Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

While these enablers make the IoT possible, its long-term success depends on the use cases that help realize the economic potential of connecting billions of devices, either to improve quality of life or save money. In Europe there is a target for 80% of households to have smart meters by 2020. Australia and China.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” Glass may yet turn out to be a great consumer success. Still others offer different deciding factors, like whether management is supportive. They’re not alone.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

Strategy 8

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The plan is expected to outline policies intended to ensure that China continues to see average annual GDP growth of 7% through this decade, the growth rate required to meet Premier Li Keqiang’s stated goal of doubling GDP by 2020. If the party leaders do tackle these reforms, success is far from assured. What Needs to Change.

GDP 8

GDP Fixed Assets Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In 1984, 37% of these degrees went to women vs. just 18% in 2013. By 2020, there will be an estimated 1.4 By 2020, there will be an estimated 1.4 Only 400,000 computer science students are expected to graduate in 2020, leaving a wide talent gap of 1 million. The numbers are just as bleak for blacks and Hispanics.

Industry 8

Industry Diversity Class Engineering 8

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.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". Five Questions For 2013. In reality, both views were right. In the U.S., economy commodity prices have become.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10