Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It has all the bells and whistles; its wireless, Bluetooth compatible and an all in one (fax, scanner, and printer) machine. When it works, it’s wonderful but the operative word is when it works. For a small business, this is a huge operational problem. HP Has Uninspired Strategic Decisions.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Formerly SVP in charge of wireless communication. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They all take advantage of four technologies that once were scarce and expensive but are now plentiful and cheap. These technologies can be combined in numerous ways, and we are just starting to see companies really taking advantage of the possibilities. Wireless connectivity. Wireless Connectivity. What are they?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The lesson is really quite simple: Technology isn't free. Technology is at the heart of competition in a growing number of industries. Companies compete to develop new products and features that will entice customers to buy their products instead of their competitors' and hopefully to pay a premium price for what they have to offer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Yet these technologies rarely share data, let alone leverage it to support better clinical care. But in health care, few things work as expected. How did we get here? Part of the solution must involve hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

The big question around self-driving cars, for many people, is: When will the technology be ready? In other words, when will autonomous vehicles be safe enough to operate on their own? And where will this technology work best? Cars are heavy, fast-moving objects, operating in public spaces. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Director Recruitment and Skills. Again, we found differences among industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

For us, applying technology in a totally new way — to reserve and open the cars — was a key enabler of this new market segment. Without the internet and wireless communications, car rental by the hour was an impossibly expensive and tedious transaction for such a small increment of time. Or telcos about WhatsApp.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In “The Employee Experience” study, we found that 73% of employees surveyed agree that the longer they use their technology devices, the more they desire a visual break such as taking a walk or looking through unobstructed windows to an outside view. The benefits of these elements is is well recognized.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The advent of the internet and better devices has impacted the way people interact and how businesses operate. Smart TV technology is more than the usual television you will find at any house. It’s easy to browse the internet, play games, interact on social media, or video call using this smart technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

While most of us were still re-winding the tapes in our VCRs, brilliant minds were coming up with today’s technological advances. The ACT will provide advice and recommendations to the Governor’s office; enhance the cybersecurity workforce development; and, increase public awareness on cybersecurity best practices.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. Not only could they digitally store manuals and logbooks, but wireless connectivity could also help with communications, flight planning, and keeping track of weather. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. But not fast enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products. And cellular technology is leading the way. ” This has been driving ever closer relationships between banks and mobile operators.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

For instance, people of my generation are grappling with the wonders of technology with varying degrees of success. Some of us are totally immersed and intrigued by what can be accomplished in a wireless world, (including all the cool toys that come along with it). And that is worth paying attention to.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. How technology is changing the way we work. Weaver’s staff sent three million mailings a year to GM and non-GM customers, achieving a remarkable 25% response rate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. Technology solutions that help accelerate improvements of Zimbabwe’s decaying infrastructure will also be in high demand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Systems conceived and built 50-60 years ago should be reimagined for the 20 th century, whether high speed trains, innovative public transit, or technology-enabled roads and vehicles that tap the potential of sensors, smartphones, wireless networks, and Big Data for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

The technology ecosystem known as the internet of real-time data is moving us toward a better understanding of what these consumers are thinking and doing. Leading proponents of this approach use the data-talks-to-data concept developed by IBM's Jeff Jonas and his team in the Entity Analytics group. What about cash customers?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Weight loss is a clinically-accepted proxy measure for reducing the risk of developing diabetes.) Diabetes is one of the most pervasive and expensive chronic diseases: It affects an estimated 30.3 In addition there are 84.1

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Legislating ahead of emerging technologies, history has made amply clear, is always a recipe for unintended negative consequences. What''s more, regulations against the private use of information-gathering and reporting technologies often run afoul of the First Amendment , which broadly protects freedom of speech.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

That's why I advocate for more measuring of ourselves in my HBR article, " You, By The Numbers ," in which I describe the emergent field of auto-analytics, self-quantification technologies and techniques that can help us improve the way we analyze and take action in our professional and personal lives. Expert-run communities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Their concerns fell into three broad categories: talent, operating in a global marketplace, and regulation and legislation. AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. Operating in a Global Marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. Technologies that connect people to knowledge, services, and one another across the globe have acted as a centrifugal force, spinning functions and authority away from the center toward millions of previously silent and disempowered individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. The ecosystem will develop. And in just one evening, I found my solution in the form of 4G wireless connectivity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. This means using technology to handle the simpler needs, escalating to the doctor only what can’t be delegated. Getting the right data to the right recipient.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

The iPhone roared into the marketplace 10 years ago today, and overwhelmed the wireless world. Wireless is the same, but without the cat. That might seem like a good thing — using new technology to engage the public in ideological debate. The smartphone’s iconic social significance has been duly noted.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection. Operations. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase. HR has the job of developing the human capabilities needed to capture the IoT opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

India has added new customers at the fastest rate for Amazon in its history of operations across the world, including the U.S. Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos and Renault’s CEO Carlos Ghosn are in India for the long-term, as a hub for middle-of-the–pyramid innovations that can serve all emerging and even developed markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In many cases, the decision was influenced by the platform’s incentives, success in attracting a following, and technological superiority — something that should happen in the IoT ecosystem as well. In bids to gain developers, these companies are opening up their IoT platforms and programming interfaces.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP). By 2009, however, Verizon had scaled back plans for more fiber and DSL technology was falling behind improvements in cable. continuing to rely almost entirely on private investment. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Bakken Medical Devices Center for research, continues to grow one of the largest medical-technology clusters in the world. Soon thereafter a project with multi-year funding was developed to focus on a question of fundamental science in personalized medicine. Minneapolis, with the University of Minnesota and its dedicated Earl E.

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