Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. What role does he or she play in the organization?

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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

APRIL 5, 2018

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. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. This is a dangerous mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Recent, well-documented examples include Progressive Insurance''s use of predictive modeling in the property and casualty insurance space and the many industrial manufacturing companies that are generating almost all their margin and profit from after-sale, value-added services based on information generated by embedded sensors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Slowly but steadily, data are forcing their way into every nook and cranny of every industry, company, and job. Managers who aren’t data savvy, who can’t conduct basic analyses, interpret more complex ones, and interact with data scientists are already at a disadvantage. Information & technology Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Health care is attracting an influx of talent from other industries to tackle some of its toughest problems. New players are fearlessly sensing the opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? No longer were technology companies main customers old, white executive managers who got their jollies off on the largest feature set at the cheapest price.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

Ever thought air mattresses in living rooms would grow into a billion dollar company that would take on the vacation rental market and the hotel industry? No longer were technology companies main customers old, white executive managers who got their jollies off on the largest feature set at the cheapest price.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Closely related to Sales Linguistics is the accelerated trend of sales force language specialization based upon the following strategies: Industry verticalization focus (finance, government, retail, etc.) Your solution might be purchased by the information technology department and used by accounting and human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Throughout the news and business coverage, the feeling that sustainability is crucial to the future of the country and its industries is palpable. China Hi-Tech Fair ready to highlight emerging industries ," which describes Chinas largest tech show going on this week in Shanghai. And on and on. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. The web-based information system can deliver Mayo’s clinical knowledge to desktop computers or mobile devices. What’s the alternative?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Most managers readily admit that their organizations’ databases are rife with errors that add time and expense to day-in, day-out work. Data quality problems bedevil managers in every industry, company, business unit, department, and process. Data Information & technology Decision making'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. It is ultimately up to each of us to make a difference. Back to the Future.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. “We are taking action now to reverse this trend, just as organizations took measures to reduce environmental pollution after the industrial revolution.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The team is self-managing and cross-functional; it includes all the skills it needs for the job. In most situations, research shows, agile works better than traditional methods of project management. It also produces better business results, particularly in highly dynamic industries. It’s quicker.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

The truth is that Gradgrind would make a terrible manager. Once the shining example of call-center customer service, they dropped to nearly last in the industry in customer satisfaction in 2007. So early on, Finance and HR collaborated to simplify the process, reducing the number of data metrics. A man who is. Take Sprint.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

Throughout history, the spinners, hucksters, and fraudulent have been motivated to "manage the numbers." Management can't change the greed that empowers these individuals (and probably shouldn't). Management can and must take steps to ensure that data — certainly data that leave the company — are of high quality.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Complexity stemming from globalization or technology rank much lower in the list of causes. The report also explains the wide range of measures companies are adopting to tackle the complexity; from cutting down management layers to simplifying product portfolios and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google Trends is fast becoming an indispensable tool for many analysts who believe — as Brin does — that the wisdom (and/or delusions) of googling crowds can successfully inform investment strategies worldwide. Google, of course, is hardly the only digital juggernaut supersaturated in an embarrassment of informational riches.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Weekly e-mails with detailed reports can also be set up, creating a comprehensive system of medication management. Sales operations must consider changes to market segmentation, territory management, and resource allocation. Operations. Engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And yet few corporate managers are asking such questions, much less taking advantage. There are over five million commercial and industrial facilities in the U.S. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. Cost Savings. alone, according to the US. Take lighting, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are spawning what many are calling a new type of industrial revolution. While both technologies refer to the same process, there is a slight nuance to each. How it will impact business, industry, and society. A cognitive system can perceive and infer, reason and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And yet few corporate managers are asking such questions, much less taking advantage. There are over five million commercial and industrial facilities in the U.S. Energy Information Administration, with a combined annual energy cost of over $200 billion. Cost Savings. alone, according to the US. Take lighting, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Such an environment enables businesses to move, manage, and mobilize the ever-increasing amount of data across the organization for consumption faster than previously possible. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects. For example, a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. The program is most often associated with the tech industry, where H-1B workers hold about 12%–13% of jobs , according to a Goldman Sachs report. jobs overall.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Similarly, directors of power companies need to understand how advances in energy storage and information technology will accelerate development of micro-grids and the decentralization of the electric grid. Boards are not the only ones under pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. How has Europe dealt with the situation? Transparency and governance issues abound. billion).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.

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