Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. The town, “Tehachapi, CA,” was familiar—as it was the town my family and I adopted when we were assigned to Edwards AFB in 2011. The name scribbled in the “From” section of the label was not one I recognized.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. But many of the trends are picking up speed now and should become even more pronounced in 2013. million in 2011. Right now, only 6% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. What Google could do better.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

With job growth lagging and an eager workforce that's unable to find opportunities that match their skill sets , it would be a mistake for hiring managers to lose faith in peoples' ability to learn, adapt, and produce in new roles. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Cisco's Deborah Henken, senior manager with Learning@Cisco.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After the toppling of Dictator Ben Ali in January 2011, whose stifling reign lasted nearly a quarter century, the country faced a rocky start to a new ruling order. After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. In 2013, the business expanded further by launching the Luminar Audience Platform for buying targeted online audiences.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2014

of all calls in 2011 to 21.2% For Rob Bellmar, InterCall’s Executive Vice President of Conferencing and Collaboration, the problem is largely about how technology has changed the way we communicate, and thus, the values we attach to it. The beach…it was a video call so I kept my tablet up so that my bikini didn’t show”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. In February 2011, Breton announced that he was banning email. . So, he took steps to eliminate what he believed were negative effects on company productivity. percent to 7.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

.’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Adobe Dreamweaver) as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. The first step was to hire someone to run it. ” Hiring for Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Frustrated by these limitations, the global information-technology service provider Atos, headquartered in France, sought an internal collaboration system that would do away with email’s “closed” form of communication.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’ the questions must be asked, ‘WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?’” A better litmus test for keeping or killing a brand may be purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

In 2013, I began reporting on a groundbreaking all-women special operations team made up of the finest, fittest and most driven soldiers chosen from across the Army, Guard, and Reserve. And their experience offers a lesson in managing change, building teams, and integrating the best talent for the right job.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Listening to the breathless commentary surrounding technologies such as AI and robotics and one could be minded to believe that technology is transforming life as we know it on a scale never seen before. in 2013, compared to 2.5% in 2013, compared to 2.5% The need to disseminate technology. in 1992.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

healthcare spending set to grow 5 percent – or more than $100 billion – each year through 2013, businesses are scrambling for ways to save money on their health benefits. Active management of healthcare delivery and cost control has not typically been seen as an integral part of the mission for human resource (HR) departments.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. Google Internet Technology' Can we do better?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On September 16, 2011, the America Invents Act (AIA) , a major modification to the Patent Act, was signed into law – a modification that makes the kind of “public disclosure” the iPhone 4 experienced a real impediment to an inventor’s securing a patent. Innovation Product development Technology' All’s well that ends well.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Kate had had a taste of entrepreneurial life — she was on the management team of ArtusLabs, the North Carolina-based software company that was bought by PerkinElmer in 2011 — and knew how “exciting it was to work at a start-up.” Managing yourself Career planning Professional transitions'

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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? This was a $1.2 Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

In 2011, the entire country of Egypt had a total internet blackout after officials ordered the country''s ISPs to flip a few switches; the Syrian government is now doing the same. Admittedly, fund managers cannot even explain the algorithms because the networks learn as they go and change algorithms accordingly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete. Steve Jobs failed miserably at managing openness at Apple in the 1980s. Let’s look at the key errors. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , a 2013 dollar has one-tenth the purchasing power of the 1950 version. That doesn''t have to be the end: Bitcoin already survived a price boom and bust in 2011. Economy Innovation Technology' This even though a dollar is almost certain to buy you less in a few years than it does now.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. This provision was extended through 2011. Implements a payroll tax holiday for workers in 2011. In 2011, workers will pay 4.2% Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011. .

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." Kirsten Gagnaire is the Global Director of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), launched in May 2011 by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that is the issue of how to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce. We have to remember that technology is merely a tool that helps us to understand and relate to others and our surroundings; it doesn’t in and of itself define our values. “How ‘Gen X’ Managers Manage”, in Osland J.S.,

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world.

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