Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. The Big Picture.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? Individual empowerment. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges! '. But is it enough?

Innovation 19

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. It’s now done by economists, data engineers, IT operatives, and anyone who has access to the data. Human resources Information & technology Talent management' Learn from Your Analytics Failures.

Succession 12

Succession Human Resources Information Technology Software 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Yet, companies and executives spend endless amounts of time and money trying to foster collaboration through technology, training, and memos instead of quickly defining the problem, framing the challenges, and inspiring people to come together and tackle it. Let’s remind ourselves of three outstanding examples of collaboration.

Guidelines 13

Guidelines Goal Follow-up Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. All of this suggests that technology, and specifically software, is behind the growing dominance of big companies. Most industries in the U.S.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While all of those perspectives are relevant, the most revealing aspect of GM’s announcement may well be what the layoffs say about broader technology trends. The mean digitalization score of workers in the advanced manufacturing sector, of which auto is a part, surged 60%, from 24 to 39 since 2002.

Industry 8

Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business. To help gazelles get off to a faster start, cities can develop local networking structures and help in attracting capital.

Company 8

Company Content White Paper Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. It’s clear that he thinks he’s gotten both too much credit and too much blame, but he has also developed an interesting theory – that good central bank performance actually breeds bubbles and crashes.

Long-term 14

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 14