That means that 70% of acquisitions of firms in the technology sector over the past three years have been made by organizations outside of it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Predictive analytics , telemedicine , electronic health records — technology is rightly seen as a transformative force in health delivery. Addressing patients’ fears is important because fear can make an eye operation difficult or even impossible. Teacept/iStock. But it’s not the only one. on a 10-point scale.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In doing so, the company learned how to expand and enhance its core capabilities beyond its home market. Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In doing so, the company learned how to expand and enhance its core capabilities beyond its home market. Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do. The keys to customer experience excellence show companies how to succeed in the employee experience as well.

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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. So how do you keep them?

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Based on four years of global quantitative research, the book explores the tectonic shifts in consumer sentiment that have come about due to extreme technological immersion. This lack of trust extends into the world of technology, as well. How do brands successfully make this transition?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. What if disruption comes instead — as I outline in the April 2016 issue of HBR — from the supply side? How did it do this? In each case Facebook paid handsomely — but did little else.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Rather, executives make decisions about how to organize work, how to reward individuals for their labor, and where the boundaries of their firm should be. In aggregate, these decisions play an important role in determining how much each of us gets paid. Since that time, however, the U.S.

Marketing 8

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. How to Plan for Doing Business in Iran. Iran presents an important opportunity for multinational companies that operate in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according to reports submitted to the U.S. For an example of how to proceed, they can look to the financial services industry, where some of the most well-known examples of cyberattacks in the last decade have occurred.

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Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

In 2016 it was added as a standard care option at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Patients are trained in how to use this equipment. However, by optimizing current technology, OB Nest makes women active participants in their care and the wellness experience of pregnancy, while reducing the associated costs and time commitment.

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Mayo Health Care Information Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Companies and analysts are scrambling to figure out how to make privacy rules clear, protect user data, and evolve the business models that made them successful in the first place. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S., privacy laws.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Similar to how improvements in smartphones have shifted from increasing processor speed or screen resolution to focusing on better user experience, innovation in surgery has to shift from the technical or structural aspects to emphasizing how people, processes, and practices come together in the pursuit of patient safety.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

A winner will be selected in April 2016. The four finalists represent a mix of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, provider- and patient-facing innovations, and clinical and operational solutions. Click here to receive updates about this competition and the next Health Acceleration Challenge, which will begin in the spring.).

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Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Stitch Fix’s approach illustrates three lessons about how to combine human expertise with AI systems. When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate? Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. And it can’t rely solely on machines to do this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Members are guided on how to register for an online member portal, which provides access to email your doctor, refill prescriptions, make appointments, and more. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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