Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In rare cases, a leader’s sphere of influence can extend across an entire industry, nation, or even all of society. An effective CEO such as Steve Jobs for example, can cause financial markets to shift, buying patterns to stall, or entire industries to scramble. But as that manager achieves success, trust begins to build.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Predictions of technological change are often very similar, which perhaps explains why the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) famously found that just 10% of technology predictions made by experts between 1990 and 2007 were accurate.

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Technology Survey Fashion Information Technology 109

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The evaluation team usually consisted of 2 to 4 people, led by either an Information Technology (IT) or a user contact who was most familiar with the current system and needs. However, the best sales pros will still provide value in the form of the latest technology industry trends to buyers.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The number of women in high paying jobs and entering the job market has risen progressively through the years, but there are many hurdles in their journey up the ladder. . For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 85 women were promoted. . The gender wage gap is pervasive in many industries, especially those still dominated by men.

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HR Digest

MARCH 12, 2020

Here we have listed top careers for HR professionals to help you carve a niche in the industry you desire. You can pursue the traditional role and become a human resource executive responsible for hiring, firing, onboarding, employee management, and engagement. This role is similar to what a management consultant does for a company.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

What are the media and industry analysts paying attention to? A: Managing professional services tends to be highly predictable with a steady positive cash flow. Whereas, managing a product business can result in very unpredictable swings in monthly revenue generation. . Is there a pattern to this activity? A Culture of Voice.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Information doesn’t necessarily mean understanding. One of the best sources of understanding is experience, such as in-market know-how, familiarity with competitors and customers, or expertise in leading during turbulent times. Excessive information gets in the way of understanding. Understanding comes in many shapes and forms.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Over the past three decades, the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

It is a competitive market in today’s economy. After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. Employ Internal Multisourcing. Engage Customers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. Over the past five years, Apple and Google have made significant moves in the automotive, healthcare, media, and smart home markets, among many others.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. and Musk’s approach works well when there is a lot of technological uncertainty (can we build it?). “I

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. Really, we couldn’t find any industry where this phenomenon wasn’t happening. DAVID: Yeah.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2016

Our world is too complex, markets too volatile, and technology too fast-paced for us to relax into complacency about organizational safety and normalcy. Her private sector career has spanned the information technology, architecture, strategic consulting, and automotive industries. What’s a leader to do?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Second, the liberation of patients’ data makes it possible for consumer-oriented third parties to use that data (with patients’ permission) to provide new and useful services that help patients manage their own health and make better health care choices. Health data is extremely valuable on illicit markets.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. The case instructs students in the value of deconstructing an industry into its component parts.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2013

They’re destined to transform the “Internet of Things” from a post-industrial aspiration to a trillion-dollar sector. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. While the labor challenge is especially stark in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

About the Author Doug Moran has more than twenty-five years of leadership experience in a variety of industries. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology. Doug is the author of the forthcoming book, If You Will Lead : Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders.

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Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

From those early, mainframe-led revolts, the revolution spread to engulf every industry in every part of the globe. But if accounting once led to widespread computerization, marketing is leading today’s digital revolution. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Most people understand the general concept of cloud computing, but fail to grasp the specific impacts it has on their industry. The revolution of cloud computing actually preserves the basic structure of how businesses have used information technology resources for the last few decades. Cloud Architecture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The repercussions span industries and regions. We focus on five key verticals where the IoT will be tested first: Connected Wearable Devices, Connected Cars, Connected Homes, Connected Cities, and the Industrial Internet. Within the vast Industrials sector, the IoT represents a structural change akin to the industrial revolution.

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Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

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

JUNE 6, 2014

We are in an Information Revolution — and have been for a while now. The arrival of the Internet of Things or the Industrial Internet is generating previously unimaginable quantities of data to measure, analyze and act on. The disproportionate spending on services is a sign of immaturity in how we manage data.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. markets, but we know we are exposing ourselves at home.” And Europe’s concerns are global concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

As technology continues to change and challenge even the most successful incumbent organizations in every industry, the cost of inertia is growing. Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. There is also the issue of politics — including at the board- management-team levels.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff. Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Indeed, even organizations where top management keeps their eyes glued to KPI-driven dashboards have trouble agreeing on what their Top Ten Most Important Customer/Client 80/20 analytics should be. Should management refine and dig deeper into existing 80/20 KPIs? is the challenge top management needs to both ask and rise to.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Meanwhile, information-based businesses — which used to sell, you know, information — now sell outcomes and peace of mind. We are in the midst of a digital business transformation in all industries. Consequently, CIOs and business leaders with a technology focus face more cacophony and challenge than ever before.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

It is consumers that have made Africa the fastest growing mobile market in the world. For instance, the United Kingdom, with barely 7% of Africa's population, has a bigger telecom industry in terms of revenue. The market is completely open. The focus on consumers up to now has been perfectly understandable.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Lean production , which includes a vastly expanded role for front-line workers in addressing problems, was brought to the United States by Toyota in its auto plants but has now spread to health care, professional services, and virtually every other industry. Clearly, well-run operations and careful talent management went hand-in-glove.

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