Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

for example, a backlog of baby-boomer retirees is expected to turnover upwards of 40 percent of utilities'' 400,000-strong workforce, according to a study by the Task Force on America''s Future Energy Jobs produced by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). In the U.S., The need for digitally savvy technical hires is especially pronounced.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2023

For businesses, technology has a variety of interconnected impacts including unintended consequences, data risks, and appropriateness of technological uses, as well as broader environmental concerns.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Unfortunately, many of us have developed expertise in only one field (software engineering, information technology [IT], marketing, biotechnology, automobile manufacturing, the food industry, etc. For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Many leaders spend their energies focusing on their personal rewards and status, rather than focusing on the greater good of those they serve. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology. Lately selflessness has not been an attribute that is highly celebrated in leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

For the past several years we have watched with increasing dismay at the increasing chasm between information technology (IT) groups and their business counterparts. And half-hearted efforts are akin to putting in just enough energy to jump halfway across the stream. Information & technology IT management'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

True victory lies in capturing the imagination, respect and energy of a broad and diverse set of stakeholders, including suppliers, customers and executives. As analysts, we need to expand the organization’s “smartwidth” – its capability to understand and act on information.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2024

Entering a foreign market comes with inherent challenges. Many global companies tend to overcome those challenges by minimizing their foreignness and assimilating into the local environments. However, maintaining and embracing foreignness can yield unforeseen advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

In its simplest terms, it means outsourcing your company's information technology (IT) needs, from data and storage to software. The study showed that, compared to running their own applications, by outsourcing companies can reduce the energy use and carbon footprint of computing by up to 90 percent! This is very good news.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Connected Homes are perhaps the clearest next proving ground for the IoT, combining both the potential to spawn new lines of products and services in areas such as security cameras and kitchen appliances, and the chance to reduce energy use and costs through smart thermostats and HVAC systems. Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Peter Drucker was on to this truth many years ago, writing that “your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.” Digital technology brings the possibility of real-time employee engagement on a global scale.

Management 10

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. It’s about focus and mental cycles: How much time and energy do you put toward managing in-house technology activities?”. He believes technology leadership is about to undergo a shakeout.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

One energy company, for example, observed that their customer losses were closely correlated to the intensity of customers’ Google searches for an energy supplier. Information & technology Marketing' giving credit where credit isn’t necessarily due.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. Health Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Based on our work with clients in a variety of industries from financial services to energy, here are three ways we’ve seen organizations embrace the analytics opportunities of today and transform from being the constraint into being the change agent for their company’s future. Information & technology Leadership'

Banking 8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role.

NGO 14

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Unfortunately, this creates two problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Activate the recycling machine: Your brain consumes 20% of the body’s energy even though it only uses 2% of the body’s volume. This means that when your body lacks energy, your brain will suffer too. Doing either also gives your brain a break.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

New research shows that people who use tracking technologies are more likely to be successful in losing weight and getting in shape. A similar trend is underway in energy conservation. Nest customers could then benchmark their energy usage against others in the community. Information & technology Marketing Social media'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Use a higher level of energy than you used in the earlier parts of the presentation. the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. Spell it out, step-by-step.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

For Africa, trade and investment could enlisting the entrepreneurial energy of its citizens — both home and abroad. Nigeria moved from a GDP of $35 billion to $207 billion within a decade largely because of massive investment from foreign business partners in information technology and banking.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Critical industry sectors from energy and banking to transportation and health care answer to different government agencies or regulators. Take, for example, the energy industry: According to one recent Congressional report , the computer systems that drive the U.S. Government Information & technology Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

As markets mature, more of the processes move to partners and other providers, so the industry leaders can spend their time and energy on high-value processes that contribute to their competitive differentiation. Information & technology IT management Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

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. Many of the most interesting advances are in new production processes and new information technologies. but also the risks.

Globalization 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

As Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War , "know the enemy and know yourself and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated; when you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal; if you are ignorant of both your energy and yourself, you are certain to be defeated."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

P&G has made considerable progress in getting agreement on the what story quickly, and then spending more time and energy on the why and how topics. Information & technology Leadership Presentations' A really complete story may have all of these focus elements. Depth: There is also a depth dimension to analytical stories.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

From connected cars, iPhone-controlled locks (versions of which here, here, and here are in or close to production), to the hypothetical "smart fridge" that will one day order milk for me when I''ve run out, these technologies bring with them the promise of energy efficiency, convenience, and flexibility.

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Engineering Software Wireless Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

But tomorrow, without Big Bang reform for our administrative state, the same fate may befall entrepreneurs working in 3D printing, health and fitness tracking devices, smart energy and transportation, and pretty much every other industry where Big Bang Disruption is imminent. Information & technology Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

If there is only one thing a business intelligence initiative can focus on, we would say, put all that energy and focus on more dynamic, forward-looking course correction. Information & technology' As volatility increases and uncertainty builds, the need for more frequent course correction accentuates.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

But there's more good news: The information technology revolution just lowered the cost of experimentation. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be a headhunter in Hong Kong, there are more than a million published resources online that can inform your decision.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Most companies are unprepared for the emerging revolution in predictive energy analytics. In fact, many readers’ eyes will have already glazed over at the preceding sentence, with the natural initial reaction that energy-related data isn’t relevant to their jobs. alone, according to the US.

Energy 8

Energy Resources Information Technology Cost Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

As companies devote increasing time and energy in gathering massive quantities of data, many neglect a critical first step: Get most responsibility for data out of the IT Department. Part of my motivation in getting responsibility for data into the business is to free up IT to do what it does best. So where is that?

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