Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

These issues grow more important as companies try to pull more and more disparate data together — to develop predictive models using machine learning, for example. Since developing new language is part and parcel to innovation, you must not interfere with the process. Then people misunderstand the data and make mistakes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

PPG (originally “Pittsburgh Plate Glass”) is a splendid example of such a transformation. For example, the company may have identified the perfect acquisition target, but be outbid by a rival. Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation. For example, Umicore’s 2003 acquisition of PMG increased its revenues by 50%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. ” In Manhattan, for example, the area close to the Empire State Building faces little risk of flooding. Sponsored by Dell and Intel® Fostering sustainable growth in urban areas. What will this adaptation look like?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. First, as in this example, it’s rare that every corporate bet pays off, even when betting conservatively. All of this is right, as far as it goes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Investors have deserted equities in droves and pushed for costly anti-corporate legislation (say on pay, for example). BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. Managers clearly have to respond to regain investors' trust. From the government? Ask Solyndra.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Customer billing is a great example. Working to find and fix errors is part and parcel of most operational processes, and once they turn a harsh eye on non-value-added work, most leaders can root it out. Let's go back to the billing example once more, as it also provides good examples of lost opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

For example, at Lowe’s, the $53 billion retailer, Lowe’s Innovation Labs has a team that collaborates with outside startup companies to build prototypes. One area of focus: how technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality will be able help consumers visualize the end result of their home improvement projects.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." Once the shining example of call-center customer service, they dropped to nearly last in the industry in customer satisfaction in 2007. Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. He's "[a] man of facts and calculations. A man who is. Take Sprint.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). Fortunately, Bezos gave you his plan, if you just know where to look. Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. Taken together, this research points to the fact that most leaders just don’t get what their organizations are trying to do.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

AWOT was also able to track tweets from Chinese users overcoming cyber-blocks, remote beacons in an otherwise notably blank parcel of Asia. For example, when the Merapi volcano in Indonesia erupted on October 25th, a sudden, outlying deluge of tweets was seen on AWOT at a very early stage, within minutes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. Some of these are old scores reignited by new protagonists armed with new weapons, but quite a few are new clashes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles). based corporations – prominent examples being Skype, founded in Estonia, acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6

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