Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Example #2: Breaking into a new industry. Go well beyond job descriptions. Expand from U.S.

COO 14

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Even if they don’t become providers of systems or services, many companies will need to adapt in some way as cities become more digitally connected.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products. Another major industrial company moving to address water risk is ITT , the world's largest supplier of pumps and systems to transport, treat, and control fluids. NLine Energy, Inc.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Indeed, achieving their goals required significant behavior change from multiple players who didn’t necessarily see themselves as part of the same systems even though they served largely the same families and neighborhoods. For example, there is no agreed-upon way to measure urban revitalization. Reimagine roles.

Metrics 10

Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Transportation (e.g. What’s more, the on-demand economy is beginning to attract a diverse group of consumers. It’s also reaching a diverse geographic spread in the U.S., The on-demand economy is attracting more than 22.4 million consumers annually and $57.6 billion in spending. Ebay, Etsy), with 16.3 Instacart) at 5.5

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This became a problem for the company last week, when the taxi-hailing company found its app blocked by a German court due to a violation of the country’s Passenger Transportation Act. Uber has to contend with far more than just a foreign legal system. Here, Uber can be put to good use. As a resident of Washington, D.C.,

Operations 8

Operations Globalization Hotels Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

.” When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. What Does GM Have to Do with Tesla and Elon Musk? Days of Futures Past for Tesla.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

” As the name suggests, iCEO is a virtual management system that automates complex work by dividing it into small individual tasks. Basically, the system allows a user to drag-and-drop “virtual assembly lines” into place, and run them from a dashboard.

Software 8

Software Management Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Just as in the medical approach, this intervention will trigger positive chain-reactions, helping to cure and enhance the whole system. In terms of mobility, give priority to public transport and use all modes available in the best and most efficient way possible. As far as sustainability, observe some key tenets.

Transportation 14

Transportation Short-term Creativity Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

We at Beckton, Dickinson saw the opportunity to marry public health and business objectives through our Global Health Initiative, which we established to find sustainable ways to fortify over-burdened and under-resourced health care systems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Redefine ROI.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

As a result, we have used data visualization in places as diverse as our annual reports or our annual report app , which is obviously geared toward investors. We''re involved in everything from transportation to health, curing people to energy to building things. We wanted a diversity of points of view on a diversity of subjects.

Storytelling 10

Storytelling Airlines White Paper Audience 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

With their appetites for high risks and returns, and no legacy systems or brands to encumber them, agile young businesses produced so many breakthrough products and services that they came out ahead, even given a high rate of failure and even though it often took many experiments to arrive at a winning business model.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategy Company Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

In February, for example, I met a 31-year-old woman in Bangladesh who told me she came to Dhaka with her husband (whom she married at 15) to create a better future for their family. Safe spaces and systems that enable discussion about threats and alleviate concerns like unsafe transportation, gender-based violence, and depression.

Development 9

Development Supply Chain Health Care Compliance 9

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. One of my favorite classroom examples is GirlMeetsDress.) This "reengineering" of consumption is a natural consequence of the ongoing consumerization of digital technologies.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

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 identify five major groups (see chart: "Manufacturing is Diverse"), in which the inputs that define success vary. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. These rooms are entirely manufactured off-site at an assembly line and transported to the hotel site. The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. ” They two men were plotting to change that.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Advanced manufacturing technologies, for example, are starting to reshape the supply chain road map that’s been in place for the past few decades by reducing the importance of scale in production, increasing flexibility, and enabling production to move closer to end markets. As an example, look at the digital skills gap.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

We want education, healthcare, and transportation that works — but we're reluctant to pay the costs of these public goods. We want thriving, diverse cities — but we self-select into neighborhoods of like-for-like. Consider one tiny example. Witness, of course, the rise of the gated community.

Abell 16

Abell Hammer Construction Morale 16

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Diversity is a concept that encompasses ideas, cultures, philosophies and behaviors. Sadly, some people see diversity as a punishment, when associated with training. To the contrary, it is a gift because all of us are living examples of diversity. For many people, food equates to a reward system.

Transportation 69

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 69

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Imagine a world where data about traffic, public transportation, and pedestrian patterns is continuously analyzed to provide the smoothest possible commute for the largest number of people. Read more from Microsoft: Navigating New Zealand’s largest city with Auckland Transport and digital transformation. Estonia has only 1.3

Content 8

Content Transportation Osborne Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In addition, diversity among women in management has improved, albeit marginally. For example, so few computer and information systems managers existed in 1980 that data used here did not record this occupation. Gender, as a system of stratification, has a sneaky way of reproducing itself. Are they paid equally?

Management 11

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 11

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. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

These developments unraveled the projected confidence of leading physicians and officials of the Center for Disease Control that the disease was a low-risk threat to our country with its advanced medical systems. We’ve seen examples of these mobilizers in other times of crisis. That’s important. For that, we need a community.

Crisis 8

Crisis Crisis Management Uncertainty Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Five thousand years ago, use of the wheel began to spread from Mesopotamia across Eurasia, revolutionizing transport and enabling chariot warfare. The West defeated the Soviet Union not through warfare but by maintaining a superior economic system with higher technological standards.

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9