Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

As GHDonline’s rapid growth and success have demonstrated, they can indeed be a valuable tool for improving the efficiency, quality, and the ultimate value of health care delivery. The increasing access to high speed Internet and mobile devices and applications has also facilitated the success of GHDonline. The Launch.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

A revolution in information technology has transformed businesses around the globe over the past two decades. More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. A parallel transformation is now taking hold in the nonprofit sector. But it's worth the effort.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Between January 2008 and February 2010, 8.8 But actually, after a reorganization, the survivors are critical to the organization’s future success, so if you offer to restructure you own job, it will typically be perceived positively. That kind of thinking ended during the recession of 2007-2009. million jobs were lost.

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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 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

The situation is such that if a physician from the 1950s were magically brought back to life today, he would recognize none of the technology that a contemporary doctor uses, but he would feel quite at home in the settings in which the technology is used. When people want financial information, they can get it right away, day or night.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations. According to the American Institute of Physics (PDF) , as of 2010, there are about 9,400 physics teachers teaching undergraduates every September in the United States. Education Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

In my 2010 HBR piece , I reviewed some of the ways in which firms are doing this, and the story continues. New technologies, industry standards, and approaches to tagging and labeling are enhancing the ability of consumers to trace the origin of goods.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

This was the insight that made Michael Greenbaum, Edmund and Williams O'Connor — the fathers of modern financial derivatives — so successful. Although data does give rise to information and insight, they are not the same.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

That way, local social entrepreneurs can mimic what works elsewhere and share their ideas, successes, and failures. 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. Here are two organizations doing just that.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In 2010, when MD Anderson decided to introduce time-driven activity-based costing , a method for measuring costs of treating a patient’s medical condition across a cycle of care, the ICCI provided the leadership and resources to develop the capabilities for a pilot project and then to scale the approach across the institution.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

“Our study shows that some of the most successful companies today are the ones that are tackling this challenge head on by simplifying their organizations or business practices.&#. Businesses are focusing on technological solutions to tackle complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

” Following pathbreakers such as Caesar’s CEO Gary Loveman – who attributes his firm’s success to the use of databases and cutting-edge analytical tools – managers at many levels are now consuming data and analytical output in unprecedented ways. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

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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'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. ” And the road to success was in many ways the same. This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

What many don't realize is that as part of those funds, the incentives created to digitize medical records were massive — amounting to $40,000 to $65,000 per physician and $11 million per hospital for the "meaningful use" of health information technology. That's quite frankly still how U.S. health care performs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Elite media companies confirm their firewalls have been breached by successful Chinese cyberattacks. Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments? American banks reportedly come under hostile cyberattack from Iran.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 The Information Technology Industry Council has identified at least 22 laws in 13 European countries that regulate the localization of data. Wealth also tends to stay in-region, as outside investors tend to be locally based. And the amounts involved are huge.

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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. The trick will be to put together enough success stories to scale up the effect on the U.S.

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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.” billion in 2014. Developing a risk-tolerant culture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Predicting the next President of the United States is, after all, at least as interesting and insightful a marketing challenge as forecasting commercial success for a new tablet or automobile. Or a 30% level from the 2010 congressional election? Have polls truly oversampled Democrats relative to Republicans and independents?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Court of Appeals (with Clinton appointee David Tatel writing the majority opinion there, too) ruled in 2010 that the FCC had failed to offer adequate justification in the law for its actions — it had basically just cited some vague exhortations from the Communications Act of 1934. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

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