Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? But security?

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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. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet'

Engineering 9

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. The service gives drivers confidence, and that’s important for a driver who operates alone, often hundreds of miles from home. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Internet'

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? Yet huge opportunities exist in using digital technology to evolve your business model by rethinking your existing products, economic models, and digital assets. The business media have had no shortage of these.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

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. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 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

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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Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

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. As digital companies become more prominent in the economy, and physical companies become more digital in their operations, income statements too become less meaningful in investors’ decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

There, he introduced the contrasting notions of "infrastructure" and "proprietary" technologies. An infrastructure technology diffuses throughout the economy in support of numerous industries and, in time, becomes available to all. It is difficult to sustain a competitive advantage via infrastructure technologies.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Even in this new information age, not everything requires the razzle-dazzle of AI. These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. A new version of ABIe will soon be taking queries directly from the customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The former states that digital technology and robotics are advancing at such a pace that: “Professions of all kinds — from lawyers to truck drivers — will be forever upended. But over time technology is a far more reliable path to increased productivity. Technology' Companies will be forced to transform or die.”

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Outsourcing Technology Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Some 90% of companies’ cloud activity is attributable to individual employees and small teams, rather than corporations’ business-technology groups. It had been necessary for me to install a new operating system after they had picked up viruses while accessing sites that gave them clues on how to progress in their online games.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Policies Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change. A firm can be the first to apply a new technology or to identify and address a major source of customer dissatisfaction or a latent need.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

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. Two personal stories illustrate these points. They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse.

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