Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

Company 8

Company Hammer Operations Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions.

Company 8

Company Hammer Operations Process 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail. Further second- and third-order interactions occur downstream.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

They expect quality, and use it both as a selection criteria for purchase and as a constraint for sustained use. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail. The benefit is in producing emotionally sound products: products that people love, not just products people use.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

But while field organizing is essential in this closely contested race, the groundwork has been laid over many months by the campaigns' digital operations. You can thrive on constraints. As we approach the final days of the U.S. Everyone knows politics is a big money game. million Twitter followers to Romney's 1.6

Media 8

Media Marketing Politics Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The editorial page of the New York Times recently hammered Mitt Romney with a piece called " A Big Storm Requires Big Government." Such constraints would likely encourage less risk taking before a disaster.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Incentives Insurance Hammer 9