Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Government in its entirety is a cost-center to society, so we desperately need to create not just jobs, but private sector jobs. You can learn about new things and become an expert more easily through online education and free digital information. That means that the jobs you can get may not be like the jobs you had.

Cost Center 12

Cost Center Entrepreneur Fashion Learning-by-Doing 12

HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

This will help continue to dispel the perception that HR is a cost center or soft skill-based function and demonstrate how data-driven HR can directly impact the bottom line. . One big key to tackling that issue is by building a better workforce development model between industry, government and our educational system.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Education Resources Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

People are not given adequate opportunity to provide input, nor educated on the new process and applications they are expected to use, and they blame IT for imposing something on them they do not like. Today, this topic simply doesn’t come up often enough, leading to a one-size-fits-all approach to managing IT, often as a cost center.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

By contrast, usage brands focus on the moments of truth that happen after the transaction, whether in delivery, service, education, or sharing. Usage brands, by contrast, elevate customer service and loyalty from resource-starved cost-centers to key drivers of growth and profitability.

Brand 8

Brand Succession B2B Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Rather than serving as an adjunct to the core business, or merely a cost center, IT is becoming intrinsic to the very products and services that every company offers. Why is this? Mainly because, as Marc Andreessen puts it, " software is eating the world."

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

You have funded the education of your competition and put yourself further behind the curve by virtue of the reprimand. Your competitor is getting nothing but a disingenuous cost center. Aren’t they more likely to tread water until they find a way to navigate to a new job elsewhere?

Performance Review 100

Performance Review Review Learning-by-Doing Document 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The implications for global education are huge, of course. Typically an in-house cost center, service is usually viewed as a necessary evil and constantly targeted for "efficiency." This is more than a story of online learning or mass dissemination. And that would be interesting enough. It can change how we to co-create value.

Participative 15

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15