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? “Our

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2013 . That executive decision began the downfall of the company. Related articles.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

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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. Use technology to identify and address barriers. High-density RFID readers were installed in the ceilings.

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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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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

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

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. As of July 2013, there were 50 private communities. The Launch. What features would make the site inviting, accessible, and useful?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Who are these makers if not the revivers of dying or, in some cases, long extinct technologies?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Accompanying these peer economy companies are others (like Zipcar) which simply leverage technology and lower transaction costs to make flexible renting a viable alternative to asset acquisition.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. This is a management failure, not a technological problem. Information & technology Managing uncertainty Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. Consumer technology offers direct access to patients. With unprecedented access to information, patients are being empowered in new ways.

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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' Why is repair service so maddening? Build and share a transformative vision. 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' Why is repair service so maddening? Build and share a transformative vision. Take a look at your business.

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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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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.

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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. ” 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

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. But in 2013 it was comfortably beaten by Singapore and Hong Kong and by four other countries: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland. Well, it’s not about the people.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Their conclusion: these projects should be implemented differently from other IT projects and should be based on understanding how people create and use information. Ultimately, businesses need to focus on the business problem and choose the technology that best addresses that problem.

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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. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s. Information & technology Marketing Social media' Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. This may not be a big surprise; many of the early Big Data technologies such as the Hadoop Big Data system came from Internet companies themselves such as Yahoo and Google. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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

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

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

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.”

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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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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. In addition, there are new technologies aimed at protecting data: Data hashing is a technology that creates a hash, or specific code, to identify a given dataset.

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