Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The company involved is a large, well-known technology and services vendor, with over 5 million businesses as customers, 50 major product and service categories, and hundreds of applications. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Managers must learn to trust models that they don’t fully understand.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Just as it’s hard to remember what life was like before the iPhone, it can be hard to remember business before there was CRM software — back when you still had to explain that it stood for “customer relationship management.” The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

CRM 8

CRM Management Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Google’s strategy to date has been to build great consumer software, then extend these popular applications to enterprises with additional features, often at a fraction of the cost of competitors. Still others offer different deciding factors, like whether management is supportive. The comparison to the PC is telling.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If the technologies that help us look for a job have changed in significant ways, I reasoned, it’s likely that the ways we get information about jobs have also changed. In the early 1970s it became clear that the most effective way to find a job through networking was to be in touch with as many weak ties as possible.

Storytelling 14

Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 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.

Company 8

Company Stress Participative Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell. Wild cycles, for sure.

Technology 8

Technology Learning Curve Tips Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Technology is changing every facet of work, including how companies profile and select their employees. The development of different apps, software, and algorithms has produced many novel methodologies for screening job candidates and evaluating their potential fit for a role or organization. That is not enough. Not at all.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Wilde Document 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If Gerber's failed adult food business had been born outside of its existing organization, would the managers have distributed a product that looked like Gerber baby food? Leaders must manage internal transfer pricing to ensure the development of viable business models. This is the second post in a three-part series.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Companies will maintain only a minimal full-time staff of executives, key managers, and professionals and bring in the rest of the required talent as needed in a targeted, flexible, and deliberate way. The second is technology. There are two reasons such a flexible work system is now plausible.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Bureaucracy Cost Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. John describes a start-up, Crowd Comfort, whose software allows human beings to talk to their buildings via smart phones about such things as heat, light, and air flow. Wishful thinking.)

Engineering 8

Engineering Welch Media Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Increasingly, they are turning to hackathons — weekend events where coders, data geeks, and designers conspire to build software solutions in just 48 hours — to get new ideas and fill their capacity gap. Wild, right? Organizations also need to be willing to get down-and-dirty with the data geeks during the weekend.

Metrics 9

Metrics Information Analysis Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

Yet the complexity of cloud-based technology also helped me catch the perpetrator. For the convenience of using an online service that we don''t have to manage, we trade our privacy and risk the confidentiality of our data. For instance, an IT department can deploy a private cloud using open-source software, such as ownCloud.

Document 8

Document Open-book Bottom-up System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Changes in enterprise IT over the past decade mean that every company is now a technology company. Their IT and security teams are peripheral concerns, costs to be managed rather than centers of excellence that support the core business. vulnerability intelligence (what is being exploited in the wild?), Security & privacy IT'

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Tactics Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

AI systems don’t need to create personas; they find real customers in the wild by determining what actual online behaviors have the highest probability of resulting in conversions, and then finding potential buyers online who exhibit these behaviors. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Did this spend increase ROI?

ROI 14

ROI Tools Marketing CRM 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Software doesn’t always end up being the productivity panacea that it promises to be. As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings. For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This week a European technology business I’ve invested in was due to come to San Francisco, where I live, to launch its first product targeted at the U.S. The Bay Area is the heart of innovation in the software industry; coming here to bring their businesses to life is the dream of many tech founders. executive orders.

Policies 8

Policies Innovation Software Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. Agile software development. Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. Working software over comprehensive documentation.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8