Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems. Information & technology Leadership Strategy' Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company? To what extent?

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Many executives pine for their internal IT systems to give them a more consumer-friendly experience. With consumer IT, the services on offer are, for the most part, “point” solutions delivered from the cloud, operating in an asynchronous mode. Operating this way today is a big no-no in the corporate world.

Execution 8

Execution Hotels Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Giving up any form of revenue or market share at a large health system these days would be a courageous decision, but these health systems can make up the revenue (and more) by focusing on performing highly complex, specialized procedures—which often have the biggest of all profit margins—and building a national market for those procedures.

Health Care 8

Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

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. And busting the government monopoly on active defense would probably increase the diversity, imagination, and effectiveness of the counterhacking community.

Film 9

Film Information Technology Globalization Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

To complete the revolution in IP voice, however, we still need to untangle the remnants of profoundly complicated regulatory machinery that for decades carefully controlled the Bell System at the federal and state levels. We need to figure out quickly the optimal path to the overdue end-of-life for our venerable phone system.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

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. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

Porter 13

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 13

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. As a result, team optimism and ambition can be wasted on activities that lack focus.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

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.

CRM 14

CRM Micromanagement Technology Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

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

Company 8

Company Banking Information Advice 8

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.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

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. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

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.

Quality 11

Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Within a couple of years we set up a lab of about 15 people — mathematicians, computer scientists, statisticians, and systems engineers — and spent half our time immersed in enormous AT&T data issues (we helped the company save hundreds of millions) and the other half extending the principles of quality management to data.

Organization 14

Organization Wireless Diversity Quality 14

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?

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

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 the city didn’t realize the promised benefits.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 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. The most forward-thinking companies are developing new business models to create value from these kinds of information exchanges. (2)

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 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. Urban digital nervous system.

Content 8

Content Transportation Osborne Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The four-story glass building designed by Norman Foster seamlessly integrates a long and diverse list of technical achievements — from the enormous solar panel array on the roof to hidden cable management mechanisms at the workstations — all according to Jobs’s uncompromising design standards. Peter’s Square in Rome.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents. These tools must be customized to the population and integrated across the system.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

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.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 13

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. That’s all a way of ignoring the systems that make the world possible. It’s boring.

Information Technology 11

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 11

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. “The workers coming in on H-1Bs are a diverse crowd,” Hanson says.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9