Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The revolution of cloud computing actually preserves the basic structure of how businesses have used information technology resources for the last few decades. But cloud computing does represent an architectural shift in how these resources are stored and deployed. Cloud Architecture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

P&G''s Connect and Develop ) to increase velocity and quality of their new product introductions, the IT infrastructure support for this business process change is critical. A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). Improving Operational Efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

That would never fly in marketing, operations research, or even accounting, where academics are all over new developments. In most companies, the HR staff is many times larger than the marketing department—yet while all leading B-schools have a marketing department, almost none have any HR-dedicated faculty at all.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

As remote work is exceedingly conventional now, companies have started to hire human resources from all around the globe. Commonly, these third parties look after customer care, information technology, etc. The most viable method of doing this is to create a local presence through your marketing team.

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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?

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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. The options are tangible.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

The immense promise of big data to reveal new opportunities and deliver practical business results has so far been focused on technologies and models, and less on the human challenges of staffing roles and processes to take advantage of big data’s promise. Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” Because new technologies frequently require specific new skills that schools don’t teach and that labor markets don’t supply. 39% of employers did. Why are skills sometimes hard to measure and to manage?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Consider Lowe's , America's second-largest home improvement retailer worldwide, with revenue of $49 billion and more than 1,700 stores.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. Every other function of the organization is as out of touch as IT.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market. Sales operations must consider changes to market segmentation, territory management, and resource allocation. Human resources. These may involve new areas for the company (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. That’s changing. Uber is another example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. Great data scientists conduct such analyses to develop a wider perspective. Take a hard look, in person.

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