Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

M&A deals that are made for the purpose of acquiring new technology can make or break a company. But there was a little known fact complicating the situation: The purchase didn’t include full ownership of Skype’s underlying technology. Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Smart organizations have recognized that introducing new technology into the workplace isn’t about hardware or software: it’s about wetware , also known as human beings. But most people only embrace technologies that actually help them achieve concrete and valued goals. How technology is changing the way we work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Widespread use of antivirus, intrusion detection technologies, improved cryptography algorithms, and methods for blacklisting infected web sites are just a few examples of how technical advances have improved cyber defense. This effect is similar to the overuse of antibiotics promoting antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Game Theory 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

Attackers will take the path of least resistance to the biggest possible payoff. Competitors might even consider taking this cooperation a step further and implement programs through which they share vendor security ratings and flag potential issues. Work with competitors. Hold supply managers accountable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Their number one answer: employee resistance. Figuring that their earnings would decline, the cutters were trying to block adoption, in part by misinforming owners about the benefits of the technology. Silver Star’s management says that the new policies are key to gaining workers’ cooperation.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. You may find it necessary to bring in professional facilitation if you are running into excessive resistance or acrimony. Poor organizational trust is also an indicator of lower cooperation, productivity, and sales (Davis, Mayer, & Schoorman, 1995; Davis et al.,

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

In a large technology firm, for example, the CEO led a bi-weekly meeting of her top 20 people to review the business and make key decisions. People won’t always be this cooperative or open to feedback, so employees should be prepared for resistance and tread with caution. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

However, rather than rolling out the red carpet, city governments have resisted many of these new entrants issuing subpoenas and cease-and-desist orders. But companies in this space can benefit from being more cooperative with regulators. Government Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

The response to concerns raised about civil liberties and civic culture (including on this site) ranged from skeptical ( "This is a spontaneous response of the crowd to an unfolding situation, merely taking advantage of current technology" ) to to hostile ( "What a load of GARBAGE!" ).

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Consensus Media Policies Groupthink 12

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

A flexible employee demonstrates proficiency in a variety of areas, allowing for greater use of skills and less resistance to re-organizations, transformations, or company developments. Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. Continually assess how happy you are in your current role. Just lessons.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Sutton notes that we all have a tendency to look for confirmation of our own opinions, but we should also resist it. Bruno West*, a senior executive in technology, was responsible for a post merger integration team that included members from both of the pre-merger companies. "It Case study #1: Get to know him.

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Goleman How To Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Recently, a new technology has emerged that could change this imbalance. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. But the most revolutionary aspect of blockchain technology is that it can run software in a secure and decentralized manner. How technology is transforming transactions.

Decentralization 13

Decentralization Cooper Technology Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. But we must resist the temptation to anthropomorphize code and misapply machine governance to social systems. They are interdependent and incentivized to cooperate in conserving the extant network rules. As it turns out, not very.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Several groups resisted and pushed back against the robo-adviser team’s requests for information and cooperation. But, to the C-suite’s great credit, leadership insisted that everyone cooperate. That means organizations can continuously learn and improve from their recommenders.

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Engineering Company White Paper Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Practices can change, business models are disrupted, and technology evolves, but principles do not change. 6: Promote team engagement and effective cross-business cooperation. ” Govern through transparency to engender trust and enhance cross-business cooperation in delivery. Beware of the “frozen middle.”

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Strategy Content Cooper Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures. If they are not complementary, part of the firm should be sold.

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