Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 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. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. A business model defines how your organization creates and captures value. An operating model defines how your organization delivers the value promised by its business model.

Company 8

Company Operations Human Capital Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The ECJ ruling has implications for all multinational businesses that handle European data, and it dilutes the “proportionality test,” where businesses claim that the economic effort of deleting personally identifiable data is damaging to their business models. Information & technology Innovation'

Innovation 8

Innovation Safe Harbor Compliance Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Organization kicked off a major Reliability Engineering program, much like the efficiency initiatives of companies such as Toyota. These companies’ valuation of their data assets begins with a commercial business case. Information & technology Internet'

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow P&L NPV EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity. However, digital technology is not the true story.

Management 12

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

That’s a few business generations ago: think mainframes with spindle cards, Nixon, and gas guzzlers; your parents were probably younger then than you are now. You can look at history too: creative destruction has been the fruitful norm, as Schumpeter emphasized, at least since the steam engine.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Marketing Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Google Books represents a major victory for Internet search engines and consumers. The message of the ad is clear: stop selling silly pink toys to little girls and instead encourage them with toys that might lead them to study STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math). But don’t just take my word for it.

Technology 8

Technology Open-book Information Technology Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Platforms of engagement, based on human experiences, are the new loci of value creation and therefore the new engines of capitalism.

CEO 11

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

However, after decades these patterns reversed; large numbers of ordinary workers eventually saw robust wage growth thanks to new technology. Information technology automates the work of white-collar jobs and the pace of change is faster. Of course, technology and skills were not the only factors that helped boost wages.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Throughout the '70s, Xerox leadership empowered a group of scientists and engineers to develop products for the coming information era. McColough also recognized that building information technology products wasn't a task for Xerox's existing research staff. Its successes include technology titans like Adobe and Level 3.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

The success of this model has showed us that sharing helps foster community and connection, instead of isolation and separation — and it’s enabling a whole new wave of entrepreneurship and income-earning opportunity all around the world. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Insight Center. No strategy is static.

Technology 8

Technology Price eBook Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Peter Cappelli reviews the evidence to conclude that there are not major shortages of workers with basic reading and math skills or of workers with engineering and technical training; if anything, too many workers may be overeducated. New specialties emerged such as user-interaction specialists and information architects.

Skills 8

Skills Short-term Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

While Gledhill is a “fourth-generation” engineer with a degree in computing and electronics, his formal education was decades ago, well before the rise of smartphones and related apps. It is hard to make decisions about technologies or business models with which you have no first-hand experience.

Banking 8

Banking Technology Learning-by-Doing Download 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Throughout the '70s, Xerox leadership empowered a group of scientists and engineers to develop products for the coming information era. McColough also recognized that building information technology products wasn't a task for Xerox's existing research staff. Its successes include technology titans like Adobe and Level 3.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Accept that virtually any movie, TV show, or musical album can be pirated with a few clicks by just about anyone who knows how to use a search engine. The integrity of protecting meaningful digital distribution rights for the creators of works of art is severely compromised.

Safe Harbor 11

Safe Harbor Download Content Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Strategic investments are critical to future business success. They create or support a transformation in how the organization conducts its business, with the aim of providing competitive advantage. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

One of the biggest obstacles is that traditional functional departments often can’t meet the needs of IoT business models and have to evolve. telemetry, communications and connectivity protocols, electrical hardware engineering). Sometimes in IoT businesses, the answer is actually less tech and more traditional execution.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The Science Team intentionally refrains from using the words “data” or “analytics,” as the team’s capabilities stretch far beyond these two disciplines: behavioral economists, psychologists, engineers, and change management experts work hand-in-hand with data scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Insurance Analysis Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Here’s a look at a tiny, tiny slice of it: Those are a couple of dozen air quality sensors located around Boston, as documented by Thingful , a search engine for publicly available Internet of Things things (including sharks !). Click on a dot to get real-time information on air quality in the area. Information & technology'

Gordon 10

Gordon Porter Information Technology Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Equally important, however, is the need for technology experts who possess both the business and the people skills to collaborate across groups inside and outside the enterprise’s four walls. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Turning information exchange into value and revenue involves changing the nature of information relationships as well as management’s abilities to act on that information. The most forward-thinking companies are developing new business models to create value from these kinds of information exchanges. (2)

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

I once asked my youngest, Greg (studying engineering at Princeton at the time), to research examples for me as I was writing Data Driven. There is no standard business model for informationalization or a tried-and-true list of basic questions. Let's take another example.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Information Course 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Economic analysis finds that most of this productivity growth is accounted for by a few companies such as Walmart who used information technology to become much more productive. This model, where proprietary software pairs with other strengths to form competitive advantage, is only becoming more common.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8