Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Here is some advice for carrying out such a program: Create a multidiscipline team. and Patricia E.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. If you follow his advice, you’re going to wait too long. When I read it, I thought, well, there’s something here that’s tingling my spider senses. LARRY: Sure.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

Delegation 8

Delegation Business Model Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products. How Google manages.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Consider science and technology, fields in which information is doubling every nine months and decaying at a rate of 30% a year , thereby rendering as much as 85% of a person’s technical knowledge irrelevant in five years’ time. With one expert, you’ll get one expert; with a newcomer, you get access to many more.

Team 11

Team Learning Curve Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Win on merit.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

democratized communication technologies like Skype) and more physical touch points (e.g. In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. The knowledge and technology transfer stage, however, is where most developing markets are focused today.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

One might think that technological connectivity has or will soon save us from the blight of loneliness. It’s a critical source of empathy and tolerance — the glue that keeps relationships, projects, and organizations together. But it seems that we feel more isolated today than ever. Host a dinner for 15.

Project 8

Project Report Conference Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. How else did the companies projecting the greatest ROI from Big Data differ from underperformers? Internet companies face many digital interactions, so they need Big Data technologies and people to sort through their click-stream data.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. Here are nine overarching themes that encapsulate their advice for navigating a rapidly accelerating informational landscape and achieving peak performance at work. In recent years, work has become infinitely more complex. Own your time.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Tips Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. We offer three pieces of advice. Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Not just conceptually in terms of work-life balance, but also physically, with the introduction of wearables and other employee-tracking technologies. Tesco, the UK-based retailer, uses wearable technology on many of the people working in their warehouses to keep track of product orders and help boost efficiency. In 2013, at the U.S.

Company 8

Company Long-term Bureaucracy Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

I had one face-to-face meeting with the team lead for the technology development this past December.". On June 10, 2013, I launched a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. The result was an outpouring of experience and advice for making virtual teams work. Leverage the best communication technologies.

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Team Shaw Commitment After Action Review 9