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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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. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

What’s the best way to get your passion project moving? So, whether you want to start a company that could become The Next Big Thing or you have a hobby that you’d like to spend more time on, here are some ideas to get your idea up and running. So, where should you start? What the Experts Say. Create a strategy.

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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'

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. Many hands go up. Again, many hands go up (although not always the same hands). This lack of understanding isn’t the fault of these individuals.

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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

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

MAY 28, 2014

But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used. Others suggest that a subset of innovation projects be aimed at entirely new markets , regardless of adjacency. Many students voted for the first scenario.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

But what really fueled #GivingTuesday was not technology tactics or whiz-bang applications; it was a mindset built around four principles, ones that can apply to many organizations seeking to use social media to create change. The movement bubbled up, flowed, ebbed and — thankfully, just at the right moment — surged.

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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

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

While we''re all familiar with the decline of Research in Motion, this oral history contains first-hand accounts of RIM''s glory days of innovation, followed by inglorious missteps. Oh, and an offer from then-up-and-coming star Justin Bieber to rep BlackBerry, an offer that was rebuffed by the marketing department.

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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. At Yelp and elsewhere, seeing these numbers was a wake-up call. The numbers were grim.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The $5 billion nonprofit system achieved this by embracing the following four tenets in a cost reduction approach that is aligned with core values in healthcare—enlisting the empathy, collaboration, and engagement that characterize the best care delivery. All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sales rose 300% in Georgia by the fall of 2010 and rose even more the following year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

But what really fueled #GivingTuesday was not technology tactics or whiz-bang applications; it was a mindset built around four principles, ones that can apply to many organizations seeking to use social media to create change. The movement bubbled up, flowed, ebbed and — thankfully, just at the right moment — surged.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. Left to voluntary action, system-wide reforms, such as the adoption of health information technology and new provider payment practices that lower costs and increase quality of care, will proceed with glacial slowness.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

What’s more, those that take this initial step are getting a leg up on AI’s future, since that step is going to be a prerequisite for everything that follows. What follows are some guideposts to help you put AI Lite to work. Roll up your sleeves. First, let’s get our bearings.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. At other accounts, prospective buyers weren't experienced with purchasing products.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). I constantly remind our employees to be afraid, to wake up every morning terrified. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline.

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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. “Now I will deliberately leave sentences just hanging in the middle and get up and go do something else.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In Ma’s case, this dream is not only about establishing a successful and sustainable internet company, but about the type of company that can accomplish this: The company [Alibaba] will remain a ‘start-up’ no matter how long it has been in existence. This will require big changes in both the leaders and those who follow them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. You add product families first, followed by business lines, each time addressing extra customer segments. As this phenomenon repeats itself, the diversified firm is born.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

As a result, the United States experienced five years of the lowest growth in health care costs ever in the 2009-2013 period — although an uptick in the rate in 2014 raises questions about what it will take to contain costs on a sustainable basis. We believe that the United States should pursue both strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

The man has a point, but only up to a point. It wasn’t crazy to think that a couple of these companies might end up as big and as profitable as Microsoft, and since it was hard to tell which ones it would be, high prices across the board made some sense. Bubbles arise if the price exceeds the asset’s fundamental value.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

Consequently, there are often many people, process, and technology challenges associated with the implementation or significant upgrade of such monitoring systems. Processes from which metric and report data is sourced are not rigorously followed. Technology Related Challenges. Every organization’s circumstances are unique.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Nearly five years ago, a show that followed the lives of inmates in a women’s prison shook up television. According to Netflix’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos , the company’s model makes it possible to rack up points through — rather than a handful of home runs — lots of singles and doubles.

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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. To build a successful measurement program like this one, follow these steps: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. After all, the company got its start from Sergey Brin and Larry Page’s NSF funded research project to catalogue the web. Innovating from the bottom up. Some of Google’s most popular products, such as Gmail, Google News, and AdSense, originated as 20% time projects.

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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. The following four give a flavor of the pilots’ breadth and depth.

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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. We also spoke of inevitability.

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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. In those cases, mid-level managers weren’t merely managing incremental change; they were leading it by working levers of power up, across and down in their organizations. Change leaders use a GPS to guide them toward their North Star.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Have you started imagining how cryptocurrencies could be used to shore up your company’s digital security? 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?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The Justice Department charges of gross negligence were filed before the judge considering whether to approve this private party settlement in order to ensure the issues were preserved for the BP-Department of Justice (DoJ) trial scheduled for January, 2013. No criminal charges have been filed against the company.).

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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

APRIL 2, 2014

But even Asness and Liew threw up their hands when it came to Hansen. It took us a while to line up a time to talk, in part because Campbell was working on an article about the Nobels for the Scandinavian Journal of Economics and wanted to finish that first. There’s a bad scenario where it doesn’t work out and you end up losing money.

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