Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. About the Author Bill Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Communispond Inc., an organization that has taught business communications skills to more than 600,000 persons.

Planning 50

Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. So what is happening now?

Education 11

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 11

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.

Committee 14

Committee Project Audience Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Moreover, the population is aging and the size of the labor force is set to plateau in 2016 (See “China’s Labor Market” chart below). This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. That growth was driven largely by the increased use of information technology in customer analysis and supply chain optimization.

GDP 13

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. Many of the most interesting advances are in new production processes and new information technologies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Undo matters, in other words, because its appearance almost always signals that a market has gone from fringe to mainstream, with profits set to follow.

Early Adopters 15

Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. In 2010 the computer worm Stuxnet was discovered and implicated in the attack that caused physical damage to centrifuges at Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities. Information & technology Internet' Cyber Security in the Internet of Things.

Engineering 8

Engineering Software Wireless Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Our analysis shows that by the year 2020, the combined consumer markets of China and India will amount to some $10 trillion annually. But the rural markets have pockets of rising wealth. Greater use of information technology and mobile communications to empower farmers. Approximately $6.2

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Information Technology Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. While the labor challenge is especially stark in the U.S., In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

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

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market. Now consider the joint judgment involved in a process of co-creation , whereby companies collaborate with customers or other partners to bring new offerings to market.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Businesses are focusing on technological solutions to tackle complexity. Simplifying information technology systems seems to be the most popular way to tackle complexity in business, along with efforts to simplify or consolidate product and service portfolios. More information is available at www.eiu.com.

Crisis 78

Crisis Survey Analysis Finance 78

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness. What markets have these companies actually won?

First-mover Advantage 8

First-mover Advantage Advertising Marketing Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. That’s changing. Uber is another example.

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

As one example, a dozen years ago, Stewart Taggart predicted that by 2010 half of the value in the delivery of a shipping container from halfway around the world would be in the data associated with the container. There are the usual marketing questions (How do we position the newly informationalized product?

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Information Course 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments? If state-sponsored cyberwarriors go after Microsoft's, SAP's, IBM's, and/or Amazon's "cloud services" offerings and disrupt the digital nervous systems of millions of users, strong diplomatic protests seem impotent.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. Despite those trends, our research suggests that technology can in fact provide an advantage to small and new firms. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%.

Technology 10

Technology Agility Fixed Costs Software 10

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. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Serious marketers, innovators and quants can't find a better — or more controversial — case study in the problems and pathologies of predictive analytics than America's down-to-the-wire presidential campaign. Or a 30% level from the 2010 congressional election? Do they reflect probabilistic "best practice"?

Politics 15

Politics Sample Survey Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In 2002 the Commission switched course again and ruled that broadband access provided by cable TV companies was an information service — the reasoning being, in part, that cable broadband had ended the DSL monopoly and created a competitive market once again. Comcast sued, and the D.C.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8