HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Today, some of the largest, most successful companies, such as Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft, are scaling up use of data science, recruiting experts in organizational psychology, and expedite their digital transformation to deploy technologies like AI and ML in the workplace to improve their people analytics. AI & Machine Learning.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. How many more times do people have to hear it before it actually becomes a priority? That is the good news.

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Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Building on a relationship that dates back to 2004, Zurich Insurance Group is working with DXC to move from traditional data center outsourcing to a Platform as a Service model, taking advantage of next-generation cloud management technologies to lower operating costs and accelerate development.

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Insurance Technology Agility Outsourcing 8

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Gartner says that organizations will need to determine which of the 10 key changes in the nature of work will affect them, and consider whether radically different technology models will be required. De-routinization of Work: Non-routine skills are those we cannot automate.

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Agility Insurance Influence Content 146

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Gartner says that organizations will need to determine which of the 10 key changes in the nature of work will affect them, and consider whether radically different technology models will be required. De-routinization of Work: Non-routine skills are those we cannot automate.

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Agility Insurance Influence Content 133

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Agility Team How To Project 13

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Alas, as it stands, adequate event modeling, and risk and security assessments, are being stymied by a lack of shared intel on private company breaches, effectively hampering the development of comprehensive prevention and management strategies. Regulatory environment. About the Author.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

At the same time, front-runners across industries are partnering with technology companies to identify game-changing business solutions that can be achieved through AI. Maximized customer experience: With NLP, speech recognition, and virtual as­sistants, insurers can embrace innovative ways of transforming the cus­tomer experience.

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Insurance Industry Content Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Financial services and insurance offer good examples of this shift. While some banks and insurers were known for their service or products, most have long focused on operating as efficiently as possible. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Mastering big data.

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Technology CIO Content Customer Intimacy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

They adapt quickly and predict trends by continuously curating and analyzing data and developing insights that drive new value. IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant.

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Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In addition to the digital tools entering the workplace now, several technologies and trends on the horizon have the potential to further transform the way we work and interact with others. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Orchestration, APIs, and the citizen developer.

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Technology Trends Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Suppose you're a senior executive at a large financial services company such as Nationwide Insurance or ING. Would you look to your information technology organization for ways to improve customer service? Building on their team successes, they created an "Agility capture team" of senior IT leaders to address larger issues.

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Process Innovation Agility Insurance 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Turning IT into an Agile Business Process.

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Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic. Already, evidence suggests that early AI pilots are unlikely to produce the dramatic results that technology enthusiasts predict. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Insurance Video Project Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. It includes accountabilities. Who has P&L authority? ” he asked.

Strategy 8

Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development uses “results-based” aid to improve the educational outcomes of young girls in Africa and Asia. Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. ” Health care.

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Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade. Apple uses Foxconn to make iPads, iPhones, and iPads.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. They are essentially R&D investments in unproven ways to use digital technologies. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology. Development approaches. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital.

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Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

That was closely followed by recognition that many corporate cultures had not developed the agility and flexibility to transform: 29 percent said the culture could not absorb all the changes coming from strategy implementation. Develop robust plans but allow for missteps — fail fast to learn fast.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Management Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

How do we reduce the performance drag of top-heavy management structures, replace "manager-management" with a more agile self- or peer-management, and create a vibrant social system in the process? It's a big-ticket shift that is already yielding big impact — from employee engagement to increased agility to real performance gains.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. To help manage the increased complexity of knowledge work, $20 billion financial services provider Nationwide Insurance has been pioneering the use of social collaboration tools.

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Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Today’s successful companies close the strategy-to-performance gap with a new strategy approach best described as “Decide-Do/Refine-Do” This agile, test-and-learn approach is better suited to today’s tumultuous environment. Take Dell Technologies, for example. Value flexibility.

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Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Originally gaining notoriety as the data technology underneath the cryptocurrency called bitcoin, today blockchain technology is expanding its reach far beyond the confines of currency and tackling issues involving transactional social trust throughout the world. Powering the Supply Chain with Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

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Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Advances in data analytics give us the ability to look at large populations and precisely segment their needs and new technologies such as tele-medicine give us the capabilities to deliver customized experiences at scale. We begin by developing insights into today’s experiences. Step 7: Measure progress.

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System Self-aware Business Model Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. Insurance is still rare in India, so Medtronic had to make its pacemaker more affordable.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. Most CMOs have woken up to the fact that technology is fundamentally changing what marketers do and we can’t treat IT like a back-office function,” says Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. They offer strategies like content development, email marketing, creative and branding, and more.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. and technological uncertainty (can we make a desirable solution?) Technological uncertainty results from unknowns regarding the technologies that might emerge or be combined to create a new solution.

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Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 20

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Instead, what he looks for are intelligence, curiosity and an agile mind. They cannot hold a great conversation with the CEO about wine, but they can talk specifically about technology.". Everywhere I went, from Silicon Valley to the world of Japanese life insurance saleswomen, I heard the same story.

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Succession Conference Outsourcing Long-term 15