Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 22, 2013

Ping Fu Ping Fu is the founder and CEO of Geomagic, which makes 3D software for design and engineering. She's also the author of a book called Bend, Not Break , which recounts her story of oppression as a young girl in Maoist China and how she grew up to be one of the foremost technology leaders in America. Copyright 2012.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction. My mailbox wonders why companies still don't know me well enough to send less junk mail. Applied Prediction.

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

NASA photo You sometimes hear astronomers, NASA officials and space engineers use the phrase "travel to the stars." They talk like this about space travel because they want you to buy into their dream of the future so you'll pay the taxes to support the billions and billions of dollars they need every year to pay for more technology.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Tony Wagner Scribner/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012) Why and how to nurture the creativity of all children As Tony Wagner explains, “This book is about how we can develop the capacities of many more young people to be creative and entrepreneurial. This [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. People went from printing pictures to sharing them online. No strategy is static.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

And I predict that leaders who get the whole story, and act on it, will reap unexpectedly better workplace morale in 2012, despite all the uncertainty and volatility of the global economic realities. They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. Bad news, right? But I'm not certain such surveys tell the whole story.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. Economy Education Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. Sure, it's an industry show, and the press here understands technology, but how do you think they will communicate about your product if all you give them is tech specs? For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Today it's rare to find a CEO who won't acknowledge the impact digital technology is having on their business. In a digitally driven economy, the preferred way for everyone to interact with a company is through internet technologies, such as a company's website, mobile interface, or Twitter feed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Most companies have been slow to react.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2012

Guidelines of phone use have significantly changed because of technology availability. That was a technological EON ago. Your phone holds technological mysteries and magic that can make your hours pay higher dividends once you master them. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Cellular phones are smart these days.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early weeks we learn that our product won’t stand up to the sanitation requirements of the industry and we’re presented with real engineering problems in design and materials, but these are problems we know how to solve. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Deming Lecture at the 2012 ASA Joint – Quality Improvement: From Autos and Chips to Nano and Bio” by Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology. One of the points Dr. Wu mentioned is Shewhart called common causes, chance causes, and special causes, assignable causes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

was the joyous cry that rang out across the central quad at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the night of August 5, 2012. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team. Landing on Mars is a huge engineering challenge. It was a wonderful moment for the normally staid engineering team.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Customer Need As a Catalyst For Purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Instagram had only 13 employees when it sold for $1 billion to Facebook in 2012, and Snapchat has approximately 350 employees. Look at WhatsApp, which had 55 employees (35 of them engineers) and reached more than 450 million users when it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. Smart headcount growth that optimizes technology is essential.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. was designed to protect the company’s earlier K-Cup technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images.

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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? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

workers say they are "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" with their work, according to Gallup''s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. In 2012, according to U.S. Redesign processes with sales tasks, not the technology, in mind. A stunning 70% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In 2012 a hacker built and revealed a simple device that can open Onity-brand electronic locks (which secure over 4 million hotel room doors ) without a key. Train engineers to apply existing systems-engineering tools to security threats. stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

The personal computer (PC) chip market that the company dominated for over three decades, and which accounted for the bulk of its sales during that period, is now in decline, and accounts for only 50% of revenues, down from 65% in 2012. Three lessons stand out – lessons that every technology company should heed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2016

Without knowing their place in Indian life, an outsider might take one look at their loud engines and open sides and suggest that rickshaws should be replaced with modern vehicles that are faster, bigger, and more comfortable. Fortunately, there really is an app — and other technology — for that. The rickshaw revolution.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. a year between 1964 and 2012 to only 2.1% Some are skeptical about whether technology can continue to deliver the rapid productivity gains it did in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

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. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As mobile devices and borderless technology networks like Facebook, Google, and Tencent increasingly connect billions of people around the world, everything about the pace, profile, and application of modern media is changing. In 2012, Amazon reported that one second of latency in page loading cost the company an average of $1.6

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

Corporate leaders — and especially large company CEOs — are finally realizing what their employees and customers already know: That using social technologies to engage with customers, suppliers, and even with their own employees enables their companies to be more adaptive and agile. Why the change?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

Two years ago, Swedish communications technology giant Ericsson found itself looking for a way to explain the value it saw in the Internet of Things. Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. The popular web browser Mozilla Firefox , the image format PNG , and Apache , the world's most popular web server, are all examples of open-source technology in common use. Everyone wants a little something for free.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

It's also how we should think about the way the Internet is developing, and about the way our choices in how we use technology are shaping this global brain. Vint Cerf, considered one of the co-creators of the Internet's architecture, wrote in a 2012 New York Times Op-Ed that "The Internet stands at a crossroads.

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