Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. As with earlier technologies, we are now hearing advice about “AI strategies” and how companies should hire Chief AI Officers. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Let me illustrate the difference with a common example. Decision making Information & technology Operations'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. It can even be quantified. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

If you needed a hammer, for example, someone would manually produce one for you. The industrial revolution enabled the mass production of hammers with consistent quality and lower cost. Let me illustrate the difference with a common example. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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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. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. ” In his family’s living room, his proud parents give him his “grandpappy’s” giant hammer. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? MISTAKE #2: Underestimating the impact of small acts of dishonesty. ’ Great organizations encourage risk-taking.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.”

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Fast forward to the mid-to-late 1980s, when a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Daniel Jones, Daniel Roos, and James Womack , surveyed production systems at 90 automobile assembly plants in 17 countries. Histograms 1 and 2 are examples of possible results for 2 suppliers of parts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” This is driven by big technological advancements, as more and more people gain access to infrastructure vital for commerce and entrepreneurship to thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

For example, several companies embarked on Six Sigma programs after their CEO heard about GE's success with the approach, and many other companies have adopted Lean because of Toyota's success. Consider this example. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Every time a die-hard Prius owner sees an ad for a gas-guzzling SUV, for example, it represents a major waste of resources.) Not only are engagement rates bound to plummet if you hammer users on their home turf with repetitive messaging, but you may end up losing more business than you gain. 2) Take advantage of targeting features.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I’ve given passing thought to dieting, but other than a few points that have been hammered into all of us (e.g., “Too For example, I often take a long bike ride on summer Sundays. I heard great example recently. Information & technology Personal effectiveness' I like to exercise and get plenty. But let’s be careful.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

It is used in the more technical end of the financial industry, for example in derivatives valuation. Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. That’s kind of a deep insight.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. For example, China is the largest producer and exporter of steel and the largest source of excess steelmaking capacity. Forced technology transfers and theft. Although the U.S., production. In May, the U.S.,

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