Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

the well-known test preparation company, where he developed and launched the online college that offers Associates and Bachelors degrees and certificates in Business, Information Technology, Nursing, and Law. He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc.,

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think.

COO 13

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Using analytics, the city found a non-obvious systemic relationship—one where the dots may never have been connected otherwise—with costly unintended consequences: In fiscal year 2010, the budget allocated to the Parks and Recreation department for tree pruning was sharply reduced. Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management?

Budgeting 10

Budgeting Information Technology System Library 10

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. Two fundamentals, however, haven't changed.

Committee 15

Committee Project Audience Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Seminar Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Coordinating health care information technology requires government action, which was a decade slow in coming. The stimulus bill of 2009 allocated $30 billion for health care IT, and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 allowed significant changes in the way Medicare pays for services. Here, then, is the conundrum.

Health Care 15

Health Care Biotechnology Mayo Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 for Spain's financial sector.

CEO 11

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. As the impact of the labor bonanza and capital-led phases begins to fade, productivity growth in China must increasingly come from the quality of innovation and management expertise at the organizational level. China, too, needs more technological innovation.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not. From the early 1980s into 2000, service jobs grew at about 2.5 million a year except in recession years. This situation has changed. After the 2001 recession, the rate of growth was lower than before the recession.

Retail 15

Retail Outsourcing Technology Education 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Bradley Manning , the presumptive leaker, might have been a low-ranking member of the armed forces ( he was demoted from Specialist to Private First Class in May 2010 after assaulting another soldier), but he was an intelligence analyst supporting a brigade in Iraq. To see why, let's start with those stubborn beasts, the facts.

Information 15

Information Information Technology Document Knowledge Management 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." The Ministry of Industry and Information Technologys pavilion will demonstrate "industrial energy savings and the comprehensive use of resources." And on and on. And on and on.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In 2010, one large Asian information technology services company decided to run an experiment to see if rewards could actually improve and encourage employee ideas. Only higher-level management and those managing the rewards program knew about the experiment, which lasted 13 months.

Incentives 8

Incentives Motivation Innovation Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

There are many other risks in failing to think about Big Data as part of a human-driven discovery and management process. Although data does give rise to information and insight, they are not the same. Data's value to business relies on human intelligence, on how well managers and leaders formulate questions and interpret results.

Black-Scholes 15

Black-Scholes Software Tools Information 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

According to recent McKinsey research (see " The $30 Trillion Decathlon "), consumption by developing economies could rise from $12 trillion annually in 2010 to $30 trillion in 2025, by which time these markets could account for nearly 70% of global demand for manufactured goods. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

In cardiology alone, for example, the country spent $273 billion in total direct costs in 2010 and will spend an expected $818 billion in 2030. If we have learned anything in the years since managed care, it is that managing the cost risks cannot be delegated to primary care providers alone.

Health Care 8

Health Care Organization Incentives Metrics 8

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 11, 2019

That’s beginning to shift however, with R&D hubs emerging in countries like China, India and Israel, and a recent study argues that the role played by information technology in innovation is a major driver behind this change. Shifting R&D overseas.

Innovation 68

Innovation Human Capital Software Globalization 68

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. In 2010, Florida Power & Light estimated that 65 percent of its workforce was near or eligible to retire. The need for digitally savvy technical hires is especially pronounced.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

But saving on a large scale required managing what was saved and providing tools for retrieval, hence the multiplication of finding tools, like alphabetical indexes of various kinds, detailed tables of contents, library and sales catalogs, and bibliographies.

Information 15

Information Library Cost Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

trillion spent on health care in the United States in 2010 was wages for health care workers, and labor productivity has historically worsened at a rate of 0.6% Surprisingly, 10 of the 16 non-doctor workers are purely administrative and management staff, receptionists and information clerks, and office clerks.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

In 2010, Tim Hwang and a few friends in Cambridge found themselves questioning the costs associated with raising a few thousand dollars to launch an online project. When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010 they had a ready-made network of project managers and techies in cities all over the world.

Proposal 8

Proposal Project Crisis Information 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Notwithstanding their rapidly growing economies, China and India are a long way from attaining technological parity with developed countries like the US. In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest R&D spender (in purchasing power parity terms) after the U.S.

Globalization 14

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Complexity stemming from globalization or technology rank much lower in the list of causes. The report also explains the wide range of measures companies are adopting to tackle the complexity; from cutting down management layers to simplifying product portfolios and processes.

Crisis 78

Crisis Survey Analysis Finance 78

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Growing opportunities to collect and leverage digital information have led many managers to change how they make decisions – relying less on intuition and more on data. How quickly are managers actually making the investments and process changes required to embrace decision-making practices rooted in objective data?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology Objective Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? Insight Center.

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With all this in mind, a group at the Mayo Clinic led by the four of us developed and implemented a standardized practice model over a three-year period (2010-2012) that significantly reduced variation and improved predictability of care in adult cardiac surgery. Customer service Customers Health Information & technology Technology'

Mayo 10

Mayo Education Software Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. Similarly, Fitbit counts steps and provides some simple summaries that help people better manage their fitness. Everything is just a little better as result.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If your company uses digital networks to manage supply chains, customer relationships, internal communications, financials and/or sensitive information that might interest Chinese or Iranian cyberwarriors, then a risk assessment re-think is paramount. Business — both global and entrepreneurial — is the hard target here.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Putting data “in the cloud” essentially means paying someone else to manage it, and then connecting to their servers via the internet to access your data when you need it. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%. firms since the 1980s. Less than 0.5%

Technology 10

Technology Agility Fixed Costs Software 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 Wealth also tends to stay in-region, as outside investors tend to be locally based.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. There is other evidence of a strong demand for workers with tech skills.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

has created no net new jobs for those whose highest educational level is a high-school degree (or less) since the job market bottomed out in 2010, but it has created 4 million jobs for people with a bachelor’s degree. information technology companies to disclose their proprietary source code, which is their core competitive advantage.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. When East Germany collapsed in 1989, it was reported to have over 90,000 employees and over 170,000 informants.

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” Transparency and governance issues abound.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8