Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. Direct Attention Away from Immediate Urges. “We Avoid temptations.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 25, 2021

Of all the stakeholders involved in, or impacted by, the development of autonomous technology, parking vendors are unlikely to be at the top of anyone’s sympathy list. Despite the unpopularity of urban parking systems, they nonetheless provide a valuable source of revenue for municipal budgets. rise in parking occupancy.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The researchers collected data from the contactless payment systems installed on buses and commuter train services in Utah to not only provide a decent estimate of the emissions currently saved, but also how much could be saved with better coverage. “Now we can truly quantify trips in both time and space,” they explain.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 9, 2019

The researchers gathered data on around 230,000 patients who had been admitted to intensive care in the Danish health system between 2004 and 2016. Whilst the early results are interesting, the technology is still an awfully long way from market.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

—The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, women became the social safety net of the country and absorbed the shocks to the system. We’ve seen the positive impact of paid leave in our employees’ lives since we introduced paid parental leave in 2016. We design and innovate to enable authentic self-expression — originality.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. We redesigned the national subsidy system and put the country on a better economic path. How could I refuse?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” ” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. We used a topic-modeling algorithm that attempts to determine the topics in a set of text documents.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

It had been published in the journal of the Society for Health Systems (an organization I am active with today, including running the Red Bead Experiment at their 2016 conference). Too many healthcare workers don’t understand the system or value stream that they are a part of.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

When it’s time to hire for critical positions within your company, consider the training and certification in military systems offered to service men and women. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Click here to learn more about Korn Ferry Futurestep’s in-depth recruiter development program, Talent Academy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Of course, the internet has since become a major influence on our lives, from how we buy goods and services, to the ways we socialize with friends, to the Arab Spring, to the 2016 U.S. How technology is transforming transactions. presidential election. There are certainly many parallels. Bitcoin is the killer app for the blockchain.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

The world has its eyes on systemic racism. Leveraging diversity on teams will lead to more creative solutions and innovations. Technology may help you avoid implicit bias in your candidate selection. Yet, in 2016, just 30.8 You’ll have access to even more data if you use an applicant tracking system.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Change is innovative. University of Texas System, 50th. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2016: Houston Community College, 45th. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. I’m the person who planted the ideas and strategy. The Astrodome, 50th.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety. The first wave of innovation centered around enhancements in surgical technique. Nearly 65 million surgical operations were performed last year in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of hype. However, there are many reasons to invest the time now to understand the technology and begin exploring specific marketing applications for your industry. Blockchain technology allows for near-zero transaction costs—even on microtransactions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While most bosses would frown on playing Halo at the office, it’s video games that are driving much of the innovation in video, virtual reality, and collaboration technologies today—something that has important implications for how we work, especially with far-flung colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. Aggregate data with system-wide interoperability to enable transparency and knowledge sharing. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. This “VUCA” environment rewards innovation but it also punishes failure more harshly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

When security breaches make headlines, they tend to be about nefarious actors in another country or the catastrophic failure of technology. In the 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index , IBM found that 60% of all attacks were carried out by insiders. Cyber criminals are experts at hijacking identities. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” Google has never been afraid to branch out beyond its core business; it expanded beyond search into email, chat, mobile operating systems, and more. They’re not alone.

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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. Innovate more effectively? reduced instances of teams playing four games in five days by 26%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them. Public policy for rooting out corruption calls for a systemic approach, with carrots and sticks to motivate cultural, institutional, and behavioral change in the long term.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

” But, when it comes to more complex and creative tasks such as innovation, the question still remains whether AI can do the job better than humans. After its March 2016 victory, the Google-owned program racked up over sixty wins against online opponents, a streak which sent the world’s top players into a tailspin.

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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

MAY 8, 2018

What you didn’t know is that during the 2016 season, the NFL made major league-wide improvements to its radio frequency technology, both to prevent interference from media using the same frequency and to prevent tampering. This was a development led by John Cave, VP of football technology at the National Football League.

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