Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Many organizations today are wondering how to get into machine learning, and what it means for their existing analytics operation. 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.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. Other managers might take notice and started building their own databases. IT as Process Creator.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

The more I delight in His Word and letting it permeate into the fabric of my soul has given me the essential tools to build an unshakable foundation as a leader. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

And yet front-line employees are still often left operating with data that’s “too little, too late.” However, through a new culture and technology strategy, the company pivoted and raised its Net Promoter Score by 18 points. Data is not always shared efficiently. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

CRM 10

CRM Banking Learning-by-Doing Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Most companies are hard at work building technology to better protect themselves and their users or customers. But technology can only get us so far. We tried to simplify this by creating a security help form on our intranet as well as offering tours of our Global Security Operations Center. Is it phishing? Weak passwords?

Workshop 12

Workshop Education Brand Participative 12

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

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Up until now, at least in the U.S.,

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

By applying design thinking, a concept popularized by IDEO founder David Kelly and Stanford’s d.school, which was first applied to the design of physical objects, then other products, such as technological tools, and now to more complex challenges across a wide variety of industries.

Planning 8

Planning Participative Wilde Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The second is technology. Collaboration tools like Dropbox and Evernote. Recent examples include projects at firms such as General Electric, Staples, and dozens of other Fortune 1000 enterprises that span functional areas from marketing to strategy to human resources to operations.

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Bureaucracy Cost Wilde 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

And instead of optimizing specific marketing tasks, or working within individual marketing channels, these new tools can handle the entire process across all channels. When it comes to choosing a tool, know what you want. Some tools focus on a single channel or task, such as optimizing the website content shown to each customer.

ROI 14

ROI Tools Marketing CRM 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

So what makes artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) champions confident that their technologies will be immune to comparably counterproductive outcomes? The enterprise history of personal productivity tools offers plenty of unhappy litanies of unintended consequences. They shouldn’t be so sure. Insight Center.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. For example, in common practice, processes and tools have become the driver of work, not individuals and interactions. In many organizations, there are tell-tale signs of “faux pods” — teams that call themselves pods but don’t actually operate that way.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. For decades, the production of corn has been led by family-based businesses who operate their farms with a time-tested mix of traditional agriculture tools. farms have signed up to use FarmLogs to manage their operations.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8