Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

According to company releases, these communities were chosen to maximize a diverse range of factors that need to be tested — including size, density, and location. Emergency services and other public safety systems, of course, must also be tested to ensure they function as well if not better on the all-IP network.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

The real story behind IBM's success is the course Palmisano set for 21st century global enterprises. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Many Information Age companies, such as Google , already get this message. And over the years, I''ve helped many others conduct simple and effective experiments in areas as diverse as customer onboarding to policy deployment. Boeing and its suppliers had, of course, conducted extensive battery tests. And give it a fair chance.

Sample 8

Sample Information Technology Industry Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

So those contemplating this course should find the experiences of the great Bell Laboratories instructive. Bell Labs led fundamental work in physics, information theory, computing, wireless telephony, and quality control that underpins much of today's economy. Diversity of background and opinion is just as important.

Organization 14

Organization Wireless Diversity Quality 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. The megatrend in demand, of course, is the shift to developing economies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

However, in firms diversified into unrelated businesses, CMO power needs to be moderate –for political and rational reasons, since such firms have powerful divisional heads with diverse agendas. The CMO’s power to succeed isn’t only a product of firm-level decisions, of course. It also depends on attributes of the individual.

Power 8

Power PR Marketing Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

These standards for collaboration, of course, are unevenly practiced at companies where command and control and siloed cultures still exist. Information-oriented business models are incorporated in many digital companies right from their inception but are more difficult to develop and scale in large, established companies.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Sales managers can gain insight into what guidance to give salespeople, how to set goals that are fair and realistic, and how to keep a team on course to achieve district goals. Sales forces are comprised of diverse individuals who know their customers, love autonomy, and are driven by self-interest.

CRM 13

CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In the course of their investigations, they realized that doing so required a different approach to data quality. The data provocateurs I’ve worked with form a diverse lot: scientists, HR specialists, people at the lowest management levels, division presidents, relative newcomers, and seasoned veterans.

Quality 11

Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The problem is that creativity works by taking what we know and applying it to something new ; and what engineers understand is new enabling technology trends like cloud, mobile, social and big data. This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The problem is that creativity works by taking what we know and applying it to something new ; and what engineers understand is new enabling technology trends like cloud, mobile, social and big data. This worked great when the problems teams were trying to solve were fundamentally technology problems.

Venture Capitalist 17

Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

First, most nonprofits are simply too cash-strapped to invest in cutting-edge information systems to track their activities, engage with their stakeholders and understand their context. Of course, nonprofits cannot hope to magically reap the potential of medium data without some hard work.

Information 8

Information Storytelling Comparison Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

In India, loosened business regulations and restrictions on foreign investment and imports, along with reductions in bureaucracy spurred a boom in economic activity, including a major expansion of the telecommunications industry and space program and the birth of the software and information technology sector.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools? Add to Cart.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents. Health information and other technology. whether someone is employed and his or her earnings over time).

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Equally important, however, is the need for technology experts who possess both the business and the people skills to collaborate across groups inside and outside the enterprise’s four walls. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

While it’s hard to imagine a Wal-Mart with the diversity of products offered by Amazon or even eBay, that is the kind of future we are moving into. As a society, we’re experiencing a time of unprecedented technological change. We’re going to see the potential for a trajectory of radical change in all industries.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Of course, some of these applications overlap, and some are more "infrastructural" than others. For example, the "single customer data warehouse with all touchpoints" would be useful as a building block for most of these applications (but is of course hard to do from a business standpoint).

Objective 12

Objective Attrition Workshop Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Forbes said , “Experts who had one big idea they were certain would reveal what was to come were handily beaten by those who used diverse information and analytical models, were comfortable with complexity and uncertainty and kept their confidence in check.”. Of course, people aren’t financial instruments.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Information Technology Uncertainty Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

One of the developments that will undoubtedly cement the relationship between big data and talent processes is the rise of massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Hiring Information & technology Talent management' But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Business schools are jumping into them whole hog. An HBR Insight Center.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Class Information Technology Objective 8