Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

For the past few decades, emerging technologies such as biotechnology, microelectronics, information technology and communications technologies have become central to the socioeconomic development of nations. These technologies improve productivity and facilitate better living standards when they penetrate into societies.

Information Technology 14

Information Technology Technology Information Trends 14

HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

More than 400 engineers and other workers at Google and its parent company, Alphabet , have formed a union open to all employees. On Monday, the group announced the creation of the AWU with an op-ed in The New York Times , after years of employees protesting for better workplace inclusivity and ethics at the search engine.

Shaw 52

Shaw Telecommunications Engineering Ethics 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2024

They determined that, although data engineers and data scientists typically take on most responsibility from conception to production of AI development lifecycles, non-technical leaders can play a key role in ensuring the integration of responsible AI.

How To 20

How To Engineering Operations Industry 20

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Cybersecurity, information technology security or computer security is the process of the protection of computer systems, programs, and networks from digital attacks or the theft or from the damage of the hardware, software, electronic data or misdirection or disruption of the services they provide. Social engineering.

Tips 69

Tips Software Banking System 69

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Engineering Work Management. About StrategyDriven.

Wireless 58

Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In just a few years digital technology has connected an ever-growing number of people, sensors, and devices. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. for leaders and 3.2%

Company 8

Company Operations Human Capital Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity.

Management 11

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 11

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. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

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. What do you think?

COO 11

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea. System Development Time. System Development Time.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of aligning all segments of your organization in the pursuit of innovation. However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. Technology start-ups are the Philippines’ latest customers, and more are flocking to the country’s beach-laden shores each year.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In the early 1990s, executives and managers welcomed information technology — databases, PC workstations, and automated systems — into their offices. Managers noted historical trends and revised processes, and engineers developed code that was then baked into computing systems. times more likely to convert.

Process 8

Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

health care system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. In response, hospitals are increasingly making analytics and new technologies an integral part of hospital operations. Photo by Matthew Payne. Ongoing U.S.

Health Care 10

Health Care System Technology Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Organization kicked off a major Reliability Engineering program, much like the efficiency initiatives of companies such as Toyota. The process also includes a determination of how much of the activities are classified as capital expenditures versus ongoing operating expenses.

Discounted Cash Flow 8

Discounted Cash Flow P&L NPV EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology.

Tools 8

Tools Competitive Advantage Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "If Lowe's is spot-on in adding HR professionals to its process improvement teams.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma Skills Team Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is to say that you don't have to wait until the end of the decade for some breakthrough technology to emerge; it's already here, albeit in bits and pieces. To speed operations and improvement, Process Strategy 2.0 The third major trend I see is the increasing need for speed in operations and improvement. Process Strategy 2.0

Process 8

Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

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. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. It’s an end-game everyone needs to keep a close eye on.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

They usually operate with clear metrics (such as profits, clicks, purchases) and can piece together a myriad of technical tricks to build very sophisticated models that drive performance. Hiring Information & technology' It’s important to get the right person for either job.

Incubator 9

Incubator Information Technology Metrics Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology. It’s a budget decision, which depends on what the principle operation is.

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In our Tech Pro Research survey of chief information officers, technology executives, and IT employees, 45% of respondents saw mobile devices as the weak spot in their company’s defenses. Android is a fragmented mobile operating system. Educating upper management is a different task for information technology executives.

Chief Information Officer 8

Chief Information Officer Wireless Download Education 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It can be inside information about the company or its industry or something that might be unrelated but leads to the point you want to make. Check out the search engines for ‘little known facts about …’ or ‘trivia about …’ for ideas. Yet another good grabber is the startling fact.

Power 56

Power Audience Kaplan Short-term 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Gledhill is Group Executive and Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank, a leading Asian bank with more than $300 billion of assets and a market capitalization of about $35. “I was struggling to understand at a deep level what was happening inside the phone, which made it hard to function as a leader of technology.”

Banking 8

Banking Technology Learning-by-Doing Download 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The Google case should motivate telecoms and global corporations to integrate privacy into their operational models, instead of treating them solely as issues of compliance. Reputation management companies, which work to bury search engine results, could also offer request services to individuals. Information & technology Innovation'

Innovation 8

Innovation Safe Harbor Compliance Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of innovation among all sectors of your company. However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology. In 1984, Apple Inc.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

For the second, companies should set up and manage a "data factory," staffed by process engineers and others with deep technical skills who "get the job done"; a tight structure that promotes consistency, scale, and decreasing unit cost; a shorter-term focus; and a culture that values quality and revenue above all else.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Long-term Industry Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

.” Studying manufacturers that were releasing successful innovations far faster than competitors, the authors identified a team-oriented approach that changed the design and development process for products such as copiers at Fuji-Xerox, automobile engines at Honda, and cameras at Canon. The Information Age was exploding.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Perhaps the prediction and explanation of an engineer who is proud to have improved a piece of the variable in question. “We Algorithms only operate on the inputs they’re provided. Information & technology Technology' 2014 is the new normal. We got a one-time boost because we turbocharged the knurdle valve.”

Tacit Knowledge 10

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 10