The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What’s more, a similar phenomenon appears to be occurring within countries too, with metro areas in the United States that are aging faster adopting automation technologies faster than areas that are aging more slowly. The older the workforce was, the greater the adoption of robots and other automated technologies.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In a conversation with The HR Digest, she explains why a conscious culture plays a dominant role in motivating employees at the world’s leading information technology and networking company. . As I talk to my peers, across the industry, we are all working hard to support our teams.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

It can be creative and innovative, but sometimes it fogs up and must be cleaned by clearing out old views and replacing them with fresh ones. What are the media and industry analysts paying attention to? Professional services have become a commodity in most industries and this has resulted in competitive pricing.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. These have coincided with a clear desire from the government to try and lead the 4th industrial revolution.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The gender wage gap is pervasive in many industries, especially those still dominated by men. Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. Software Developers.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Furthermore, by understanding your customers on a personal level and identifying their needs and desires, one can better cross-product sell, up-sell, and even develop new products or services that align with their desires. Drive Innovation. It is how people communicate, work, and connect. About the Author.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Executives never reach the pinnacle of their industry by consistently taking timid action. So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic. In 1984, Apple Inc.

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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. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Innovation Centers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Would you look to your information technology organization for ways to improve customer service? ING is in the middle of a transition from traditional step-by-step (" waterfall ") software development approaches to using cross-functional teams to make quick, small changes to systems (called " agile scrum " methods).

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Process Innovation Agility Insurance 13

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

It is also about developing each employee as an individual and nurturing them so that they can feel fulfilled and make the best contribution to your enterprise. If your business is associated with technology then you need to provide training on the latest technological developments – see programs relating to technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Every year, Russell Reynolds Associates surveys more than 2,000 C-level executives on the impact, structure, barriers, and enablers of digital technologies across 15 industries. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces. They are less affected, but not immune.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries. The names in the industry are global brands – BMW, Ford, Daimler. Yet despite its size and stature, it’s also an industry in the midst of transformation. Information technology, however, is one of those industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. Corporations need to see privacy as another market ripe for innovation, one that can yield global profits, because adapting to EU concerns means extending your market reach across the world. Information & technology Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Executives never reach the pinnacle of their industry by consistently taking timid action. So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic. In 1984, Apple Inc.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

This means that Apple and its future competitors will have to develop nifty consumer-facing apps that solve consumer health-related problems easily and cheaply. Federal and private sector organizations are trying to develop a voluntary but enforceable code of conduct to govern the behavior of private data stewards.

Health Care 9

Health Care System Industry Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. This is certainly true. Many economists would probably agree.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Recent, well-documented examples include Progressive Insurance''s use of predictive modeling in the property and casualty insurance space and the many industrial manufacturing companies that are generating almost all their margin and profit from after-sale, value-added services based on information generated by embedded sensors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. This is a dangerous mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Just as America''s visa rules enabled the rapid growth of India''s information-technology companies over the last two decades, the Obama Administration''s recent drive to reform immigration regulations could prove to be a turning point for them. In the same way, India''s information technology giants must bite the bullet today.

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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.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The Internet of Things is emerging as the third wave in the development of the internet. The repercussions span industries and regions. Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises.

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Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2015

When one of us (Walker) helped developed the idea that became Priceline.com, the challenge was to solve a decades-long problem: how could airplanes and hotels fill their last, otherwise empty and perishable rooms and seats while holding the line on the price and profitability of most bookings?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The ways individual companies achieve these straightforward goals fall in two basic categories: developing and adopting new management practices (such as total quality management, lean manufacturing, reengineering, and employee engagement), or adopting new technology and integrating it into the way work is done.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Lean Manufacturing Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And that's true in many areas: New devices, pharmaceuticals, and surgical techniques regularly get developed and incorporated into practice.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. Yet the industry will always remain a shadow of its former self, even as the products that disrupted pinball have revenues in the billions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. I don''t care what industry you''re talking about.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? But high performance companies in industries worldwide are digitally monitoring and measuring their people more comprehensively and rigorously. Information & technology Managing people Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

These firms are likely to have already established the organizational structures needed to nurture and spread new technologies and business approaches. And they have well-honed approaches for developing the requisite new skills in employees. How it will impact business, industry, and society. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. As soon as you've discovered the next, best thing, everyone in your industry starts trying to replicate it. To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Develop a vision of the future.

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