Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

As digital technology disrupted Kodak’s business, they held onto the film business as everyone was going digital. When we conceived AdKarma – an online advertising yield optimization service – we acknowledged that it was a completely new business model born out of technology and innovation. It was clear it needed a tribal approach.

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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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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. Strategic Planning Warning Flag 1 – Business Unit versus Goal-Based Planning. About the Author. Recommended Resources – I Have A Strategy, No You Don’t.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

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. in the September 26, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). Not all of these innovations will succeed.

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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 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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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. I’ve seen many organizations progress from blaming those nameless jerks in another department to working together toward the goal of better patient care.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Toward the end of last year, one of the first platishers, Say Media, announced it was selling off its publishing properties to focus on its technological platform. But these differences are largely cultural.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Frustrated by these limitations, the global information-technology service provider Atos, headquartered in France, sought an internal collaboration system that would do away with email’s “closed” form of communication. This community helped the clients recognize that they were working toward a common goal with Atos.

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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. The numbers were grim. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity.

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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. This is perhaps the most challenging (and exciting) element of a project like #GivingTuesday.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Cap and trade is projected to achieve nearly 20% of that goal by limiting emissions from the industrial, utility, and transportation fuels sectors — which account for roughly 85% of the state's greenhouse gas pollution. While leaders in Washington D.C We shouldn't read too much into it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising. ” For Joe Lezon, the ultimate goal is the coupling of data based on a customer’s online and in-store experience. Decision making Retail Technology'

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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. This is perhaps the most challenging (and exciting) element of a project like #GivingTuesday.

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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. To make progress toward any goal, it helps to track our behaviors. Own your time. Help others strategically.

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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. Clarify tasks and process, not just goals and roles. Leverage the best communication technologies. Could this be you?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. According to Prasad Setty, Director of People Analytics at Google, their goal is to have all people decisions driven by data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. If you didn''t cut the budget for innovation, technology, and product development over the past five years, good. Reset your goals and KPIs. But here it is midyear and the signals are decidedly more positive. If you did, then take action now.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

We recall compiling the case notes or sales projections just before the presentation meeting. Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

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? Share the notebook with the rest of the project team so you can collaborate on your research process and share your work in progress.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

An emerging suite of literature and research—including our 2013 Workplace Survey — clearly points to the power of choice and autonomy to drive not only employee happiness, but also motivation and performance. Take the technology workers in our survey, for example. Why are they so satisfied? Facebook is a prime example.

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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. With their goals aligned, the department was able to get rid of some of the hitches in the process, such as communication between siloed departments. The permitting time has since been nearly halved for key pilot 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. 3) What specific goals would they aim to achieve in a 9-month pilot? From these 109 applications, the board has selected a total 31 semifinalist projects in two cohorts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Whatever the goal, by the time the idea is ready to launch, the team is exhausted but thrilled to finally reap the rewards of all their hard work. Then the lawyers step in, ask questions, and kill the project — or reduce it to a shadow of its potential. Or maybe it’s to take your corporate profile into the stratosphere.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

One might think that technological connectivity has or will soon save us from the blight of loneliness. The organizers say their goal is to create “an uplifting interactive adventure that transforms this seemingly difficult conversation into one of deep engagement, insight, and empowerment.” Host a dinner for 15.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2013

democratized communication technologies like Skype) and more physical touch points (e.g. In their October 2013 HBR article on diaspora marketing, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict E.M. The knowledge and technology transfer stage, however, is where most developing markets are focused today.

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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

MARCH 15, 2017

Outcomes-based programs, known formally as health-contingent wellness programs, attach financial rewards to the achievement of certain goals, such as weight loss, reduced cholesterol, or number of steps walked. This figure is likely to decline as genetic testing technology improves and more vendors get into the market.

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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. The retail giant's powerful buyers, or merchants, now have a sustainability goal in their performance targets and reviews. Five Questions For 2013. on to 2013.

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