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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Unfortunately, many of us have developed expertise in only one field (software engineering, information technology [IT], marketing, biotechnology, automobile manufacturing, the food industry, etc. For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g.,

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Samsung said at its 2014 investors forum it expects the global Smart Home Device market to reach $15 billion in 2015, almost doubling from 2013’s $7.8 has emerged as a leading adopter of smart meter technology for power utilities, approaching 50% penetration of 150 million total endpoints. Information & technology Internet'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. Health Information & technology Internet Knowledge management'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Since achieving first-year sales of $175,000 in 2006, it has increased that number by four orders of magnitude: in 2013, Etsy sold $1.35 In 2013 alone, Kickstarter users funded nearly 20,000 projects and committed nearly $500 million. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Innovation' cut of sales.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Instead, they could leverage new information technologies to reengineer, reorganize and radically streamline their production and service delivery. In 2013, corporate America will need to pay very close attention to this new paradigm.

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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. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' It is creating new opportunities that were only dreams a decade ago. Take a look at your business.

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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. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet' It is creating new opportunities that were only dreams a decade ago. Take a look at your business.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

But in 2013 it was comfortably beaten by Singapore and Hong Kong and by four other countries: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland. Let’s look at innovativeness. The data that goes into creating the Global Innovation Index is based on some 84 variables, covering over 140 countries. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

According to a 2013 CEB study , “only one in four HR organizations have effectively integrated their talent management practices…with the company’s strategic objectives.” A good example is Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

The truth is, unless all these people understand they own a piece of the problem and can be brought to deal with it together, you cannot manage information security. Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St. Marys during the fourth quarter of 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Government-led measures to reform health care such as the HITECH Act, which infused billions of dollars into improving the sector’s use of information technology, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), create a business case for performance improvement that never existed before. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. percent in 2013, earnings per share rose by more than 50 percent, and administrative costs declined from 13 percent to 10 percent. percent to 7.5

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is a conversation about the increasing importance of information technology and the role it must assume in every enterprise, regardless of size, industry or geography. Not only are there new systems, business and delivery models, types of information, technologies, etc., IT management ROA ROI'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. Disruptive innovation Education Information & technology' They’re quite good at it, on the whole.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Ultimately, businesses need to focus on the business problem and choose the technology that best addresses that problem. Tune in now to learn how you can make your IT projects successful in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Information & technology Marketing Social media' Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion.

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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.). Many conservatives still decry the ACA.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. Information & technology Innovation Strategy' Netflix''s first foray into original programming, the "House of Cards" series, has been a big hit (although the company doesn''t disclose ratings).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. decline on the back of a flat 2013 and +0.7% When the first quarter of 2015 revealed a 3.1%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In 2013, the business expanded further by launching the Luminar Audience Platform for buying targeted online audiences. The company that traditionally saw itself as a broadcasting group now sees itself as an integrated media and information technology company serving the Latino market. Making Money from Business Model Evolution.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

For example, when P&G was making its digital push in 2012 and 2013, it was already well ahead of most companies—and perhaps all of them—in the consumer products industry. With innovative information technology, however, executives sometimes lose their rational decision approaches.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Retail giant Target, for example, estimated its losses from a 2013 data breach at more than $250 million. All companies connected to the internet are vulnerable to cyber attacks. And the potential losses are significant.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents. A new version of ABIe will soon be taking queries directly from the customers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Unfortunately, health care as an industry continues hiring far faster than demand is growing, adding 119,000 new workers in the first half of 2013, for example, with little increase in patient volume. Fortunately, we anticipate demand for health care to grow in 2014, so to the extent that jobs are not added, productivity gains are possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

I’d love to say it’s simple to get started, but if you use the version of Outlook that I use — Outlook 2013 — you’ll need to navigate a rabbit’s warren of clicks and commands. It’s worth it. Go to the “Home” tab and click on the “Rules” drop down.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Only you have the specific transaction, "John Smith bought peas, bread, and grape nehi at 9:27 AM on March 11, 2013," and the tens of thousands like it each day! Even without a proprietary data structure, companies should still seek to create advantage through their content.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

For more on what analytics can be used for, read Thomas Davenport’s 2013 HBR article Analytics 3.0. In the 2013 article Keep Up with Your Quants , Thomas Davenport lists six questions that managers should ask to push back on their analysts’ conclusions: 1. Decision making Information & technology'

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Management Metrics Information Technology Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

This new wave of bringing production back home through robotics automation may be the single biggest disruptive threat to India’s $118 billion information technology industry. But over time technology is a far more reliable path to increased productivity. The threat is being taken seriously elsewhere in Asia as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. Innovative economists such as Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT have drawn attention to how the information technologies and services that now contribute substantially to economic dynamism just aren’t adequately captured by GDP. This past Friday, the U.S.

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