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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Schadenfreude aside, however, Sony’s breach is important not for technical vulnerabilities exposed and secrets revealed, but for the operational challenges it highlights. For example, there are no established or even informal rights of self-defense in cyberspace. But those agencies are under no obligation to provide it.

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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. Health Information & technology Innovation' Some are already successfully applying this strategy.

Health Care 8

Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 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.

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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. They tend to operate in disciplined networks on a larger, international scale. Cybercriminals are diverse and constantly changing.

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Utility companies are the traditional example. Such information collection and distribution required massive scale and drove competitive advantage. 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. So what's the solution?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Billions of dollars and millions of hours were spent to build and operate these systems. 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. In the second wave, led by Siebel Systems, tens of billions of dollars were spent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

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. For example, take Kim Russo, head of marketing at TeleTech Services. That required measurement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Information-oriented business models are incorporated in many digital companies right from their inception but are more difficult to develop and scale in large, established companies.

Technology 8

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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. Operations. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum.

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Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Sheer computing power isn’t the key differentiator either, because the predictive future relies less on additional statistical mastication than on a greater diversity of inputs. In this example, information that was critical to the customer came from outside its walls.

Company 8

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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. The reason? These groups must work together. Not so cool.

Succession 8

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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

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

While it’s hard to imagine a Wal-Mart with the diversity of products offered by Amazon or even eBay, that is the kind of future we are moving into. For example, imagine the overhead involved in renting temporary furnishings for a house.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Site visit teams were diverse and representative of major Partners institutions and stakeholders.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

A great example of this on the ground in Mountain View where I live today is Google. The information technology industry feeds off it because information technologies can so easily be aimed at satisfying individual needs. One example from the ‘60s that I think is pretty telling is all the road trips.

Information Technology 11

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 11

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.

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