Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. IT companies, in particular, need to be deliberate in getting out in front of change or risk being surpassed by advancing technology. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

institutionalized mistrust, resignation, or resentment), technology addiction (which can make it difficult for some people to actually talk to others), or a simple incompetence for speaking and listening. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This lack of listening can be the result of degenerative moods (e.g.,

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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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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. According to the latest figures, women are better educated than ever, earning almost 60 percent of all college degrees. The Pay Paradox. The Double-Bind Paradox.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Young companies located in these hubs—particularly technology firms—are able to attract technical talent and maintain close proximity to their investors and mentors. These factors have led to other cities taking advantage of their smaller tax bases and educated labor forces to attract more cutting-edge companies to their areas.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

However, since then, some employers have been lowering education and experience requirements in an effort to clear the backlog of open vacancies. Using a new database from Burning Glass Technologies containing 83 million online job postings between 2007 and 2014, across all U.S. project management), specialized skills (e.g.,

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This has certainly been the case at HeroX, a spinout from the XPRIZE group that was created in 2013 with the express wish to make it easier for organizations to create the kind of challenges for which the XPRIZE have become famous. This lack of work applicable skills is seeing a shift in the way skills are taught in a wide range of fields.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. Those who make the decisions and control the purse strings at legacy higher education institutions. Most of the attendees from post-secondary institutions were professors or deans of schools of education. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

One Brookings Institute analysis projected that teacher actions could spread to another 11 states. To them, nothing less than the education profession is at risk. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. What is professionalism exactly?

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. Creating a professional virtual network that would be high quality, participatory, and trusted required some trial and error both in terms of the content and technology.

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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

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

In an essay that was never formally published but became something of a cult favorite among finance professors and some finance practitioners, Asness looked at Cisco Systems and concluded that even if the most optimistic projections about its future growth came true, it was still priced to disappoint current investors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Blindsided by news that Cars Toons was behind schedule, coauthor Brandeau had to figure out how to finish both projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Willing to Take Chances.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

All of this change will require new technologies that enable faster, more secure ways for machines to share and process data. The question confronting Cisco and other companies is how to do that – how to speed the process of innovation, especially as technological change threatens to upend our current business models.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Then the lawyers step in, ask questions, and kill the project — or reduce it to a shadow of its potential. A leading professional services firm signed up 1,000 people to Slack groups before confidentiality lawyers closed down the project because it was cloud-based. I hear these stories all the time. Where are the risks?

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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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Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

billion in 2030 (out of a projected global population of 8.3 In Turkey and Brazil, as in Tunisia and Egypt before them, political protest has been led not by the poor but by young people with higher-than-average levels of education and income. Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2013. billion in 2009 to 3.2

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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. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. Arab inventors show some technological specialization in information and communication technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Last week the House Committee on Education and Workforce of the U.S. 1313 ), was introduced by Representative Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions should soon consider similar legislation.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. ” Education. In Britain, education levels were apparently the strongest predictor of voting patterns in the Brexit referendum — even though age and income levels tended to get more play in the press.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world. And since 2013, the share of U.S. They helped drive reforms in the FCC’s “E-Rate” policy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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. manufacturing has adapted and grown, not declined.

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