Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Recognizing that corporate responsibility can offer a company a competitive advantage today, we became interested in IBM as a pioneer in establishing a skills-based volunteerism initiative that also influences its talent and professional development strategies. So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Recognizing that corporate responsibility can offer a company a competitive advantage today, we became interested in IBM as a pioneer in establishing a skills-based volunteerism initiative that also influences its talent and professional development strategies. So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects.

Intellectual Capital 13

Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? ” Next, make a timeline based on what you think you can reasonably accomplish toward your project in the time you have. As you chip away on your project, continue to give your job the attention it needs. So, where should you start? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. and compete successfully. Finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

” Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. For instance, numerous smartphone apps have been developed that do not solve any actual problems. For instance, companies can have a project where they collaborate with users to develop or refine a specific product or feature.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Perhaps the HealthCare.gov gang that couldn’t code straight had never heard this software mantra. Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. That’s what serious systems developers do. One can’t be sure. Crap rolls downhill.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. Together, we can develop a tool kit that tech companies can use to create a more dynamic and inclusive industry. The numbers were grim.

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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. A lot of times, especially if it’s a piece of software, it’s going to change many, many times in a very short period of time. Getting involved, thanks again to the same technologies. It’s not expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

That suggests that they may be trying to persuade firms to buy the device and develop applications for it. Sure enough, in April Google announced “ Glass for Work ,” an initiative aimed at developing more work-related apps on the Glass platform. Glass may yet turn out to be a great consumer success. Glass is different.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Earlier this year, we projected that sales will hit $6 billion by 2018. There are hundreds of other companies making packaging, equipment to extract cannabis oils from the plant, inventory software, you name it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. This Emergency Department-Clinical Engineering Learning Laboratory (ED-CELL) team comprises physicians, nurses, other health professionals, systems engineers, scientists, informaticians, IT personnel, and project managers.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For instance, the Solar Team are working on a solar-powered family car, whereas Team CORE are working to develop an oven that can recycle batteries. “We want to make it approachable for any organization, including smaller challenges and projects that incorporate a variety of approaches.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

For developers, that may be Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer site specifically for programmers. ” The company was already developing content, targeted specifically at recruits, that demonstrated its “culture and the type of company we want to be in 1, 5, and 10 years.” So venture out. physicians are members of.

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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. Can we do better?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” Software applications that run automated tasks are called “bots.” In 2013, technical glitches caused a three-hour stop at the Nasdaq. It will disrupt entire industries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

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. Average compensation in 2013 across the advanced industries sector was $90,000—nearly double that of workers in other industries. They employ 12.3

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings. And now it’s happening with digital transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

embarked on a quest to develop the ultimate patch to the nasty bugs of humanity." You can see them most evenings at Noisebridge (pictured below) — a collective space for learning and doing projects together whose members'' main guiding principle is to "be excellent to each other.". Noisebridge photo by Dylan Hendricks, 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

Consider this now familiar view from the field: "I''ve run a virtual team for the past 18 months in the development and launch of [a website.] The software was developed in St. I had one face-to-face meeting with the team lead for the technology development this past December.". I am located in Toronto, Canada.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

It sometimes seems as if Frederick Winslow Taylor’s unfinished project is around right the corner: A time-and-motion utopia in which managers can track almost any aspect of employee behavior on a second-by-second basis. In 2013, at the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

And there are many in the blockchain community who feel that ICOs are a long-awaited solution for non-profit foundations that want to build open-source software to raise capital. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. The listening ‘ear’, an array of sensors in a 500-pound ‘birdcage’ dome that sits on the sea floor or on subsea equipment, was developed at the GE Measurement and Control site in Bergen, Norway.

Industry 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2016

Although GGRC’s staff often develop great empathy for individual clients, going to heroic lengths to help clients navigate the administrative maze, the system was not designed to make life easy for clients or staff members. It was part of a larger effort by GGRC staffers to rethink what was possible for their clients and themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects. IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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