Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated in a new book through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Strategic plan as jigsaw puzzle.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While consumers are free to pick and choose the technology they will buy, the information they will access, and the degree to which they will network and with whom, managers and employees within companies are more constrained by the processes, structures, functions, systems, and technology the company invests in and deploys over time.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The importance of an inclusive work environment is on the minds of many leaders today. Exclusionary behaviors are dangerous for a business, with the impacts extending from dysfunctional workplaces and difficulties with recruitment all the way to serious legal issues.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 5, 2021

Millennials have been struggling to generate wealth when compared to previous generations, with the average Baby Boomer holding up to 7x the wealth of Millennials at the same age. Add in the pandemic, and financial futures of “the unluckiest generation in U.S. history” are grim.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Analyzing your audience and then using that information to target your message is your key to making your presentation memorable. At the heart of every employee is talent.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 30, 2021

For more than a year, the global aviation industry has faced its greatest crisis to date and in 2020, it suffered the heaviest losses in history.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The technological challenge is hard enough. You have to identify the right data and develop useful tools, such as predictive algorithms. Think of bankers deciding on business loans, product developers determining tradeoffs between features and cost, or B2B sales reps figuring out which prospects to target.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Information & technology Leadership Strategy' Strategy-making can now happen in real time.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics.

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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. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

From connected cars, iPhone-controlled locks (versions of which here, here, and here are in or close to production), to the hypothetical "smart fridge" that will one day order milk for me when I''ve run out, these technologies bring with them the promise of energy efficiency, convenience, and flexibility. Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Other companies have multiple employee collaboration platforms with different rules and technologies. But the responsibilities of the CDO will be required.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Groups that are isolated from outside perspectives can develop biases and insular thinking that leave them susceptible to overconfidence about the group’s ability to collaborate effectively. Thus, some turnover might be necessary to create an influx of unique contributors with new ideas, skills, and information. Emphasis mine.).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Companies need to make sure experimentation is included in their "data toolkits," learn when to use it, and develop the skills to conduct effective experiments. In the unfolding data revolution, companies must develop the capabilities to experiment. Many Information Age companies, such as Google , already get this message.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Management education today is largely about educating for judgment —developing future leaders’ pattern-matching abilities, usually via exposure to a lot of case studies and other examples, so that they’ll be able to confidently navigate the business landscape. Information & technology' Big Data Demands Big Context.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

times within 10 years of graduation), with 92% of your peers agreeing that more gender, professional, functional, sexual orientation, racial (and you-name-it) diversity is better. But there's more good news: The information technology revolution just lowered the cost of experimentation. social networks.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

The world is full of examples: "At IBM , we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. We use this idea to foster change in social institutions and thinking.". Michael Phelps.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. It was no small task for a corporation to get information from the point of sale to internal procurement teams to a diverse manufacturing network. Develop a vision of the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. The formula worked. But times change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

These people are the information economy's mom and pop business owners , just more technologically leveraged and profitable than their brick & mortar predecessors. Combine a lone technical genius with a mesmerizing sales guy and you had the DNA for a billion dollar technology company. The formula worked. But times change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

One answer is to take a cue from pivotal technology companies leading the change. Many of the companies leading today’s technology-driven transformations across industries are leveraging transitional strategies, or more specifically transitional business platforms. Businesses able to most cost-effectively provide it will win.

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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. Why Technology Won’t End the Marketing Hierarchy. The CMO’s power to succeed isn’t only a product of firm-level decisions, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Success requires getting a diverse group of managers to coalesce around change—breaking down barriers across a wide phalanx of IT, business-lines, analytics, and training experts. Information & technology Leadership' The possibility of failure is high when companies don’t commit senior leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Develop an inclusive vision of high growth entrepreneurship. Boston's Mayor Menino and his staff developed and have repeated hundreds of times the mantra of the Innovation District: "Live, work, play." The fuzziness was a counter-intuitive advantage in engaging diverse stakeholders to define for themselves the role they would play.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

National circumstances heavily influenced the development of Traditionalists (born from 1928 to 1945) and Boomers (born from 1946 to 1960). Similarly, conditions in East Germany and the Soviet Union did not allow for the development of strong generational solidarity against the existing authority. Highlights from this research.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We recently surveyed (PDF) senior Fortune 500 and federal agency business and technology leaders to discover the level of serious interest surrounding Big Data. So while there is an effort underway to develop talent from within, the vast majority of companies are seeking talent from the outside.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In 2015, such cybercriminals developed and deployed a computer virus known as the “Corkow Trojan” to infect Kazan-based Energobank and place more than $500 million in orders at non-market rates. They might even consider hiring and training social scientists to help them develop behavioral insights.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

All too often the functionality, user experience, logic, and workflow decisions of exactly how the application will work are made by the software vendor or app developer with no input from users. Executives who don’t take the time to develop a digital strategy get the IT they deserve.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Over the past 20 years, information technology and digital channels have changed the way consumers shop for products ranging from cars to homes to electronics. Business buyers are more connected and informed than ever before. mobile, cloud), and information (e.g., Sellers must respond. Sellers must respond. Systems (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. HR has the job of developing the human capabilities needed to capture the IoT opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. Sponsored by DXC Technology. The essence of IoT is interconnectivity. The reason?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Digital transformation—or the way of thinking about this change—refers to the use of technology to improve the reach and performances of enterprises. The technology is sophisticated enough now that the possibilities seem almost limitless. They are signs of profound change. It’s not limited to private enterprise.

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