leaderCommunicator

MARCH 3, 2015

The highly publicized “Zero Email Initiative” at the global technology firm Atos is just one glaring example of what’s possible for companies looking to significantly curb email use. We are business technologists, so it’s our mission at Atos to be a front runner in this technology age.”.

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Ryan Technology Globalization Document 60

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market?

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Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

While workplaces are swiftly becoming more and more advanced in cloud computing, using social media for marketing purposes, and generally becoming au fait with modern technology, there is one area which is sadly lacking when it comes to technological advancement. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Succession Talent Management Software Human Resources 64

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If integrated and organized correctly, social collaboration technology can become a game-changer that empowers both employer and employee. It improves the use of resources and efficiencies. In addition, onboarding can become more efficient with a faster learning curve established for new employees. About the Author.

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Productivity Products Learning Curve Media 86

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Your company’s hiring managers are working tirelessly to write accurate job descriptions. A Career Builder survey of more than 6,000 hiring managers, worldwide, reveals some eye-opening global stats about just how much a bad hire can wreak company havoc. Weed out early on; technology helps. And, it’s costing your company big.

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Quality Pre-Employment Screening Talent Management Reference 68

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. The first step managers need to take is to assess their organization’s purpose and vision.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

But that doesn’t mean that new technologies aren’t going to usher in a lot of disruption to the financial system. Traditional economists (and, yes, that label could well describe both of us) often ignore a crucial separation between money (the “what”) and the payment technology (the “how).

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Banking Technology System Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Early adopters in these verticals are using the IoT to pioneer new product areas and to find efficiencies that save money or reduce demand for resources. Cars are becoming more connected with each new model, driven by infotainment, navigation, safety, diagnostics, and fleet management. Information & technology Internet'

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Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

More US bank branches closed in 2013 than ever before. Rather than going the way of Tower Records, leading banks are reinventing themselves with innovative mashups of digital technologies and physical facilities, a combination we call “digical.”. More than 85% of retail banking transactions are now digital. In our view, no. Here’s why.

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Banking Retail Open-book Finance 10

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

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. Three Images/Getty Images. Minimize Pain.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work.

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Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Just as America''s visa rules enabled the rapid growth of India''s information-technology companies over the last two decades, the Obama Administration''s recent drive to reform immigration regulations could prove to be a turning point for them. In the same way, India''s information technology giants must bite the bullet today.

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Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. But the savings go beyond efficiency. And management is paying attention to many other opportunities. This cuts down the time tremendously.”

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams. But the savings go beyond efficiency. And management is paying attention to many other opportunities. This cuts down the time tremendously.”

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. Consumer technology offers direct access to patients. These technologies currently affect a small share of the population.

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Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? years in 2013 from 60.3 Digital transformation is about a careful transition between the old and the new, balancing risk management, value creation and long-term sustainability, which are precisely the key roles of boards.

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Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It''s hard to argue that any computer or technology can create that kind of emotional connection or weave that kind of story. What we can''t deny is that technology is now penetrating the marketing industry like never before. It is art for money''s sake. Traditional advertisers will tell you that not much has changed. Rinse and repeat.

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Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

But in the world of new "sharing economy" models that generate efficiency gains, theirs is just the tip of the iceberg. True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. This "reengineering" of consumption is a natural consequence of the ongoing consumerization of digital technologies.

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Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Until now, the goal has been to standardize and optimize transactions among these components to reduce costs and achieve efficiency. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Yes, data helps us dematerialize and find efficiencies in all aspects of our economy. But we have to do it new ways now, with clean technologies. billion people.

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Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies.

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Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." So many of the elements," she pointed out herself, "are simply good management procedures. It is a great economic waste.".

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Restructuring Disruptive Innovation Health Care Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

To be fair to the CIO, CEOs have created this problem by emphasizing efficiency and cost-cutting over value creation. It is clear that CIOs must lead their organization in discovering and then providing balance between efficiency and efficacy. Only 46 percent of CEOs think their CIOs understand the business.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. The business media have had no shortage of these. And only 15% said digital was helping them to create new business models.

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Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

What's striking about Fast Company's 2013 list of the world's 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. First, he says, the focus of an established firm is to execute an existing business model — to make sure it operates efficiently and satisfies customers.

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Innovation Company Business Model Bottom-up 8

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.

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Company Long-term Bureaucracy Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2015

It's not just about producing more widgets per hour, but about maximizing the efficiency of each working day, which includes nurturing relationships with clients, co-workers and family. Modern culture, with all of our technology and time-saving gadgets, has left us with a distorted view of productivity. Tosi on April 1, 2013.

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eBook Efficiency Open-book Quality 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 Technological challenges. Rollout in late 2013 was rocky for the federal exchange (and for some state exchanges when they first launched). Some technological challenges remain for all marketplaces in 2015, but in Rhode Island we have largely worked through them. Burwell, the U.S.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

The same diminished economic frictions, along with new business models, organizational structures and enabling technologies, have accelerated the appearance of new, unanticipated competitors with new value propositions or the old value propositions presented faster, better and/or cheaper. IT management' Structural changes.

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CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8