Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Traditionally, cyber security research has focused on technical solutions to specific threats: for example, how to filter spam or protect PCs and mobile devices against the latest malware. This approach has greatly enhanced our ability to defend information systems against attack.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Incentives Diversity System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But maybe the thrill of accomplishment in these pockets is diverting senior managers’ attention from another, even more critical opportunity: Digital technologies are also rapidly changing how managers can acquire and assess the information they use to develop and execute on enterprise-wide strategy.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

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

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

She wondered whether all the underwriters knew how to interpret the results and whether they bothered to seek additional information. The company gave the tool’s output from five different example companies plus some additional information to four teams of underwriters. Her solution was to engage them in a game.

Tools 8

Tools Learning Curve Insurance B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

And yet scale is no guarantee of sustainability, as two recent examples illustrate. The Boston College researchers’ advice for community managers does not bode well for Wikipedia. Managers “should encourage the community to remain open to outsiders,” they write. Information & technology Internet'

Maturity 8

Maturity Case Study Mentor Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, it can take five years or more to develop today’s high potentials into leadership roles. Human resources Information & technology Talent management' Those tools predict who will leave and when, where talent will be plentiful and scarce, and how talent will move between roles. Increasingly, you cannot.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Information Technology Uncertainty Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

It’s a perfect example of the phenomenon that Paul Nunes and I refer to as Big Bang Disruption. According to company releases, these communities were chosen to maximize a diverse range of factors that need to be tested — including size, density, and location. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

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 business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. Scoping projects for success and managing ambition: Interdisciplinary design teams are, by nature, optimistic and ambitious.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Recruiters, HR managers, and investors have always sought better ways of identifying who fits and has potential, and how to allocate opportunities to them. But what if these new possibilities—used by recruiters and managers to efficiently and objectively get the best talent—only bake in current inequities? Or create new ones?

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Class Information Technology Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. 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. Operations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

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'

Information Technology 12

Information Technology Analysis Software Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

There’s no need for highly-specialized, hospital-based care teams, for example, to waste their time on what is often considered basic community treatment—for which hospitals charge twice or three times as much. Access to data and information will improve health care by facilitating deductive problem solving—the mother of innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

However, although their members can rent the (more urbane and green) Zipcar fleet by the hour and pick up their vehicle at a local parking space using a smartphone app, this is still a dedicated fleet, still inventory that the company has to acquire, manage and monetize. One of my favorite classroom examples is GirlMeetsDress.)

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

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. The requirements to operate effectively as part of the top management team also go beyond marketing-specific strengths.

Power 8

Power PR Marketing Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. On the innovation front, the opportunities are more diverse, but equally powerful. We see advances in materials, processes, and information technology that will make possible entirely new kinds of products and can radically alter how manufacturers operate.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

is one of many examples of what some now call internet time or a flat world and believe is somehow specific to 21 st -century information technologies and global markets. In fact, the point of industry analysis frameworks is to help managers dissect entry barriers, substitutes, and other forces that are changing their markets.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Marketing Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Let''s consider a recent example: Boeing''s lithium ion batteries for the Dreamliner 787. In both cases, senior managers had posed a seemingly simple question. But the effort to assemble all the relevant information, across their disparate data warehouses, was daunting. Information & technology Tech industry'

Sample 8

Sample Information Technology Industry Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Once they understood this point, they aimed to provoke change, but by working within the existing management system, not blowing it up. The data provocateurs I’ve worked with form a diverse lot: scientists, HR specialists, people at the lowest management levels, division presidents, relative newcomers, and seasoned veterans.

Quality 11

Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Utility companies are the traditional example. Each of these practices modularizes a firm. So what's the solution?

Porter 12

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

The history of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems holds valuable lessons. For example, salespeople can gain insight into which customer to target, which offers maximize value for each customer, or how to spend time to drive success. It must arm salespeople with information, rather than telling them what to do.

CRM 13

CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 13

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.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

For example, customer data and analysis can help you to acquire new customers, or help keep old ones. The notion was that the managers attending would winnow it down for practical purposes at the outset of the workshop, and in the process gain a broad familiarity with the whole landscape of the topic.

Objective 11

Objective Attrition Workshop Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Drawing from these examples, we also hope to provide some advice on how to deal with the increasing number and variety of cybercriminal gangs. billion has been hacked from the Boleto Bancário, a payment method managed by the Brazilian Federation of Banks, since 2012. Cybercriminals are diverse and constantly changing.

Company 8

Company Banking Information Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

In contrast, many other parts of the world experienced significant economic hardship, either from the aftermath of the war (for example, in Russia and East Germany) or from the policies of the then-leaders (for example, in Brazil, China, and India).

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

As diverse forces such as social media, climate change, urban migration, and sprawl continue to upend the status quo, employing every tool and service available to help societies respond to disruption is critical. Turn to Estonia for an example of a digital transformation of the social infrastructure. Estonia has only 1.3

Content 8

Content Transportation Osborne Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

This sharing requires a complicated management apparatus , mostly provided by VISA. If the process of using an ATM had been invented today, with the blockchain as a state-of-the-art database technology as an option, we would most likely not need an administrative entity like VISA to manage the process.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. For example, Axios reported that 72.4% A literature review by Yi Xue and Richard C.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9