Strategy Driven

MAY 17, 2023

Staying up-to-date with the latest fleet management technologies and best practices can further boost a company’s bottom line. Track and document all fleet-related costs, including fuel, maintenance, insurance, and depreciation. Ongoing fleet optimization can contribute to environmental sustainability.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Here is the rub and the reason why adopting this principle is so critical: in our experience, the priority initiatives turn out to be on new product, service, customer, and technology initiatives accompanied by an assumption that the organization has the capabilities to execute them. Agile and Fast. Engineered to Win.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful.

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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. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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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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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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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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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Both private and public companies are compelled to comply with local, national and global disclosure regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Regulatory environment. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Truly digital enterprises take a 360-degree view, using information and technology to improve the way all users — clients, employees, and partners — collaborate around information to substantially increase productivity and performance. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Chief Innovation Officer Jonathan Larsen explains how the Chinese conglomerate manages agility at immense scale.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Core technologies such as cloud, mobility, modern applications, and networks continue to evolve. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. That’s still true.

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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. Artificial intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation transcends technology. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity.

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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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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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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

New technologies and services for contingent workers make it easier and less painful to make the choice to go independent. The lack of benefits such as health and life insurance and disability benefits has been an ongoing major deterrent to contingent work, but even that situation is changing.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The biggest mistake I see is companies treating cybersecurity solely as a technology matter for IT departments to solve. That’s why I stress the value of a cyber risk management framework that begins by focusing on the business factors driving growth and profitability and ends with the technology infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., ” U se of digital technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Information, media, and entertainment (IME) providers now face a new wave of challenges brought about by digital technologies and business models. However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. Tomorrow’s IME Landscape.

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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. I see three big opportunities: 1.

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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. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital. Development approaches.

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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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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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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. Another 28 percent blamed parts of the organization for a lack of understanding of what new strategies would demand.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

One program providing health insurance to children in moderate-income families boosted the rate of new-business creation, raised new companies’ chances of survival, and increased the self-employment rate by 23%. The doctors could essentially use the model to do a dress rehearsal before the operation.

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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. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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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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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. Test and learn, then test some more.

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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. Capabilities are made up of people, processes, and technologies.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

Never in the history have so many technologies matured at the same time from social, mobile, cloud, artificial intelligence, sensors, quantum computing, and more. The combinatorial effects of these technologies have suddenly accelerated progress exponentially toward the hyperconnected world, we live in today.

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