Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. They hope AI can improve productivity, automate existing process, provide predictive analysis, and extract meaning from massive data sets. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge.

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. The need to disseminate technology. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 1992. in 2013, compared to 2.5%

Innovation 102

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 102

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Recent research hammers this home, showing that our performance drops when we try to perform both encoding tasks (experiencing what's around you) and response selection tasks (capturing stimuli) at the same time. Psychologists have long understood the power of psychological hoarding. We're wired to hoard. Humans are competitive.

Document 15

Document Venture Capitalist Maslow Hammer 15

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. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

In my book, I recount an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what?

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). You instill process improvement into the corporate DNA.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15