Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Second, they’re inconsistent with the history of technology. Is big data just another IT project that can be run by a unit head? Technology' These are all danger signs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

But the Rockefellers’ move may have more impact, for a key reason: their stated commitment to transition the divested funds to clean energy investments. If the divestment movement can reallocate capital toward clean technology companies, that could have a far greater impact on mitigating climate change than divestment alone.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

But what if these social media projects were only scratching the surface of social media’s business value? In 2013, there was already executive commitment and discussion around turning internal social media projects into strategic imperatives owned by lines of business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. Several key lessons emerge when heavy commitments to digital capability development meet basic financial performance problems. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Emerging problems are flagged sooner; project leaders present their testing protocols and outcomes; and updated expectations are clearly communicated throughout the enterprise. Crap rolls downhill. Look deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Her company has the bold goal to attract and train hundreds of thousands of new networking professionals by offering certification courses in networking technology and other training resources. Last August, they pledged to hire 1,000 veterans and spouses of active duty soldiers by the end of 2013 - a noble commitment.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. Our most satisfying work comes about when we’re playing offense, working on projects that we ourselves initiate. In recent years, work has become infinitely more complex. Own your time. Help others strategically. ” 8.

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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. Commit to a communication charter. Leverage the best communication technologies. Clarify and track commitments. Could this be you?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

My Patent Portfolio Is Bigger Than Your Patent Portfolio Google's Growing Patent Stockpile MIT Technology Review Google, which is on pace to collect some 1,800 patents this year, appears to be committed to amassing one of the world''s largest patent portfolios. Not bad for a 24-year-old who joined IBM straight out of college.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

And they love to pursue them, deadline commitments or old strategies be damned. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three.

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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.

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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. It found that 6 out of 10 teachers went directly into teaching after earning their undergraduate or graduate degree.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project. This ensured their commitment to the effort and created support for tough decisions—even when those decisions directly affected their own bailiwicks. million by creating an internal facility for drug compounding and packaging.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

For many companies, the price tag and the commitment of resources are too high a hurdle. From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents. And they are , despite the enormous potential they bring to the marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. billion in mining projects since 2010. Wal-Mart, for example, aimed to double fleet efficiency between 2005 and 2015 through better routing, truck loading, driver training, and advanced technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

You can make 2012 the last year that you forget, if you this year you commit to using a digital notebook like Evernote. Here's an example: January: Focus on your top goals for the year by setting up an Evernote notebook for each of your major projects or areas of responsibility. October: Starting a new project?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. A fierce commitment to research. Like anything Google does, its Deep Learning initiative is rooted in its fierce commitment to science. After all, the company got its start from Sergey Brin and Larry Page’s NSF funded research project to catalogue the web.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Get Institutional Commitment. The board approved, and Erasmus’s next CEO – Ernst Kuipers – drove this forward from 2013. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team. This team must be assembled at the start of the process in order to provide multidisciplinary ownership and, therefore, commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. From these 109 applications, the board has selected a total 31 semifinalist projects in two cohorts. But it needn’t always be. Increasing vaginal births after Cesarean section.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The latter was a project I led after returning to Partners in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Where/how are people stuck?

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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. .”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. The permitting time has since been nearly halved for key pilot projects. For example, Gerald Wright, a vice president in technology services at Hewlett Packard, has shown himself to be a master at top-down, bottom-up and lateral mobilization.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

One of the key faults found in all these discussions on the differences between Millennials and the other generational cohorts is that they often differentiate generational values with respect to technological differences – in particular, differences in usage – as opposed to sociological ones. Available online at: [link] (2) Costanza D.P.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. Keeping the apparel theme, um, running, check out Nike's new shoe with FlyKnit technology. Five Questions For 2013. This is the focus of my next project.).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

economic and security commitment to the Asia-Pacific. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. Most economists believe that technology, innovation, and consumer tastes are more significant sources of change than is trade. companies have had to boost productivity with new technologies and supply chains, while offering new products.

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