The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2020

Salvation is offered, as it so often is, by a second report , this time from consulting firm Accenture, which also highlights the struggles executives are having in getting the most out of the latest technologies. Timing : Creating an appropriate sequence and roadmaps for deploying new technology.

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How To Technology Maturity Agility 86

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This is to address growing demand and ever-evolving technology. Plus, they can focus on patient care and develop cost-effective IT strategies. This means high-quality, dependable technology that helps clinics perform better and better manage their resources. With IT services, the clinic can scale its IT resources as needed.

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Compliance Management Software Risk Management 120

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. Does your strategy capitalize on that?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

The access to the management information created by these core systems should be enabled through some combination of data warehousing and data analytics systems (the backbone of any solid “Big Data” technology environment.

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Information Management Storytelling Fashion 150

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Ajay is a technologist and business strategist who often obsesses over issues that range from the impact of technology on disruptive business models to entrepreneurship and impact investing. Global firms have employed blue ocean strategies to cater their services and offerings to the BoP (Bottom of Pyramid).

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Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Apple on its pay-roll has incredibly talented team members who are working on autonomous systems and associated technologies. When Apple shifted its strategy in 2016, it also laid off workers from this same group. Through a spokesperson, Apple has acknowledged the move, saying, however, that there are still opportunities in the space.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Insight Center.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

It used to be “What’s your IT strategy?” ” Then it was “What’s your internet strategy?” ” Now it’s “What’s your digital strategy?” — digital strategy is on fire as today’s “it” strategy. Insight Center.

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Strategy Technology Strategic Planning Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy. But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used.

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Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

It is striking how much confusion there is between strategy, implementation, and execution. Is “strategy” a matter of making choices about where we want to go, where we play and how we win, of setting goals and actions, about how we create and capture economic value over time? Let’s start with strategy.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. The government strategy to push legal services online has supported this growth, with the government highly influential in the way the legal profession operates.

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Budgeting Participative Marketing Operations 40

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hired the right people to effectively execute its strategies. Complimentary Resource – Recruitment Technology. The most important decision a company makes about employees is whether to hire them. Complimentary Resource – Social Media Basics for Recruiting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Among my questions to them: How are you thinking about strategy these days? Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. This poses a dilemma for consulting firms.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Most organizational leaders struggle to align day-to-day activities with strategy, even though they know it’s important to do. The first — which we’ll call Company A — focuses on translating its strategy into action as quickly as possible. Before rewiring operations, leaders: wrestle with the nuances of the strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

And they love to pursue them, deadline commitments or old strategies be damned. They forget that the strategy which took them from small to midsize has already proven itself a winner. So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In this blog we take a look at three reasons why you need to get a Technology Consulting Company on board and how they can help you. Having an IT strategy in place means that while your business continues to grow and succeed, your IT systems can support that growth and contribute to it. Future Proofing Your Business.

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Consultative Technology Budgeting Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. As Kawashima recalled, "We had no strategy other than the idea of seeing if we could sell something in the United States." Don't over-plan when doing the unheard-of.

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Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Take insurance, for example. John Deere is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader. As overall business strategy planning ties closer to IT strategy, four personas of the next-generation CIO will emerge: 1.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

That digital focus helped Adidas reshape its strategy for today’s mobile, more empowered consumer. The brand embraces data and technology as a way to be faster and smarter in a world where marketers are competing for consumer attention in the moment. ” Data-Driven Growth in a Digital World. ” Read More. .

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Content Brand Storytelling Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

But all three strategies are wrong-headed. Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. And it hurts your image as a leader. Is that right?”

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Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 14

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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Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Economic performance for organizations whose CIOs were part of the overall development of strategy outpaced that of other organizations by a scale of two to one as discovered in our Economist and HBR studies. Define Your Strategy. CIOs must be an integral and vocal part of conversations on new ventures and resource allocation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? Most have done a great job of containing their financial reporting and compliance risks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., For the past 10 years, my research, writing, and consulting have focused on the question of how to build robust ecosystem strategies. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

For entrepreneurs, investors, and policy makers, there is plenty to learn from both the strategy and the outcome. Better Place''s most visible and best-publicized innovation was its switchable battery technology, a novel way to overcome the short-range limits and long recharge times dictated by existing battery technology.

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Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

The insights and the workshops have since influenced how Mars assesses risks and opportunities and develops strategy. This means identifying risks and opportunities early enough to allow the company to adapt its strategy or in extreme cases, change it. Consider the example of Pratt and Whitney, a United Technology company.

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Competitive Intelligence Agility Workshop Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

This all sounds splendidly disruptive: new technology-enabled social media redefining what we think of as sport. But the real benefit for Vans was that its strategy made the sport mainstream and opened it up to the masses, which ultimately had huge benefits for its core shoes and clothing businesses. Innovation Strategy'

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Industry Sports Advertising Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers. A far better strategy is to take the people that they have and develop them into blended executives.

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CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

While the technology giant's second-quarter revenue increased by 3%, its relatively new CEO, Leo Apotheker, was forced to lower the forecast for revenue for the fiscal year. The technology market is the epitome of creative destruction. HP's strategy for decades has been to not have a single approach to solving customer problems.

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Software Technology Intellectual Capital Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Southwest Airlines’ decades-long strategy of “short-haul, high-frequency, point-to-point, low-fare service” produced what was not only one of the best-performing airlines in the U.S. For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Strategy'

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It's an important move, more for what it tells us about Google and the evolution of its strategy than it does about the restaurant rating game. Using mobile technology, users could scan the Google logo to find out more. Today, Google announced that it had acquired Zagat , the popular restaurant ratings provider.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Review Comparison Quality 14

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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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

An innovation strategy has to include both. Yet, its strategy for almost three decades has largely been that of a sustainer, not a disruptor. Its fortunes have been built upon its successes in pushing the technological frontier of the microprocessor. How has this strategy worked? Let’s examine a few examples. Absolutely.

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