Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

While these enablers make the IoT possible, its long-term success depends on the use cases that help realize the economic potential of connecting billions of devices, either to improve quality of life or save money. Information & technology Internet' We believe this segment could generate meaningful revenue in the near term.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. 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.”

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

It gives us a reasonable sense of how successful at innovation different countries and regions are. 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. And it is certainly in the top ten.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

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.

Project 8

Project Technology Information Execution 8

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. In other words, they created a living lab of the Clinic’s largest emergency department.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

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. This has generally been a successful strategy for universities in both financial and strategic terms. Disruptive innovation Education Information & technology'

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Retail giant Target, for example, estimated its losses from a 2013 data breach at more than $250 million. In doing so, a company can cut in half the average time a successful attack goes undetected, rather than relying on annual reviews. All companies connected to the internet are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

Review 8

Review Training Execution Survey 8

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.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. The manager of a large analytics team at a big Internet company believes that removing analysts from business units and functions and centralizing them was critical to success. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

A clear one is that there are many factors, such as the economy or the desirability of your products, that can affect a company’s success as much or more than its digital capabilities. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 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. So the fundamental idea behind the success of digital companies (the increasing returns to scale) goes against a basic tenet of financial accounting (assets depreciate with use).

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Depreciation IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What successful companies are doing right. Mobile and location-based technology gave company executives a way to make the firm’s products more relevant to these customers without having to change the core business. Digital technology is changing the way companies work and the way customers expect them to work.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

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! It is easier for competitors to copy your successes with transactional data. Proprietary data don't guarantee success. But don't avoid this avenue on that score alone.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Retail 8

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. For more on running successful experiments, try these two articles. 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.

Management 16

Management Metrics Information Technology Analysis 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Throughout the world, it has become a proxy for success and for failure. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. It is a profoundly important indicator. This past Friday, the U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 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. ” And the road to success was in many ways the same. This was a $1.2

System 8

System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

But despite explosive growth and considerable promise, success has proved elusive for the vast majority of ACOs. In 2013, the second year of the Pioneer ACO program , just two of these ACOs accounted for more than $36 million in savings – close to 40% of the entire program that year. How did they do it?

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Cost Motivation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

To be successful at strategy through experimentation, adaptive firms master three essential thinking steps: they continuously vary their approach, generating a range of strategic options to test. They carefully select the most successful ones to scale up and exploit. . • Adaptive: Be fast. • Visionary: Be first.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. The successful ones have, at least. But even worse sociopolitical outcomes are in the cards.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The American Customer Satisfaction Index gives Internet service providers (the cable industry) a score of 65 for 2013 — the worst of any industry tracked — with hoping-to-merge giants Time Warner Cable and Comcast at even more dismal scores of 63 and 62, respectively. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

public school classroom, he approached the task with the mentality of a successful serial entrepreneur. Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world.

System 8

System Entrepreneur Telecommunications Policies 8