Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. It’s a perfect example of the phenomenon that Paul Nunes and I refer to as Big Bang Disruption. It’s an end-game everyone needs to keep a close eye on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The technological challenge is hard enough. If decision makers aren’t willing to experiment with the tool and improve their outcomes over time, then your investment in the technology is wasted. She wondered whether all the underwriters knew how to interpret the results and whether they bothered to seek additional information.

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Tools Learning Curve Insurance B2B 8

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.

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Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

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

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. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Cyber attacks, once primarily directed against networks to steal confidential information and wreak virtual havoc, have begun to expand and are now directly affecting the physical world. These technologies also isolate different parts of the system from one another in the event of a security breach.

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Engineering Software Wireless Information Technology 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 health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. 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

OCTOBER 31, 2013

And yet scale is no guarantee of sustainability, as two recent examples illustrate. Information & technology Internet' These challenges are unlikely to be fatal, but they illustrate the fact that the issues facing mature online communities are both significant and distinct from those faced earlier in their life cycles.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Increasingly, customers demand more after-sale service; this is the norm now in business-to-business sales, but will spill over to consumer goods, too, thanks to some of the technology advances we'll talk about below. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 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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Information Technology Analysis Software Guidelines 12

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. The more things change, the more they change – but the fact of change is perennial.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Marketing Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

With the combination of cloud storage and computing, mobile technologies, and powerful analytical and predictive tools, we can start mining 'big data' and reaping huge rewards.". We commonly see new technologies overhyped; their capabilities are promoted beyond their potential. It's not that simple, especially for sales forces.

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CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Let''s consider a recent example: Boeing''s lithium ion batteries for the Dreamliner 787. And not just design — industrial experimentation has contributed to improvements in the technologies and processes needed to grow corn, assemble cars, find oil, and so forth. Information & technology Tech industry'

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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.

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Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

For example, there are no established or even informal rights of self-defense in cyberspace. And busting the government monopoly on active defense would probably increase the diversity, imagination, and effectiveness of the counterhacking community. Government Information & technology International business'

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Film Information Technology Globalization Banking 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. Why Technology Won’t End the Marketing Hierarchy. Notably however, only 15% of the CMOs studied had such a dual responsibility.

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Power PR Marketing Public Relations 8

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.". Michael Phelps.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Utility companies are the traditional example. 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. But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

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).

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Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

The fuzziness was a counter-intuitive advantage in engaging diverse stakeholders to define for themselves the role they would play. Innovation, creativity, design, sustainability, experimentation, entrepreneurship, inclusiveness: these are example principles to be infused into the city's collective consciousness.

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Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 15

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.

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Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 11

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. Cybercriminals are diverse and constantly changing. Only a comprehensive effort can anticipate and thwart their attacks.

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Company Banking Information Advice 8

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. Sellers must respond. Sellers must respond. ” Other times buyers seek help from salespeople.

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B2B Information Information Technology CRM 8

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. 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

JUNE 13, 2017

Digital transformation—or the way of thinking about this change—refers to the use of technology to improve the reach and performances of enterprises. Turn to Estonia for an example of a digital transformation of the social infrastructure. They are signs of profound change. It’s not limited to private enterprise.

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Content Transportation Osborne Chief Information Officer 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. Information & technology Leadership'

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Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

By early 2014, 130 people from diverse scientific and managerial backgrounds were devoting themselves to realizing the team’s mission: To be a catalyst for evidence-based decision making across AIG. In addition to the examples above, AIG currently has around a dozen decision making related projects at various stages of development.

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Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. This approach lets organizations aggregate best-of-breed technologies to develop cost-effective solutions that advance their goals. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. No single party controls the data or the information. Instead, the technology itself would do the heavy lifting of uniting the interests and business processes of the member banks. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

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

MARCH 8, 2011

In a world with severe healthcare resource constraints, mobile digital technology can be a major " force multiplier." It can empower both patients and practitioners by providing them with the information they need to make informed decisions about health issues from healthy living habits, to health care provision, and monitoring of diseases.

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Wireless Health Care Pharmaceuticals Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

For example, customer data and analysis can help you to acquire new customers, or help keep old ones. I divided the possibilities into two categories — those that are pretty aggressive on the technology front, and those that are more aggressive on the business front: Technologically-Aggressive Customer Intelligence Applications.

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Objective Attrition Workshop Retail 11

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.

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

The second group, the New Communalists, believed in doing away with all of those things and turning instead to small-scale technologies, LSD, Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, etc. as technologies with which to kind of change our minds. A great example of this on the ground in Mountain View where I live today is Google.

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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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

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.

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Human Resources Information Technology Uncertainty Finance 8