Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Of course, there never are ironclad guarantees around prediction; the future can have more shapes and colors than we ever imagined. It is not about avoiding complex statistical models, which of course are often necessary, but about having thought through, refined, and simplified the models enough to be able to understand them.

Credit Scoring 9

Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. About the Author Bill Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Communispond Inc., an organization that has taught business communications skills to more than 600,000 persons.

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect. So what is happening now? What''s next?

Education 9

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

Of course, GE is not dead, and it may well revive and flourish as a company. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology. Private equity and the new capital markets.

Welch 8

Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We experimented, learned, applied, and iterated until it was flawless; AT&T wouldn’t release anything into the market until it was absolutely perfect. Of course we couldn’t show customers something that wasn’t perfect — it would affect their expectations and maybe ( horreur! Information & technology Innovation'

Information Technology 10

Information Technology Competitive Advantage Storytelling Engineering 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You have to make the question relevant to the interests and needs of the audience, of course. Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. Another very effective grabber is a question.

Power 56

Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Let them share it with whomever they wish in the course of their own health care journey. Several technology companies — including Google and Microsoft — tried this in the early 2000s, but their efforts failed. Health care could start to function much more like traditional economic markets. health care system.

Health Care 10

Health Care System Industry Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Of course, subtler and more nuanced 80/20 KPIs can be winkled out from expanding data sets. The most intriguing consequence I’ve observed is an emerging tension between managers and marketers who want to use Big Data and analytics to better customize their offering versus those who see 80/20 as a powerful segmentation exercise.

Due Diligence 10

Due Diligence KPI Loyalty Information Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Some of the displays are quite cool — I particularly like, for example, the "heatmap" showing where P&G''s products stand in their respective markets. But their purpose is not, of course, to dazzle managers with coolness and creativity. Consumer goods Decision making Information & technology'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Of course, identifying Moneyball-like metrics and boosting individual performance remains vital. Of course, the MLB, NBA, NFL and FIFA are hardly perfect analogues to either gigantic global enterprises or Silicon Valley start-ups. How might “teamness” improve the time to market performance of new product development efforts?

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. In the traditional village, you chatted with your neighbor at the local market, face-to-face: this was the heart of community. Networks connect; communities care. But what kind of a village is this?

Drucker 8

Drucker Information Technology Globalization Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

It is consumers that have made Africa the fastest growing mobile market in the world. But so far they've concentrated their marketing power at consumers, and invested in selling mainly broadband-related products to the corporate sector. The market is completely open. There's no guarantee that all this will happen, of course.

CIO 14

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Many CIOs are of course already well aware of all this. For a CIO or other technology leader to make the move successfully from infrastructure to innovation, three key building blocks must be in place. Market leaders and fast followers seek transformational change; cautious adopters and laggards dip their toe into incremental change.

CIO 8

CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Automating hypotheses that will excite marketers and financiers as well as engineers and designers will be as much a computational art as a software science. Of course, things get even more interesting and innovative when we start mashing up AH with “ML” — machine learning. Information & technology Innovation Technology'

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Hedge Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Leave it for a while and it can compound quickly to hundreds of miles off course. The pilot has a cockpit full of tools that tell him where he is relative to where he should be and provide the visual cues he needs to act early and course correct often. Along the same lines, a 5% drop in revenue can result in a 50% drop in market cap.

Business Intelligence 8

Business Intelligence Information Technology Uncertainty Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Of course, there is usually not just one, but a range of possible actions in response to a statistical finding. Among the potential responses to the finding: Targeting insurance marketing to loyalty card holders in the low-risk group, OR. And that, of course, will determine how to respond—and what level of downside risk is acceptable.

Insurance 14

Insurance Information Technology Loyalty Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Tom Davenport, the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, says that the health IoT will become “the most important and prolific source of real-time health data that we will have.” Expectations of growth in this sector are robust.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

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. Health Information & technology'

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

As new conditions and capabilities relentlessly change how business is done, marketing – that is, the internal function responsible for shaping demand for a company’s offerings—is being challenged to reexamine its own workings. We conclude that CEOs appoint CMOs when they recognize the centrality of these to strategy formulation.

Power 8

Power PR Marketing Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

As the field grows and evolves, the first generation of highly trained, highly passionate young data scientists is being joined by others who hopped on the bandwagon as a simple career move, responding to market demand and hoping for steady employment. Career planning Education Information & technology' It’s passion.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Storytelling Training Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Generations of Filipinos have been raised on Hollywood movies, Friends , the NBA, and of course, Facebook. The median age is 24, and local universities produce over 130,000 graduates in information technology and engineering each year. Rocket operates some of the largest e-commerce platforms in emerging markets.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

We believe that such tools should be designed with the patient in mind and should use self-reported outcomes data from actual patients, collected in real time, to help other patients anticipate their own course of treatment. That information can then be used to help future patients decide whether to pursue a similar course of treatment.

Health Care 8

Health Care Report Sports Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Of course, this response would be fine if the challenge were merely to deploy technology (on time and to budget) and ensure it continues to function properly for as long as required. Of course not! What the cloud does is make the technology-supply side more efficient and perhaps more agile. They never have!

CIO 8

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. With innovative information technology, however, executives sometimes lose their rational decision approaches.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

While they’re somewhat comfortable with innovation, European managers are worried about their overall competitiveness, which they feel is compromised by large, expensive and rigid social systems and labor markets, that are almost impossible to reform. There’s some variation on just how deep the concern is. Let’s look at innovativeness.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Both offer important lessons in social marketing — but mouthwash may still have one key advantage. Of course, when others “like” my post, this helps with common knowledge because I can see, and I know they can see that I can see, who likes my post. Information & technology Social platforms Technology'

Advertising 8

Advertising Information Technology Pharmaceuticals Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

Committee 14

Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Of course, simply spending more is not a strategy. ROI leaders see greater potential from Big Data to improve a number of marketing, sales, R&D and service activities. That''s changing, however, as analytics tools come to market for performing such compute-intensive chores as discerning sentiments from text.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In the early 1990s, executives and managers welcomed information technology — databases, PC workstations, and automated systems — into their offices. Every update or response to the market required multiple steps; it cost time and performance. They saw the potential for significant business gains.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Well of course we know it is not one. For example, the idea that market share leadership leads to cost leadership which creates defensible advantage is a dynamic argument. The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time. Out of their work came a new business focus on "time to market" and "cycle time."

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The labor market is about to be transformed by machine intelligence, the combination of ubiquitous data and the algorithms that make sense of them. If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. TC: The program, of course, does most of the calculations.

Management 9

Management Software Long-term Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

” Of course, this is not going to be an easy switch to make in most organizations. I don’t know how quickly it’ll happen, but I’m very confident that data-dominated firms are going to take market share, customers, and profits away from those who are still relying too heavily on their human experts.

Information Technology 10

Information Technology Analysis Software Guidelines 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. The megatrend in demand, of course, is the shift to developing economies. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8