HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

With the way trends and technology keep adapting, having strong control over the human resources invested in a company and planning for the long term can be just as crucial a decision as planning a new product launch or seeking a profitable business deal. Investment in HR Technology Another investment avenue is in HR technology.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2023

Furthermore, a tight labor market keeps more young professionals at their current jobs, driving more people to pursue an online MBA. You’ll learn to use software like MS Office, use cloud storage, and navigate programs such as Blackboard. You’ll be able to apply relevant technology in your professional life.

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HR Digest

MAY 15, 2024

By regularly conducting training needs analyses, organizations can cultivate a culture of continuous learning and development, empowering employees to stay up-to-date with industry trends, technological advancements, and evolving business requirements. The Three Levels of Training Needs Analysis What is traning needs anaylsis?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

When a business is driven by AI, software instructions, and algorithms make up the critical path in the way the firm delivers value.” The authors provide case studies from the travel industry to the retail, entertainment, and automotive industries. Capabilities Are Increasingly Horizontal and Universal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". It was among the fastest-growing Chinese automakers, and it was racing to get into the hybrid market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And he’d seen and heard about similar cases of misuse elsewhere. Worse, it apparently hadn’t hired or trained anyone to use the software tools.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. International trade development, including research, marketing, relocation, negotiations and lobbying.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Look to those who aren’t just saying they are experts but can demonstrate some successful examples or case studies from their expertise.​ Networking and marketing are vital parts of building a business, so make sure you have a plan to tackle both. That's okay!

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

It looked like a stuffed animal — a cartoonish plush bird with a beetling brow and goofy eyes — but it contained a microphone, tiny speaker, headphone jack, computer chip, and enough speech-recognition and voice-generation technology to engage in sassy banter in Mandarin. Are we a toy company or a language company?"

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Case Study Retail Learning-by-Doing Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

Bringing new technology and tools into your organization can increase productivity, boost sales, and help you make better, faster decisions. According to a study by MIT Sloan Management Review and Capgemini Consulting, the vast majority of managers believe that “achieving digital transformation is critical” to their organizations.

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Technology CRM Training System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? In 2011, Capillary began looking beyond emerging markets for further growth.

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Technology Innovation CRM Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Beatriz Muñoz-Seca is a professor of production, technology, and operations management at IESE Business School, University of Navarra. So good to see you!"

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 12

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. Still skeptical?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Those failures can mean a lot of things — over-budget, data integrity issues, technology limitations, and so forth. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. They try to address more objectives than are reasonable for any software system.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. Marketing 101 principles still apply.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It will change the category you compete in, the products and services you sell, and how you market them, and even the talent you acquire. These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Longer-term, Lowe’s needs to reinvent the way it markets and sells to consumers.

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Industry Retail Software Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Largely to blame is the approach their companies have taken in applying office technologies. For the technology to deliver value, knowledge workers must do pesky things like extract and move massive amounts of data from one system to another. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

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Case Study Software Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It will change the category you compete in, the products and services you sell, and how you market them, and even the talent you acquire. These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Longer-term, Lowe’s needs to reinvent the way it markets and sells to consumers.

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Industry Retail Software Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We validated our quantitative approach by reviewing several case studies of U.S. As we studied the data, we realized that we were looking at the results of a rare natural experiment on the costs of adjustment to self-disruption. and international electric utilities. What companies fall into this quadrant?

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

But along with fax machines and long golf games, these features of B2B life have all but disappeared due to the astonishing change in technology over the past two decades. More than 70% of searches start with a generic search, such as “CRM software,” rather than a search for specific brands.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Case Study #1: Stay current and build relationships with your colleagues so that you understand what motivates them. The new Work Market website will go live this spring. ” Case Study #2: Create a message that resonates, and forge a path for others to become proponents. . Her efforts paid off.

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Influence How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Social technologies — the software and services that make it possible to show off your vacation pictures to all your Facebook friends and follow your favorite team tweet by tweet — are not just giant time sinks that keep your employees from getting their work done. How's this for counter-intuitive? trillion annually.

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Media Productivity Products Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

Almost 50% of market pioneers fail, and later entrants or organizations that don’t enter a market first often end up being more successful. Being optimally distinct—and marketing yourself as such. There are case studies in other sectors too: Just look at Chobani. They weren’t.

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Productivity Products Succession Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

For example, when Apple expanded from music players to phones, it carried over to the iPhone not just the technology and software that powered the iPod but also users' entire music collections and its music store's entire supplier base. It pursued this very same course with great success when it launched the original Kindle in 2007.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy.

Media 58

Media Learning-by-Doing Newsletter Blog 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. And the advocacy vendors who've been serving these companies for years can kick start a vibrant apps market for Facebook's platform.

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Real Estate Conference Software Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance.

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Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

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Reference Tips Media Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

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First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Management education today is largely about educating for judgment —developing future leaders’ pattern-matching abilities, usually via exposure to a lot of case studies and other examples, so that they’ll be able to confidently navigate the business landscape. Information & technology' Big Data Demands Big Context.

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Information Technology Analysis Software Guidelines 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

In the software industry, giants like Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM have all invested heavily in the cloud technologies that are disrupting software. Steve Blank often likes to point out that start-ups are entities formed to identify product-market fit. Once a disruptive substitute emerges, the paradigm changes.

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Disruptive Innovation Airlines Tactics Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

And as the world continues to digitize and almost every product and service becomes more driven by (or at least integrated with) software, this need grows even stronger. With software, however, the relationship between we’ve finished building it and it has the effect we intended is much less clear.

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Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Case Study #1: Seek advice from others and uncover the root of your boss’s indecisiveness. The team had created a new product, but “we were limited by technology at the time — the cloud infrastructure wasn’t very developed — and our solution wasn’t elegant.”

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How To Reputation Case Study Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Consider, for example, the UK software company, Red Gate. They first experimented with a "coding by the sea" initiative, where they got a bunch of volunteers to take over a beach house for a few days to see if they could make progress on a software product. So a more focused approach may be more worthwhile.

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Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8