Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2023

Definition of Data Storage Solutions Data storage solutions encompass a variety of technologies, tools, and platforms that businesses use to store, manage, and safeguard their data. By using a centralized storage system, enterprises can reduce their IT infrastructure and operational costs significantly.

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Power Efficiency Cost FAQ 86

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. The long-view trajectory of electric vehicles suggests a future where electrons will power more cars than carbon compounds. Education drives technology. Nigeria’s earning from crude oil is dropping because of America’s shale gas renaissance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The United States remains the world’s second-biggest manufacturing power after China overtook it only three years ago. Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT).

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Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 8, 2012

The values of the organization, (propagated by the founder/CEO) did not reward operational issues, or believe in customer feedback. The CEO had a certain vision of the world, and thought development resources should be concentrated on pushing the core technology, as opposed to the usability features requested by customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Individual companies are feeling the bite: analysts at Morningstar estimate that input costs at Tyson Foods will rise by $700 million — more than its 2012 net income. On May 26, Germany set a world record when it produced 50% of its electricity needs from solar power alone. It wasn't just energy. and plug-in sales up 228%.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. the technology research and advisory company. The number of attacks on critical infrastructure jumped from under 200 in 2012 to almost 300 attacks in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 11

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 In 2012, over 50% of dentists are women, as are 47% of medical students. Her response: a complete reinvention of her business, a new name, new technology and a reconfigured role ? million in 2011.

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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. These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. Three Images/Getty Images. market for personal computers.

Strategy 9

Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 9

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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Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

Risk Management 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

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% In the near term, improving operations and procurement is the most promising lever for higher productivity. We disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., As a technology advisor, the CUO would understand the benefits of different energy innovations and be able to make smart purchasing decisions.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new product or technology sells better to all stakeholders if people can be persuaded that it will disrupt the status quo. billion), NDS (the video software provider scooped by Cisco in 2012 for $5 billion), Playtika (the gaming platform bought by Giant Interactive for $4.4 But does the evidence bear out this belief? increments.

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Uncertainty Software Sample Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

For example, the hot technology of the moment, virtual reality (VR), was largely ignored by traditional funders after the disappointment of VR technology in the 1990s. Suddenly, virtual reality was no longer a forgotten ‘90s trend but had become a hot area of technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Companies have been striving to harness and leverage the power of their data assets for decades. That is the finding of a survey (PDF) and series of follow-up interviews conducted by NewVantage Partners with C-level executives and function heads representing companies and government agencies during the second half of 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Wholesalers do not have shopper data, and do not have sophisticated technologies or expertise in mining the data.

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Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

If knowledge is power, then predictive analytics promises the ultimate knowledge — that of the future. Such knowledge does not come easily, but the increasing density of digital information, deeper automated connections across companies, and increased storage and computing power create new options for enterprise leaders.

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Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

In the last few years, a more powerful dynamic has gained traction. For example, the two parties identified the challenge of national electrification and committed to work together to bring $10 billion of investment and 10,000 megawatts of new power online, along with local manufacturing and training.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. from 2012 through 2014.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

The global economy is in a massive transition from a fossil-fuel-based energy system to one using sophisticated renewable energy technologies. coal-fired power plants has been declining and coal use has dropped radically since 2007—a trend that is expected to continue. The writing on the wall for the coal industry is clear.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Training 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In 2012 Google embarked on an enormous research project. For example, two of the scientists at PARC, Dick Shoup and Alvy Ray Smith , developed a revolutionary graphics technology called SuperPaint. Smith would team up with another graphics pioneer, Ed Catmull , at the New York Institute of Technology. Create diversity.

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Innovation Team Diversity Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

” In a 2012 article for Harvard Business Review, Maxwell Wessel argued that scale, “one of the last bastions from the competitive storm,” is no longer profitable or safe. For a long time, technology gave big players a competitive advantage because no one else could afford to be big. At that rate, the number of U.S.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Industry Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are. In time, AI-powered crime-fighting tools could become a requirement for large businesses, in part because there will be no other way to rapidly detect and interpret patterns across billions of pieces of data.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. The Apple-Samsung battle shows that patent litigation can be a much broader and powerful strategy. AdvertisingAge reports that in 2012, Samsung increased its U.S. billion requested).

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

But together they account for more than $165 billion in purchasing power ( $110 billion in gift cards purchased, $48 billion in loyalty points earned, and more than $5 billion in product coupons redeemed). Over 10 million Starbucks eGifts, the digital version of a gift card, have been sent just since 2012.

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Brand Loyalty Retail Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

If you want to win their hearts and minds, you have to master the latest technology, assimilate vast quantities of data, engage and delight your customers, and deliver products and services that surpass expectations. And yet today’s top marketers are combining technology and teamwork to generate extraordinary results.

Marketing 11

Marketing Teamwork Technology Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

The central battle pits Apple against everyone and everything involved with Android, Google’s open source operating system. Here’s where the problem has become especially acute for information technology inventions such as smartphones and tablets. Innovation Tech industry Technology' And so Apple has.

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Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. That’s just a sampling.

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IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

It is estimated that they currently have about seven thousand of them (and Congress asked for about $5 billion worth of more drones in 2012). What makes it all that more interesting, is that those fictional numbers aren't even close to the staggering reality of how many drones are in operation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Venture Funding Industry Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

From 2002 to 2012, the impact of individuals’ task performance on unit profitability companywide decreased, on average, from 78% to 51%. The key difference is the degree to which reps have taken advantage of new technology (largely built into their CRM system) to share and learn from one another. Culture That Drives Performance.

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