Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Just as you prepare your organization for disaster response, crisis communications, and continuity of operations, you can also prepare yourself. A 25-year veteran in senior human resources and leadership and development roles in four multinational companies, Harry Hutson is now an independent consultant.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In the corporate world, cloud computing has become a popular buzzword as companies shift more and more of their products and services onto the web. Rather, it encompasses an entire trend of computing servers moving into centralized data centers, where its power can be leveraged by companies all over the globe. Cloud Architecture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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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. Let me explain.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising. If you give a dollar to human resources, or new computers, or staff training, etc., Because no one likes to fund fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. At the organizational level, as I have written frequently, effective companies function as communities of human beings, not collections of human resources. Networks connect; communities care.

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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.

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Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 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

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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. Lowe's also tries to assess the "people change" needs that will be required in future operational improvement initiatives — as much as three years out.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

Southwest operates in an industry that has long been obsessed with asset utilization as the key to competitiveness. As we’ve argued elsewhere , once smart machines are built to solve problems in asset efficiency (or indeed any area of operations) they very rapidly spread and become pervasive across an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Human Resources groups have many line responsibilities of their own, such as succession planning, setting pay scales, and selecting the benefits package. They also work with other departments to help hire and train the human capabilities they need. The corporate DG must also own the end-to-end metadata processes.

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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. Operations. Federal Communications Commission, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

To address this issue, in our teaching in executive programs in Ireland, we ask participants — executives that come from a wide range of companies and government agencies, and departments such as customer service, product development, and human resources — to develop such evidence using the Friday Afternoon Measurement (FAM) method.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

To address this issue, in our teaching in executive programs in Ireland, we ask participants — executives that come from a wide range of companies and government agencies, and departments such as customer service, product development, and human resources — to develop such evidence using the Friday Afternoon Measurement (FAM) method.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. Even a small improvement in predictive accuracy can be worth millions to companies that hire tens of thousands of people per year. Human resources Information & technology Talent management'

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Succession Human Resources Information Technology Software 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. Data is invading every nook and cranny of every sector, every company therein, every department, and every job. That’s changing. The sums can be enormous.

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