Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. 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.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

That number has been climbing over time, to a point where employees — especially parents — feel stressed , overwhelmed , and maxed out. Nearly 700 employees from an information technology department participated in the experiment. Human resources Stress Work life balance'

Stress 14

Stress Human Resources Report Commitment 14

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. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Services include: Executive Coaching Group Coaching Leadership Consulting Organization and Individual Leadership Assessments Motivational Speaking Technology Leadership When we think of selfless leaders, many great names come to mind: Jesus; Gandhi; King; Lincoln; Mandela; Stockdale… the list goes on. We may even put our job on the line.

Leadership 56

Leadership Newsletter Executive Coaching Follow-up 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

With the focus properly on the amazing athletics, I doubt that many viewers paused to wonder how that feat of information technology was possible. The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time.

Committee 14

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

” He talked about how stressful and debilitating it was for ticket agents, gate agents, and flight attendants to deal with rude and ill-mannered flyers. Hointer’s salespeople are as much information resources as people who sell. As both a technology and retailer innovator — not unlike Amazon!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But, at his Building a Dynasty panel, Jackson stressed that he was always open to numbers and analyses that offered actionable insight into getting his teams to play better together. George Karl, the 7th coach in NBA history to reach 1000 wins, similarly stressed the need for serious coaches and general managers to quantify “teamness.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In our Tech Pro Research survey of chief information officers, technology executives, and IT employees, 45% of respondents saw mobile devices as the weak spot in their company’s defenses. Toss in people bringing their own unsupported devices to work and you can see why security executives are stressed. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2024

The new age of flexible of work has encouraged a culture of overwork, which is proving to be harmful to the mental health of employees.

How To 26

How To Planning Execution Process 26

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Let me emphatically stress that this experimental heuristic is not a variant of The Golden Rule. Ethics Information & technology Innovation'

Ethics 8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Its report stressed not only that the current pool of security-educated graduates and practitioners falls far short of demand, but also that "it could take up to 20 years to address the skills gap.". Education IT management Information & technology' We''re facing an eyebrow-raising talent shortfall in cyber security.

Education 8

Education Information Technology Policies Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The stress this creates serves as the key factor in determining whether or not a purchase will be made. They need to understand the nature of stress. From a psychological perspective, stress shortens attention spans, escalates mental exhaustion, and encourages poor decision making.

Stress 8

Stress Uncertainty Committee Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Consider the case of a soldier who completes a PTSD screening instrument in which she reports trouble remembering important parts of a stressful experience from the past, but is able to vividly reconstruct the experience in her conversations with the provider.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

The unprecedented loss of highly-skilled, senior workers is compounding challenges posed by aging infrastructure, rising power demand, and climate stress. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

A new CMS code may seem like a tiny matter, but this one emblemizes a larger shift toward delivering health services independently of time and place, enabled by technologies such as smartphones, sensors, and wireless health-monitoring devices — what we in the field call telemedicine.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Health care, wireless communications, real estate, information technology, and airlines are all major industries that consistently confuse and turn off their customers, leading to mistrust and disloyalty. Yes, this often stresses out the sales team.) But the financial services industry is not alone.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Wireless Industry Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

CIOs stress the need to entirely remake data architecture and applications. There's a growing appreciation among executives that the returns from big data are real indeed. But that doesn't make moving forward any easier. The investment, both in dollars and management commitment, can be large.

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Planning Strategic Planning CIO Competitive Advantage 8

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). How it effects product design and customer experience.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The best innovation team leaders I've worked with are constantly challenging their people to come up with fast, cheap and unexpected ways to stress test their deliverable before they go live. Innovators who avoid real-world tests aren't visionaries, they're cowards. Suppliers are brought in. Customers are brought in.

Leadership 13

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Information overload is everywhere , from non-stop news to rat-a-tat email inboxes.

Management 15

Management Short-term Long-term How To 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. These threats and opportunities require a clear way to test how they will play out against various social, technological, and economic assumptions.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. Take a look at any significant innovation, such as an iPhone , and you’ll find that most, if not all, of the technology came from some government program.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They also stressed organizational learning (meaning, capturing the methods of Lean so that other parts of the organizations could adopt them). Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology. Adding another religion helped these companies embed continuous improvement into their DNA.

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Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

In others, posters remind everyone to choose supplies carefully, stressing this message: “Without compromising quality, consider cost-effective alternatives.”. As they note, Cleveland Clinic is one of two medical centers worldwide that has implemented all six, beginning with integrated practice units, which we call “institutes.”

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Only when senior executives forced the two sides to work more closely together and build trust could the company capitalize on the information, by tailoring marketing messages to better explain new-product rollouts and network upgrades.

Strategy 8

Strategy Committee Retail Information 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

88 percent of game developers are male,” Heeter says , adding that “games designed to optimally appeal to women might minimize in-game performance pressure, provide real-world benefits such as stress relief, brain exercise or more quality time with family and friends, and be playable in short chunks of time.”.

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