Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2016

Huge real-world challenges still exist to the wide adoption of the technology, but let’s say for a moment we get all this working, and our cities become flooded by driverless vehicles. As for any powerful new technology, we must ask ourselves: What could go disastrously wrong? As for any transportation system, trust is essential.

Transportation 8

Transportation Supply Chain System Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. But that’s only one side of the story. New vehicle models could help the concept break through with them.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Economic activities centered around online platforms, where independent sellers can offer goods or services to customers, are attracting significant consumer attention and spending, according to new data from the National Technology Readiness Survey* (NTRS), which has tracked technology behaviors and beliefs in the U.S. since 1999.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Fortune 500 executives spend a fair amount of time thinking about how automation and the Internet are changing the nature of employment, but they rarely wonder how technology will have an impact much closer to home: on their own jobs. The hiring of oDesk contractors for this project, for example, was itself an oDesk assignment.).

Software 8

Software Management Technology Project 8

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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Management Energy Asset Management 15

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. Over the past three centuries, the spread of industrial technologies gradually weakened Britain while stimulating the United States. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 8

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.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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. but also the risks.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Our teams work in partnership to provide technical assistance and training to expand lab workers'' skills, secure pricing agreements to increase access to our products, and design medical technologies appropriate for resource-limited settings. Redefine ROI. Learn in order to teach.

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 8

Storytelling Airlines White Paper Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Take, for example, the challenge of bringing about any major innovation in healthcare. The same is true in the energy and transportation sectors, and in the realm of “smart cities.” Mechanisms would have to be designed to enable these diverse people and ideas to be combined. Big companies have all these processes in place.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategy Company Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others.

Glocalization 11

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have seen examples of great health care all over the world, but too often the inspiring individuals delivering this care have been impeded, rather than helped, by the system in which they are working. But no country is delivering these transformational changes.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

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. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra.

Transportation 65

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 65

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

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Fueling this dynamism, Africa is adopting technology at a furious pace: it will soon have double the number of smartphone connections than North America. In Nigeria, for example, SABMiller developed a new brand, Hero. billion by 2050. Yet Africa remains a challenging place to do business.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. How the best companies get up to speed. The reason? These groups must work together.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 8, 2023

The low representation of the female gender across organizations is alarming, which has sparked the topic of gender diversity. The enforcement of this law is a major step in improving gender diversity across various industries and ensuring that the laws at the workplace are more rigid and taken seriously.

Short-term 111

Short-term Diversity Long-term Transportation 111

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

But Lieberman and Fry have some good news: modern technology can address the root of the problem. They believe that we compete when there is scarcity, and that recent technological advances, such as 3D printing and artificial intelligence, will end widespread scarcity. This is the bad news. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Technology 8

Technology Cooper Efficiency Globalization 8