Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2016

As businesses increasingly move their operations to digital platforms, and in particular to cloud space, even the most traditional staples of running an organization are being improved by embracing technology. This often leads businesses to use project management apps. Which tools does your business use?

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Document Software Tools Review 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

In conversations with executives, many of the same misconceptions about big data projects — and what makes them successful — keep coming up. Technology: The most popular misconception many organizations have is that big data projects are all about technologies that are specific to big data—Hadoop, Python, Pig, Hive, etc.

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Project Business Objectives Information Technology Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As fashionable as it is, “data science” is not a business objective or a learning objective in and of itself. ” It doesn’t necessarily refer to any particular technology, method, or value proposition. Predictive analytics isn’t a technology you simply buy and plug in.

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Objective Software Business Objectives Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

AI is a huge set of technologies, each with a specific, fine-tuned purpose. With the help of machines and advanced optical character recognition (OCR) technology , the USPS can now read and process 98% of all hand-addressed mail and 99.5% By linking this technology with a relatively small and finite data set of U.S.

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USP Airlines Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Make sure your guidelines align to business objectives. Bringing distributed groups up to speed with digital strategy puts you in the guidelines business. The first is on-the-job learning — you have a project that needs resources, and people learn as they go with targeted, just-in-time training to advance the project.

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Guidelines Team KPI Business Objectives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

If that''s the case, why would any company allow a business change initiative to fall short of its promised business benefits? Business change initiatives (those that involve IT projects) engage enormous resources — not just IT and financial resources, but human time and emotion. These are finite resources.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 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. There is no time for complacency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. In the project stage, the idea gains funding, labor, and attention; senior managers become aware of the idea.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Three of five marketers use no tools to measure event ROI, and most companies plan and execute events without specific business objectives. Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. New technology goes further.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

Our deeper analysis of over 200 performance reviews within one large technology company showed that reviews for women had vague praise more often than reviews for men (57% and 43%, respectively). Without specific, documented business accomplishments, it is difficult for a manager to make the case for advancement.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. Those three business portfolios are: The future state portfolio. The investment portfolio. billion in 2010 to $4.9

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Companies that want the insights from linked systems can navigate the organizational complexities with these six steps: Align feedback systems around high-level business objectives. As companies rely more on technology, relating to customers emotionally and pinpointing what troubles them gets trickier.

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Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Just as you would research a new product or service, you need to study the demographics of your current workforce and the projected demographics of your future workforce to determine what they want out of their jobs as these things are different generation to generation,” says Meister. Study your employees.

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Management Mentor Human Resources Incentives 9

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Learn when deadline crunch time is best to accomplish the optimum business objectives. Having too much time to get projects accomplished tends to breed procrastination. I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

The digital marketplace has created a business imperative that every company be — in some way — a technology company. Marketing executives are being tasked with leveraging technology to improve customer experience, drive client growth, and meet loyalty goals. Align your vision.

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Marketing Enterprise Architecture Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

For one, legal departments can’t often approve a project without an objective. But in addition, the team proposing the project needs to be clear and transparent about what they’re trying to accomplish. Projects without a purpose confuse people and incite skepticism, setting a bad precedent for future analytics efforts.

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Information Technology Participative Proposal Information 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

As marketing continues to shift and improve, we’ve come to rely on IT to provide expertise on current technology and, perhaps more importantly, to provide a road map that shows where technology will lead, where integration is critical, and how to make the best use of increasingly sophisticated tools. Create bridges.

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Marketing Banking Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

According to Herman Epstein, VP of IT Eastern Europe for Baltika Breweries, Carlsberg Group, “SAM has proved to be an extremely effective optimization tool, and now we will carry out such projects on a regular basis to understand how to use existing software, how to supplement it with cloud technologies, and what to buy.”

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Asset Management Software Licensing Content 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The truth of the matter is, businesses need to understand the channels their audience is on and want to consume content on and do a good job there. It's easy to put off content marketing, creating blogs, pulling resources off of other projects to create a voice around your own social and digital content. Just do it.

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