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

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.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Unusually Excellent is an essential resource for leaders that brings these fundamentals together in a new and comprehensive way. 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?

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Generate and nurture your own talent channels.

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

” Tell them why they’re losing their jobs, whether it’s because of a drop in demand, changes in technology, or productivity and quality issues. Then hammer out a joint plan with them. Treat employees with dignity, fairness, and respect. Address “What does it mean for me?”

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Hammer Operations Quality Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The simple Watsonian reality is that mobile devices have become cues, prompts, resources and cognitive amplifiers for a significant subset of people who carry them. These are Jeopardy's John Henrys except that they aren't going to die or even get a headache by digitally souping up their "hammers" when they compete with a Watson.

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Hammer Competitive Advantage Brainstorming Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

Our field research showed that some traditional physical stores were rapidly blending the best of physical, web, and mobile to serve their customers, while others were simply being hammered by the growth of e-commerce. We thought getting data would be pretty easy. The Census Bureau has reports galore on e-commerce, broken down by industry.

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Merchandising Retail GDP Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Thirty-six percent of them think that the primary purpose of business should be to improve society and about half of millennials — millennials are people born between 1980 and 2000 — think that businesses can do more around resource scarcity and inequality. So the millennials are going to fix everything? We don’t want to go there.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

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. and Japan.

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

Great Results Team Building

MARCH 26, 2012

The integration of technology into the hands of our students has been a topic of much discussion, but it will never replace the importance of teacher teamwork or the environment that a quality classroom provides. Whether by laptops, I-pads, smart-boards, or smart phones, your classroom has in all likelihood already been invaded by technology.

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Teamwork Technology Education Morale 150

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. Social ads minimize this type of spillage.

Advertising 9

Advertising Media Audience Follow-up 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

In more straightforward language, a man with a hammer is more likely to see nails than one without a hammer. A collection of specialists creates a less flexible labor force, one that requires "retraining" with technological developments creating constantly shifting human resource needs.

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Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20