Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. Last month the supermarket giant Tesco announced a partnership with a technology firm Amscreen aimed at improving the targeting of its advertisements.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

At the end of a particularly long and grueling strategy meeting with the executive team of a major consumer services business, Alan, the chief executive officer, turned to me and said, “Living quarter by quarter is madness, but in a few years’ time people will laugh at us for developing three-year plans.” He was right. About the Author.

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Long-term Planning Chief Executive Officer Letter 50

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. Daniel Kahneman.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. Each participant was assessed with the Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (LEA), a 360-degree assessment tool measuring 22 leadership practices and more than 20 measures of effectiveness. To be sure, it’s not an easy task.

Organization 15

Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work.

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Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Executives who consider and discuss all four types of competition will uncover important insights, and such an analysis can help move your strategy forward. ” Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. In other words, the technology can make brokers and bankers irrelevant.

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Stress Insourcing Uncertainty Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

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. This bold strategic leap was, we found, in part facilitated by Nokia’s newly appointed board who actively attended to top managers’ emotions in 2012-2013.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

According to the International Labour Organization, workers in developed and developing countries are facing increasing strain at work. Researchers at the University of Buffalo found that stressors, big and small, help us develop the skills to face other taxing or stressful circumstances in the future. bettmann/Getty Images.

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Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S. technology companies as much as $35 billion in potential business. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2018

In many industries, especially in technology, you may feel “old” at 35 — even though you might continue to work full-time until you hit 75. In early 2013 I returned to the workforce in my mid-fifties as a senior exec with tech startup Airbnb. They fear becoming increasingly invisible, or even being cast aside.

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Diversity Emotional Intelligence Class CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Spurred by an aging population, increases in chronic disease, and technological breakthroughs, the electronic medical device market is poised to reach an estimated $398 billion in 2017. For example, in 2013, the average age of an MRI scanner in the U.S. Safeguarding your company in a complex world. Stay alert and informed.

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System CIO Health Care Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. As a group, the largest U.S. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

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. But more data in itself does not lead to better analysis, as amply demonstrated with Flu Trends.

Trends 8

Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. vehicles decreasing from 40% of total in 2000 to 17% in 2013), by destination (e.g., from 80% in 2000 to 50% in 2013), and by exposure to the economic cycle. Allow time and persevere.

Company 11

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

To understand more about these types of changes around the world, we developed an “index” to identify how a group of countries stack up against each other in terms of readiness for a digital economy. But our analysis revealed other interesting patterns. Take, for example, Singapore and The Netherlands.

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Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. The building blocks for a digital company are research and development, brands, organizational strategy, peer and supplier networks, customer and social relationships, computerized data and software, and human capital.

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Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Flipkart was ranked third among the world’s most valuable privately held startup companies, alongside stars such as Palantir Technologies and Snapchat Inc., according to a WSJ/VentureSource analysis. Only 19.2% In the first half of 2014, 26% of all online purchases in China were made on a mobile phone.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

There was similar, though less dramatic, variation across sectors as well: financial services, health care, utilities, and telecommunications were relatively welcoming to female leadership, while fewer women were found at the top in basic materials, technology, energy, and industrial sectors.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. (A First, let’s get our bearings.

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Company Insurance Call Center Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Under these command and control conditions, teaching looks more like automation then imagination.

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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Better analysis of those insights can improve marketing return on investment (MROI) by 10-20 percent and drive average profit growth of 14 percent.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

A recent analysis by my firm, Weber Shandwick, found that 80% of the chief executive officers of the world’s largest 50 companies are engaged online and on social media. For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. Develop a thick skin. NextGreatLeader.

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Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. Since many of these businesses come out of Silicon Valley it is easy to think the largest risk is the underlying technology or competition.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Clark recommends listing the “concrete skills you need to develop in order to be successful at pursuing your passion full-time.” Seek out training opportunities to help you develop the skills you need for your project. They “carved out time on nights and weekends” to do research and market analysis.

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

But it is worth brushing up on the basics of quantitative analysis, so as to understand and improve the use of data in your business. Companies are vacuuming up data to make better decisions about everything from product development and advertising to hiring. What assumptions are behind your analysis? Why data matters.

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Management Metrics Information Technology Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

A witty comment or botched response on Twitter can travel to Facebook and even news websites in minutes (think of the Oreo tweet during the Superbowl blackout of 2013 ). Unencumbered by an individual’s perception of a brand, automated analysis has the benefit of being fairer and more objective. Measuring empathy.

Company 8

Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Each environment corresponds to a distinct archetypal approach to strategy, or color in the strategy palette, as follows: predictable classical environments lend themselves to strategies of position, which are based on advantage achieved through scale or differentiation or capabilities and are achieved through comprehensive analysis and planning.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. Develop a Project Management Plan for the Pilot. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. Last July, after years of work, the Bureau of Economic Analysis declared that the U.S. The Kingdom of Bhutan was the first — and still the only — country to reject GDP as its primary measure and instead developed a Gross National Happiness index.

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GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? billion in 2013.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Lars is famous for that.

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CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Zerhouni, the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, Arab immigrants have made major contributions to American science and technology. We recently set out to remedy that, and our analysis suggests that Arab inventors play a major role in U.S. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S.

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Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 14