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. A few facts might hint at the scale of this challenge.

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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. But at their best they feed off inefficiencies and make the whole system healthier as a result.

Health Care 8

Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2013

In order to do so, the designer needs to set up a clear framework, which involves the semantics and syntax under which the data information is designed to be interpreted. For example, when using an icon, the element should bear resemblance to the thing it represents, with size, color and position all communicating meaning to the viewer.

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Storytelling Succession Audience Information Technology 9

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' Big Data Demands Big Context.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Utility companies are the traditional example. To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Despite this modularization, managers still relied on one support system to unify a set of seemingly smaller value chains; information.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

The history of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems holds valuable lessons. The first wave of CRM systems got a boost with success stories in an HBR Article (" Automation to Boost Sales and Marketing ") in 1989 by Moriarty and Swartz. Billions of dollars and millions of hours were spent to build and operate these systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Reputation systems and active supplier screening maintain quality, and the need for insurance keeps customers from bypassing the marketplaces. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Societies and legal systems — police and neighborhoods — have to collaborate not just to fix broken windows but identify and punish vandals and criminal gangs. For example, there are no established or even informal rights of self-defense in cyberspace. Government Information & technology International business'

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Film Information Technology Globalization Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology.

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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

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. To source ideas, it often runs two-day hack-a-thons on specific health care challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Over the last 10 years, a basic shift has occurred from an IT-deployment view of the world of big systems and even bigger projects toward a people-centric and user-oriented view of hardware, information, and human collaboration and networking. The front- and back-office systems of digitally enabled companies must be joined together.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

The world is full of examples: "At IBM , we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. We use this idea to foster change in social institutions and thinking.".

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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. Both of these Trojans target system information, online credentials, and banking details. These are also customizable tools that can gather any sort of information the thief wishes.

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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.

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Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 11

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 was an important goal for Boomers in Western countries during these years.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Over the past 20 years, information technology and digital channels have changed the way consumers shop for products ranging from cars to homes to electronics. Business buyers are more connected and informed than ever before. Systems (e.g., mobile, cloud), and information (e.g., Sellers must respond.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

So instead of creating another pill dispenser, it launched a compliance-enhancing system. 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.

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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. Information & technology Leadership'

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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. Urban digital nervous system.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This means that companies must leave behind traditional models of proprietary systems, rigid processes, and reliance on a few longtime partners and move toward models that embrace open and flexible structures in which partners can solve business problems together. The reason? But chasing the cool factor can lead to compromised ROI.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

We don't understand the business models that will support real public private partnerships in the deployment and sustainability of mHealth systems. For example, Sproxil has found pharmaceutical buyers for its anti-drug counterfeiting service. One is figuring out the proper mix of public and private involvement.

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Wireless Health Care Pharmaceuticals Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Each node stores and forwards information to all other nodes. Every transaction and its associated value are visible to anyone with access to the system. 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.

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Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It’s hard to overstate the significance — and complexity — of the H-1B visa system in the U.S. H-1B visas are granted through an employer-driven system, meaning employers petition the government for visas tied to specific roles. For example, Axios reported that 72.4% A literature review by Yi Xue and Richard C.

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Bureaucratic systems are actually really good systems for distributing resources. In a communal system built around shared consciousness, what starts to happen is that people with charisma start to lead and cultural norms kick in. A great example of this on the ground in Mountain View where I live today is Google.

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Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Look at any piece of research about the subtle, systemic or “ second-generation bias ” holding back women and minorities in business and you will find lack of role models at the top of the list. Google, for example, stopped using puzzles and brainteasers in hiring after finding they did not predict work performance and leadership capacity.

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