Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Or, might they see images of Big Brother , and be repelled by a company snooping on the data they generate as they work? But companies are looking beyond cost savings—to driving outcomes. Companies like Google are taking this even further. It’s no coincidence that this sounds like consumer marketing.

Human Resources 11

Human Resources Information Technology Report Human Capital 11

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

Thanks to breakthroughs in virtual technology, businesses have benefitted as well. Companies have taken full advantage of these breakthroughs, from hosting meetings online to keeping track of their employees’ progress through digital portals. Commonly, these third parties look after customer care, information technology, etc.

Globalization 105

Globalization Tips Outsourcing Strategy 105

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. And in the 1990s, our companies began to learn more from innovations at home, particularly in the area of high-performance work systems. A few decades ago, U.S.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

(Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. In the traditional village, you chatted with your neighbor at the local market, face-to-face: this was the heart of community. Networks connect; communities care. But what kind of a village is this?

Drucker 8

Drucker Information Technology Globalization Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2013

One of the things that is different since the recession is the approach that most companies are taking to hiring—where virtually everything about the process is automated or outsourced. Then, as the labor market changed, automation was simply the most efficient way of dealing with a deluge of candidates. How is that possible?

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Software Cost Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. But not for long.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

The immense promise of big data to reveal new opportunities and deliver practical business results has so far been focused on technologies and models, and less on the human challenges of staffing roles and processes to take advantage of big data’s promise. The study also found a looming need for over 1.5

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Just as the A's used analytics to find undervalued players who got on base at a disproportionate rate, your company can crunch data to find the offers your customers will respond to best, the price points that will move the most products, or the supply chain configurations that will wring out most cost.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business. Once this was done, the executive leadership and CIO focused on implementing technologies that improve the company''s competitive advantage.".

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. I have rarely seen companies do this. To do this, Coco added outside consultants with experience in performance and process design. But it's also unusual.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. Making the most of a company's data requires oversight and evangelism at the highest levels of management. Making sure the company is collecting the right data.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? Yet, when it comes to the workforce — one of a company's most expensive and valuable assets — too many executives rely on hunches, making decisions without making use of relevant data. No wonder customer satisfaction plummeted.

Metrics 12

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Data scientists are definitely in short supply at the moment; ask any company that's trying to hire them. We're never satisfied with how the company is being run. Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? They can also interface with carbon-based lifeforms — senior executives, product managers, CTOs, and CIOs.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CIO Consultative Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I have had a front row seat as companies have struggled to enter the emerging world of the Internet of Things — first, 10 years ago as a vice president at Ambient Devices , an MIT Media Lab spinoff that was a pioneer in commercializing IoT devices, and then as a consultant. Building an IoT offering requires design thinking from the get-go.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The research project goals were to understand how customers perceive the salespeople they meet with, explore the circumstances that determine which vendor is selected, and learn how different company departments and vertical industries make buying decisions. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge. 2: It’s Really a Committee of One.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. Data is invading every nook and cranny of every sector, every company therein, every department, and every job. That’s changing.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. To make this process easier, companies heat the oil first with steam.

Osborne 8

Osborne Politics Information Guidelines 8